August 17, 2013 – Harwich, England

We arrived in Southampton, England on April 20, 2013. We arrived in Harwich, our last stop (not counting the ports we will stop into on the cruise home) on August 17, 2013. Between April 20 and August 17, we tracked our ventures on a map. Below, if you can see the blue lines, the map tracks our adventure through southwest England, up to the Scottish Highlands, down to Yorkshire and the Lake District, back to Liverpool, the ferry to Belfast, bus to Dublin, tours to the west coast of Ireland, ferry to Holyhead, train back to London, day train to Dover and day train to Canterbury then a car and driver to Harwich! Whew!!!

Below, Elaine found even more flowers to photograph!

Left, the high lighthouse in Harwich and the smaller, lower lighthouse below.

The port of Harwich. Somewhere out there the Brilliance of The Seas, our Royal Caribbean cruise ship, will arrive on Monday to begin our Baltic cruise to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Talien and Gutenberg Island.