A few nights aboard

“Magellan”

Day 1 - Amsterdam

Day 2 - Hamburg

Day 3 – at Sea

Day 4 - Helsingborg

Day 4/5 - Copenhagen

Day 6 - Aalborg

Day 7 - Sea

Day 8 arrive at Tilbury

CMV’s Scandinavian Cities & Fairytales cruise, departing Tilbury on 10th July

Magellan was purchased by her currently owners in Spring 2015.

She started life as Carnival’s HOLIDAY, later traded for Ibero as Grand Holiday before CMV took over the vessel

The cruise started at Tilbury

Lifeboat drill

View from the cabin

Former HMS Wilton, now Lee-on-Sea Yacht clubhouse

Wreck of Richard Montgomery

4am next morning, out on deck

Approaching the locks at IJmuiden

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Arrival at Amsterdam

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Day 3, in the Elbe approaches

Welcome to Hamburg

Early morning Day 4, leaving River Elbe

Island of Helgoland in the distance

Arrival at Helsingborg

Landskrona (above) and Copenhagen (below) in distance

Late evening arrival at Copenhagen

Ferry URANIABORG seen at the Island of Ven, in Oresund

Along Limford, at Aalborg

Site of the former shipyard at Aalborg (birthplace of Magellan, 30 years ago)

Back out into the Baltic

Frederikshavn, with Absalon in view

Color Fantasy at distance, returning to Kiel from Oslo

Somewhere off the Danish coast next morning

In the Thames Estuary

Svitzer London helps to berth Magellan at Tilbury at the end of the cruise

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