Cruise Day 2 Goteborg Aborted

After studiously planning for the day ashore we were woken by the announcement that the weather was too rough for the ship to berth. The captain had chosen to cancel the stop in Goteborg and instead we were en-route to the next port - thus having a full day on ship. In response we elected to sleep in! Luckily there was nothing of note that we had planned for this stop. It was a long way between ports at this stage, we had to sail between Denmark and Sweden. In doing so we went under the bridge known as the Great Belt's - where there was only 9 metres between the top of the ship and the span of the bridge. We went through without slowing down which was quite a sight. We went to the port lecture for Tallinn, which was the first useful one of the series on this cruise. For the others he omitted much of the local advice that we particularly needed (e.g. knowing that the Palace in Oslo was having major ground works would have spared us a wasted hour). Very glad we'd had a loan of the equivalent given on a different cruise back at home. There is definitely such a thing as "cruise life". After a couple of days on board I felt myself returning to it. While I'm not big into the "travel" part of these holidays, having a settled zero maintenance base in our cabin, food on tap, plenty of places to walk/rest yet never be far from base really does allow all the stresses of normal life to just vanish. Plus, every day there is the novelty of a new city/country/culture to experience. Plus there is the tension/excitement of having the absolute deadline requirement of returning to the ship. As both of us are the planning type that gives us a nice puzzle to solve for each port of call. I can imagine some years later coming back on the exact same tour and perhaps instead just going to one feature per port and then sitting in a cafe watching the patterns of the locals before strolling back to the ship. As you might gather, I don't think there is a limit to how much one could cruise thus - having the means is the only barrier.