There is a storm north of here the Captain (correctly) believes we’d like to avoid. Instead of casting off at suppertime, as planned, we will overnight here in port and sail on northward tomorrow morning. It is hoped we will therefore avoid the worst of the big waves as we cross the Bay of Biscay en route to Portsmouth and then to Le Havre, from which buses will take the ambitious to Paris for the day. As a consequence we have eliminated a planned stop at Falmouth on the south coast of Britain. This degree of schedule flexibility to avoid anticipated bad weather is unusual in my experience, unique to Viking? Maybe so, in any case, I approve.
Much of the Bay of Biscay is relatively shallow and thus produces dramatic waves which have sunk many’s the ship in days past. We’ll see what today brings.
