<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:49:14.214Z</updated><title type='text'>The Big Ships</title><subtitle type='html'>A blog about cruise liners in Reykjavík harbour</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072412810424833</id><published>2006-02-23T19:47:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T19:51:22.006Z</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, September 14, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.holiday-kreuzfahrten.de/"&gt;M/S Mona Lisa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/mona_lisa011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/400/mona_lisa011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/SP1.html" target="_blank"&gt;Simplon Postcards -&lt;br /&gt;The Ship Postcard Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072412810424833?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072412810424833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072412810424833' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072412810424833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072412810424833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/wednesday-september-14-2005.html' title='Wednesday, September 14, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072402233239931</id><published>2006-02-23T19:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:05:55.390Z</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, September 10, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cruise.co.uk/external.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uk.ncl.com%2Ffleet%2Fjewel%2Findex.htm&amp;return=/confirm.php&amp;amp;operatorid=7" title="external link"&gt;Norwegian Jewel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/norweg4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/norweg4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...was here yesterday. Didn´t see her, because I was not home, just read about her in the paper, where there was something about her (they have started imitating me and my interest in those ships, it seems ;) )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.residensea.com/"&gt;The World of Residensea &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/pship24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/pship24.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2004/07/24/pship24.xml&amp;amp;sSheet=/property/2004/07/24/ixptop17.html" target="_blank"&gt;The World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://newmedia.medill.northwestern.edu/global/globalarticlepage.asp?article_key=354" target="_blank"&gt;The World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.traveltraveltravel.com/cruise_worldcruisespecials.htm" target="_blank"&gt;The World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.extravagancemagazine.com/posh/cruises.htm" target="_blank"&gt;The POSH World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cruises.about.com/library/news/blnews030313a.htm" target="" _blank=""&gt;The World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.condohotelcenter.com/alerts/residenseaalert.html" target="_blank"&gt;A Floating Condo Hotel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.templetons.com/brad/ship.html" target="_blank"&gt;Ship of (RICH!)Modern Nomads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This remarkable cruise ship was in Sundahöfn, Reykjavík.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072402233239931?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072402233239931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072402233239931' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072402233239931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072402233239931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/saturday-september-10-2005.html' title='Saturday, September 10, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072352611766207</id><published>2006-02-23T19:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T19:38:46.116Z</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday, August 30, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;!-- Begin .post --&gt;    &lt;a href="http://www.voyagesofdiscovery.com/" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discovery&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;     &lt;/h3&gt;                  &lt;p&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/discovery1150ppi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/discovery1150ppi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...was in Sundahöfn today, now it has left...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072352611766207?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072352611766207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072352611766207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072352611766207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072352611766207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/tuesday-august-30-2005.html' title='Tuesday, August 30, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072341683823614</id><published>2006-02-23T19:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:35:53.980Z</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, August 27, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.saga.co.uk/travel/cruises3/sagacruisinghome.asp?from=leftnav&amp;bhcp=1" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saga Ruby is in Sundahöfn again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.saga.co.uk/travel/cruises3/sagacruisinghome.asp?from=leftnav&amp;bhcp=1" title="external link"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/thumb_ruby.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/thumb_ruby.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                             &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072341683823614?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072341683823614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072341683823614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072341683823614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072341683823614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/saturday-august-27-2005.html' title='Saturday, August 27, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072331456530342</id><published>2006-02-23T19:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:32:38.140Z</updated><title type='text'>Thursday, August 25, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=de&amp;amp;u=http://delphin-cruises.com/webs/delphin/menue/startseite/start.htm&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddelphin%2Brenaissance%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%2" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Delphin Renaissance&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/schiff_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/schiff_.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...is in Sundahöfn today&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=de&amp;amp;u=http://www.derkreuzfahrer.de/infos/delphin/delphin.htm&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3DDelphin%2BRenaissance%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DFaw%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG" target="_blank"&gt;About&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;amp;sl=de&amp;u=http://www.kreuzfahrttreff.de/schiffe139.html&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3DDelphin%2BRenaissance%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DN" target="_blank"&gt;About&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=de&amp;amp;u=http://www.abenteuerreisen.de/sp/sp35/sp35__12.htm&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3DDelphin%2BRenaissance%26hl%3Den%26hs%3Dwub%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG%3Cbr%20/%3E" target="_blank"&gt;Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/mainimg-blackprince2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/mainimg-blackprince2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fredolsencruises.com/fredolsen/process/fleet/fleet_index/ship=blackprince.html" title="external link"&gt;The Black Prince&lt;/a&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship" title="external link"&gt;Wikipedia: Cruise ship   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/toty.cruise.ship1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/150/toty.cruise.ship.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/ship%200107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/225/ship%20010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072331456530342?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072331456530342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072331456530342' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072331456530342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072331456530342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/thursday-august-25-2005.html' title='Thursday, August 25, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072308100303569</id><published>2006-02-23T19:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:26:38.856Z</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, August 17, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.saga.co.uk/travel/cruises3/sagacruisinghome.asp?from=leftnav&amp;bhcp=1" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saga Rose is in Sundahöfn today...&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;     &lt;/h3&gt;                  &lt;p&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/Saga%20Rose.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/Saga%20Rose.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;24528 grt&lt;br /&gt;Built 1965 at Forges &amp;amp; Ch. de La Mediterranee - La Seyne (1366)&lt;br /&gt;IMO: 6416043&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bergenships.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Foto: Erik Ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cruisereviews.com/misc/SagaRose1.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Review of Saga Rose September 2001&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Sagafjord.html" target="_blank"&gt;Postcards of Saga Rose (ex-Sagafjord)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.passengershipsociety.com/sagarose/sr_rev1.htm" target="_blank"&gt;A Visit to Saga Rose, photos and review 2003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072308100303569?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072308100303569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072308100303569' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072308100303569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072308100303569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/wednesday-august-17-2005.html' title='Wednesday, August 17, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072285286444282</id><published>2006-02-23T19:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:20:53.536Z</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday, August 09, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;!-- Begin .post --&gt;    &lt;div class="post"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;!-- End .post --&gt;&lt;!-- Begin #comments --&gt;&lt;!-- End #comments --&gt;&lt;!-- Begin .post --&gt;                                        &lt;a href="http://www.costacruise.com/B2C/USA/Default.htm" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Costa Europa&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;     &lt;/h3&gt;                  &lt;p&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/costaeuropa403.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/costaeuropa403.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...lies in Reykjavík harbour "Sundahöfn" today.&lt;br /&gt;Here is the &lt;a href="http://www.cybercruises.com/costaeuropa.htm" target="_blank"&gt;story&lt;/a&gt;  and a description of the Costa Europa.&lt;br /&gt;...she left at 18.15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/4428.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/200/4428.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sundahöfn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072285286444282?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072285286444282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072285286444282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072285286444282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072285286444282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/tuesday-august-09-2005.html' title='Tuesday, August 09, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072274666568998</id><published>2006-02-23T19:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:43:54.593Z</updated><title type='text'>Monday, August 08, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.fredolsencruises.com/fredolsen/process/fleet/fleet_index/ship=blackprince.html" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Black Prince&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;     &lt;/h3&gt;                  &lt;p&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/mainimg-blackprince2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/mainimg-blackprince2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;The Black Prince&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.fredolsencruises.com/fredolsen/index.jsp?fp=true" target="_blank"&gt;Fred. Olsen Cruise Line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is in Reykjavík harbour at the "&lt;a href="http://www.backman.is/mapofrvk/part7.html"&gt;Miðbakki&lt;/a&gt;" today.&lt;br /&gt;Black Prince &lt;a href="http://www.cruiseserver.net/travelpage/ships/fo_prince.asp" target="_blank"&gt;rating&lt;/a&gt; by CruisePage.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/midbakki.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/midbakki.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Miðbakki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/H0331.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/200/H033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Reykjavik harbour "Miðbakki", viewing south towards the oldest part of Reykjavík, the town center, with the small pond and the domestic airport (built by the British during WW2) far back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072274666568998?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072274666568998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072274666568998' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072274666568998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072274666568998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/monday-august-08-2005.html' title='Monday, August 08, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072100210991493</id><published>2006-02-23T18:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:47:38.836Z</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, July 30, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;!-- Begin .post --&gt;    &lt;a href="http://www.rssc.com/ships/ship.jsp?code=NAV" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"The Seven Seas Navigator" leaves Reykjavík  tonight...&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;     &lt;/h3&gt;                  &lt;p&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/navigator21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/navigator21.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; In the six-star tradition of Radisson Seven Seas Cruises, the Seven Seas Navigator is destined for distinction. Occupying the uppermost niche in cruising, she offers her 490 guests an unusual level of luxury. From her all-suite, all-ocean-view accommodations to her signature cuisine to her superbly attentive staff and peerless service, she has few equals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.anitavacation.com/articles/cruise/navigator071803.shtml" target="_blank"&gt; Anita Vacation.com´&lt;/a&gt; review of The Navigator:&lt;br /&gt;(July 18, 2003)&lt;br /&gt;"She was to start life as the Cold War research vessel Akademik Nikolay Pilyugin; however, she was never completed. Left an unfinished hull she was resurrected in 1999 as Radisson's m/s Seven Seas Navigator, she now boasts all the qualities expected of a six-star luxury liner. During a recent 7-day New York City to Bermuda voyage, I discovered while Navigator is designed for the demanding upscale traveler, the atmosphere on board is far more relaxed than other deluxe cruise ships."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/4428.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/200/4428.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.backman.is/mapofrvk/part14.html"&gt;Sundahöfn&lt;/a&gt; (Sunda-harbour)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072100210991493?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072100210991493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072100210991493' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072100210991493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072100210991493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/saturday-july-30-2005.html' title='Saturday, July 30, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072088523732466</id><published>2006-02-23T18:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T18:54:45.240Z</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, July 27, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;!-- Begin .post --&gt;    &lt;a href="http://sagaruby.com/" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;M/S Saga Ruby&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;     &lt;/h3&gt;                  &lt;p&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/04fc22_sagaruby.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/320/04fc22_sagaruby.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cruise ship &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"M/S Saga Ruby"&lt;/span&gt; was formerly known as &lt;a href="http://www.cunard.com/"&gt;Cunard&lt;/a&gt;’s elegant M/S Caronia and before that as "&lt;a href="http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Vistafjord.html#anchor82433" target="_blank"&gt;Vistafjord&lt;/a&gt;". She was built for &lt;a href="http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_shiplist.asp?co=nalaa" htm="" target="_blank"&gt;Norwegian America Line&lt;/a&gt;, completed in 1973. She was recently purchased and renamed "Saga Ruby" by &lt;a href="http://sagaruby.com/"&gt;Saga Shipping&lt;/a&gt;. After a multi-million pound &lt;a href="post-edit.g?blogID=12042435&amp;postID=112249717012516090"&gt;refit&lt;/a&gt; she left for her inaugural cruise from &lt;a href="http://www.southampton.gov.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;Southampton&lt;/a&gt; on 1 March, 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was in &lt;a href="http://www.saga.co.uk/travel/cruises3/crItineraryDetail.asp?itineraryID=722309FA-AD15-45B5-A5B949E14FFE18B3&amp;amp;amp;dayno=2&amp;tb=&amp;amp;sel=1&amp;bhcp=1" target="_blank"&gt;Reykjavík Sunda-harbour&lt;/a&gt; today, but has now left continuing her &lt;a href="http://www.saga.co.uk/travel/cruises3/critinerary.asp?itineraryID=722309FA-AD15-45B5-A5B949E14FFE18B3&amp;amp;sel=1&amp;bhcp=1" target="_blank"&gt;voyage to Canada and the USA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072088523732466?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072088523732466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072088523732466' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072088523732466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072088523732466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/wednesday-july-27-2005.html' title='Wednesday, July 27, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16725843.post-114072043811923935</id><published>2006-02-23T18:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T20:15:50.850Z</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, July 20, 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kreuzfahrt.reise-cafe.de/aidakiel04.htm"&gt;Schön!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/AIDA%20blu%206%20b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/400/AIDA%20blu%206%20b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one, the  cruiser AIDAblu from Germany, was here too, sitting in the part of Reykjavík harbour just below my house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                         &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lehmkuhl.no/eng/index.cfm" title="external link"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Beautiful!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lehmkuhl.no/eng/index.cfm" title="external link"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/1024/ACF3FD8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/22/5117/400/ACF3FD8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This ship, the Statsraad Lehmkuhl from Norway, was in Reykjavík harbour last weekend.                             &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://themilleniummouse.blogspot.com/2005/07/beautiful_20.html" title="permanent link"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16725843-114072043811923935?l=thebigships.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/feeds/114072043811923935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16725843&amp;postID=114072043811923935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072043811923935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16725843/posts/default/114072043811923935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thebigships.blogspot.com/2006/02/wednesday-july-20-2005.html' title='Wednesday, July 20, 2005'/><author><name>Greta Björg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16630548263324806053</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1502/157/160/3gretahippi2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
