They call this a holiday?

[Tony Taylor]

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NOT FOR ME THANK YOU! Either as a passenger or crew.

[Johnny Kieran]

Totally agree Tony. We do a lot of cruises, or we did, getting a bit cheesed off with em these days. It's the port days we enjoy most, when everyone goes ashore. The boats nice and quiet, plus loadsaroom for sunbathing.

[John Arton]

Tony
Guess this is hutigurten cruises up and down the Norwegian coast. Wouldn't mind doing it if only for the scenery, don't think there are too many passengers on those ships.
When I was sailing most I ever did was 3 ports in 2 different countries in just over 24 hours.
Rgds
J.A

[Johnny Kieran]

That was the good thing about cargo boats before containers came along, always a few days at least in most ports. Often a couple of weeks, or even more on the NZ coast. South America was a week here, another week there. On cruises these days you'd be lucky to get a quarter of a day in port, in at 8am and out at 4pm.

Well, a third of a day anyway

[Tony Taylor]

Tony
Guess this is hutigurten cruises up and down the Norwegian coast. Wouldn't mind doing it if only for the scenery, don't think there are too many passengers on those ships.
When I was sailing most I ever did was 3 ports in 2 different countries in just over 24 hours.
Rgds
J.A

Well John, in my last job I was in Norway very regularly on business and have been up and down it numerous times. The scenery is quite startling and very impressive but after many lengthy car journeys it tends to get a bit of same same and when anyone asks what its like a brief description would be - rock, trees and water.
My advice for a quick visit would be fly to Bergen from Newcastle, spend some time there as the old town around the harbour is very interesting, then take the ferry to Stavanger, now that is well worth the effort, its fairly cheap and has quite a few stops on the way with some great views.