Cruise route guides and port guides for the Northern Europe.
From the temperate fjord country around Bergen up across the Arctic Circle into the auroral oval, where the Northern Lights appear most reliably. Port guides for Bergen, Ålesund, Trondheim, Tromsø and Honningsvåg, the science of aurora…
A circle around a country larger than Ireland but home to fewer than four hundred thousand people, calling at towns…
The shortest serious cruise you can sail from Britain: out of Southampton on a Friday evening and into a foreign…
The rare cruise that leaves Southampton and, without a flight, strings together Belfast, the Hebrides, the Northern Isles and the…
More national capitals than any other route in Europe, Copenhagen to Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn and Riga in a single week,…
Akureyri lies at the head of Eyjafjordur, sixty miles short of the Arctic Circle, and the ship ties up within…
The Passenger Terminal Amsterdam sits ten minutes' walk from Centraal Station and twenty from Dam Square, giving ship passengers an…
A city remade in a generation, from the Harland & Wolff slipways to the bars of the Cathedral Quarter, with…
Cobh was Titanic's last port of call, and the 123 passengers who boarded on 11 April 1912 left from the…
The most-called cruise port in Northern Europe, equally a day stop and a fjord or Baltic turnaround. The thing to…
One of the most rewarding capitals to spend a single day in: a compact Georgian centre, the Book of Kells,…
One of the most walkable capitals in Europe, the castle on its crag above the Old Town and the Georgian…
Falmouth sits on the third deepest natural harbour in the world, which is why it has been a working port…
The most rewarding cruise call in Poland, once you clear the logistics: the quay sits out at Westerplatte, a short…
The gateway to Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde: most passengers take the train into the city for the free…
Hamburg has three cruise terminals strung along the Elbe, and which one you berth at changes the day entirely: HafenCity…
The calmest of the main Baltic capitals to read from a ship: a clear grid and fast, English-signed transport make…
Holyhead is on Anglesey, and the island is a gateway rather than a destination: Caernarfon and Beaumaris, two of Edward…
Invergordon is a working deepwater port on the Cromarty Firth with very little to detain you in the town itself,…
Ísafjörður is the capital of the Westfjords, a peninsula so far off the beaten track that Iceland's ring road never…
One of the most walkable cruise terminals in northern Europe: the Ostseekai sits at the head of the fjord, minutes…
Skara Brae was lived in five thousand years ago and is older than both Stonehenge and the pyramids at Giza,…
The smallest and most easily walked of the Baltic calls: the quay sits inside the city, a short walk from…
Le Havre was flattened in 1944 and rebuilt in reinforced concrete by Auguste Perret, and the result is now UNESCO-listed,…
Lerwick is closer to Bergen than to Edinburgh, and Shetland's Norse inheritance is plain in the street names and the…
Liverpool ties up at Princes Parade directly in front of the Three Graces, which makes it one of the very…
Portland Port sits at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast, England's only natural World Heritage Site, where 185 million…
Reykjavik berths ships at Skarfabakki, three kilometres from the centre, which makes the walk into town a genuine decision rather…
The most walkable of the eastern-Baltic capitals: the Passenger Terminal sits right on the Daugava embankment with the Old Town…
St Peter Port is one of the loveliest arrivals in the British Isles: a tiered granite town rising from the…
A capital spread across islands where the distances feel far shorter on foot and by ferry than they look on…
The most concentrated Old Town on the Baltic run: the harbour sits a short walk, or one quick tram, from…
One of the most intact medieval towns in northern Europe, on the Swedish island of Gotland. A short walk from…
The one Baltic call you can finish with sand on your shoes: the cruise centre opens onto a resort village…
Zeebrugge is a container port with nothing to detain you, and everyone aboard is going to Bruges, 15 kilometres inland,…