(NOTE - There's no menu selection for Oslo, so I hope the deliberately wrong selection of Osaka will ring enough alarm bells for people to notice which was the actual port of embarkation.)

INTRODUCTION

This report is intended to be read alongside the photos from this cruise, which can be found in my Webshots album (http://community.webshots.com/album/140741580OdzpCX) for this cruise. At the end of the album there are also scans of the daily planner for the two days of our cruise for which they were produced (there wasn't one for disembarkation morning). You may also find Brandis' photos (http://www.brandis.org/fotogalerie/Jewel04) useful to look at because they show some things that I write about here, but of which I haven't posted photos. I've tried to include some links to relevant photos of mine from specific points in this report. Read more