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That was quite funny with Mark and the Royal Palace Guard! Make sure you watch his every move in the future! Great photos of the guard and around the city. That was not a pleasant experience by the elderly man in the Persian Garden! I'm sure this was the highlight of your cruise so far!
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oh my goodness, that guy in the Persian Garden! I would NOT have found it so funny if I was in the room with him though. Yuck! I was also going to say perhaps his wife is hard of hearing and didn't hear the snoring, or is immune after so many years? If Mike was snoring like that in public you can bet he'd get a jab from me to wake him up/shut him up.
Same here! It's bad enough if you have to put up with snoring, but for anyone else to have to endure it as well - definitely not!
Stockholm has so many streets that surprise me - it looks a bit like Paris, or your photos from Brussels too! I think I'm saying it looks more European than I thought it might.
Yes, I can definitely see elements of both cities in it. I think it is probably more European than Scandinavian.
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Ending your adventures by relaxing in the Persian Garden sounded lovely. Until the very end. For crying out loud, that's just so wrong.
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That was quite funny with Mark and the Royal Palace Guard! Make sure you watch his every move in the future!
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Lovely pictures along the waterfront! The Royal Palace is quite impressive! Mark is lucky he didn't get hauled off to the dungeon The Persian Garden sounds like a nice relaxing way to end your day.....and then Mr. bodily noises came along!
The palace is beautiful and so neat to get up close photos of the guards. Definitely interesting in the Persian Garden this time thanks to the old man.
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Thursday 9 June – part nine: those are slightly weird animals…
We made our way over to the Oceanview Café, and my goodness, it was like the entirety of the Eclipse had descended in there. It was absolutely packed. I guess this is where everyone was then…
I got some cheese and biscuits, although I had a long wait for it. There were two staff members on that pod, and one just completely ignored everyone waiting. There were about five or six of us in line, so that was really frustrating. He just got on with replenishing his own section, which I found downright rude.
As it was so packed inside, we headed to get one of the tables outdoors. It was a little cold out there, but it was bearable for a while. We got a couple of glasses of wine to go with our food. Mark had got some cookies, and they looked so good that I went to get a couple. As we were about to leave, I suggested taking a Bailey’s back to the room, and Mark suggested adding a couple of cookies to that. Ok – good plan!
We headed back to the room and spent the next couple of hours there. We sailed away just after 5:00pm, and just like this morning, we’d be following this ship…
It wasn’t long before we were back to the beautiful scenery again, albeit we were now seeing a different side of the archipelago.
I found the animals on this ship to be slightly weird, to say the least.
I decided it was about time we put the tripod we’d bought with us to good use, and we got some shots outside on the balcony…
We headed out to get dinner around 6:00pm, and made our way over to the Oceanview Café, as we were keen to try out their dinner offerings…
I was particularly keen to try their sushi – and they had a good selection, and it was good quality too.
I also got some desserts, but with the exception of the chocolate cake on here, I left everything else, as nothing was particularly good, which was a shame.
I also had some ice cream, but the only flavour I liked this evening was mint. It wasn’t good as far as sweet things went on this buffet.
It was tough getting photos through the tinted windows here. Mark had earlier said they needed to clean the windows, and we’d seen them doing it as we left the ship, but unfortunately they let them dry naturally, so they streak everywhere.
Nice photos of the scenery as you head to your next destination. The dinner offerings looked good, but sorry to hear about the desserts!
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Make sure you watch his every move in the future! 
Great photos of the guard and around the city. That was not a pleasant experience by the elderly man in the Persian Garden! 
I'm sure this was the highlight of your cruise so far! 
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oh my goodness, that guy in the Persian Garden! 
For crying out loud, that's just so wrong.
I could've understood it if there were signs out, but in fairness to him, there weren't....
The dinner offerings looked good, but sorry to hear about the desserts! 
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