{"id":214,"date":"2016-06-06T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-07-18T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:09:40","slug":"in-the-north-sea-heading-for-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/in-the-north-sea-heading-for-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"In the North Sea heading for NewCastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Disney Magic and having a great time!<\/p>\n<p>Currently we&#8217;re nearing the end of our first day at sea on the Magic. Today was an &#8216;at sea&#8217; day and relatively quiet. The weather has been excellent. We had a chocolate and wine tasting this morning. Fun, interesting and tasty.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been meeting folks on the cruise this time. I guess we&#8217;re becoming a bit more gregarious this time around. We grabbed dinner with a number of folks who had been on the pre-cruise facebook group and have seen several of them around the ship since then.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve taken a few pictures, mostly sunrise and ships on the horizon (and a bunch from Dover and London before we sailed out). We saw a huge wind farm this morning while chatting with a couple we had met at the dinner and I grabbed a few shots of that. Currently my outgoing bandwidth is limited (pay per meg with a first level limit of 100 MB) so I&#8217;m going to keep the picture postings down until I get home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to keep posting as things progress and may extend entries during the day as more happens.<\/p>\n<p>Getting ready for formal-ish night tonight. We didn&#8217;t bring full formal wear as our weight and bags were limited in order to make getting here sane.<\/p>\n<p>A few shots from the last few days in reduced size.<\/p>\n<h3>Deep in the castle ramparts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8064.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"217\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/in-the-north-sea-heading-for-newcastle\/20160604-20160604-357a8064\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8064.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8064.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8064.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8064.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Beauty among the ancient stones<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/in-the-north-sea-heading-for-newcastle\/20160604-20160604-357a8093\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1465038946&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;300&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20160604-20160604-357A8093\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?fit=474%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"20160604-20160604-357A8093\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604-20160604-357A8093.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The view from our room in London \ud83d\ude42<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160603-20160603-357A4707.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"219\" 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Currently we&#8217;re nearing the end of our first day at sea on the Magic. Today was an &#8216;at sea&#8217; day and relatively quiet. The weather has been excellent. We had a chocolate and wine tasting this morning. Fun, interesting and tasty. We&#8217;ve been meeting folks on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/in-the-north-sea-heading-for-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the North Sea heading for NewCastle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-disney-cruise-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EWhb-3s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}