British Isle Cruise 2017 Photo Review

Thanks for posting! Your pictures bring back memories. We did cruise "British Isles" 2 years ago and we stayed in London for 3 days also. I'm looking forward to reliving our cruise through your great review and pictures.

Thanks for your pictures, they are great/ We did the British Isles back in 2004 and are going again next year for our 50th. We are looking forward to seeing the British Museum,, we've been to most of the other attractions.

Great pictures! We did the British Isles Cruise two years ago in May and it was our favorite cruise too! Loved every port and really fell in love with Scotland. I could easily do a back to back on this itinerary because of the port intensive nature of it. So much to see and do in each port.

We used the Princess transfer from the Victoria Coach Station to get to the ship.

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Sailing away.

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We arrived in Guernsey early before most of the people came ashore. We had no problem getting onto one of the early tenders even though we didn’t have a Princess excursion booked.

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The harbor.

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Castle Cornet Lighthouse.

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Castle Cornet. We had this mostly to ourselves being early off the ship.

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We booked a photography tour with Guernsey Photo Tours. http://www.guernseyphototours.com/ Our guide Mark was extremely knowledgable about the history of the island and had very good photography tips on this tour. Highly recommend. The rest of our Guernsey pictures were all taken on this tour.

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Guernsey is very beautiful.

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Les Hanois Lighthouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Hanois_Lighthouse

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The tender ride back to the ship. the weather was changing.

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Back on board we had dinner at Sabatini’s and really liked the changes to the menu. The presentation of the deserts always inspire a photograph.

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Cruising into Cobh is very scenic.

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Our chariots await. We had booked the cruise excursion tour with Paddwagon Tours. https://www.paddywagontours.com/Shore-Excursion-For-Cruise-Ship-Passengers-In-Cork-Blarney-Kinsale-and-Cork-City-Tour They did a decent job in taking us around and letting us decide how we wanted to spend our time at the sites. We were late getting into port so our schedule was adjusted, Paddywagon Tours did fine with this. There never really is enough time.

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Our first stop was at Charles Fort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort_(Ireland) We had 10 minutes to get off the bus and snap a couple of photos. I think I would have wanted to spend more time here then walking around the shops on Kinsale.

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Our next stop was Kinsale for a lunch break and wandering.

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After Kinsale we headed to Blarney for the castle and more shopping/wandering.

The Tree socks of Blarney Castle.

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Love your photos.

Keith

We arrived at Blarney Castle in the afternoon. We had around 90 minutes to do what we wanted. Since the wait to kiss the Blarney stone was an hour we chose to walk the grounds which were fabulous.

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I get a little artsy with my photos so bear with me.

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The grounds of Blarney Castle.

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The Rock Close.

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We used our last few minutes to browse around Woolen Mills store.

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Back in Cobh. This was my last picture here next stop we had 2 days in Dublin.

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The Rock Close.

 

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We used our last few minutes to browse around Woolen Mills store.

 

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Back in Cobh. This was my last picture here next stop we had 2 days in Dublin.

 

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Lol! My husband and I are in your picture of the Woolen Mills. We are in the lower left, he has on a black hat and I have on a blue shirt. We enjoyed this cruise very much, thanks for posting the pictures.

Fabulous photos!!!!! Wonderful narrative. Can't wait for more. My sister and BIL are on this cruise right now. :)

Cheers, Denise

I see multiple photos that are (to me) Princess photo contest winners. I really hope you submit a few ---good luck, and thanks for your kaleidoscope of colors!

Tom

The streets of Dublin were definitely entertaining.

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Lots of great architecture also.

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Ne’er do wells might be here.

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I’ve really been into street photography lately but you can probably tell.

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Our first day in Dublin was on a Sunday and I was wondering what ever will we do. Lucky for us we found rural pub tours to save the day. https://ruraltours.ie/ We met Shane with Rural Pub Tours and off we went on our liquid adventure. First stop was the Merry Ploughboy Pub.

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Bottoms up at the Merry Ploughboy Pub.

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Its the cider talking.

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Next stop is the Blue Light Pub.

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They had live music playing outside.

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And plenty of pub atmosphere on the inside.

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Last stop on the pub tour was Jonnie Fox’s, Irelands highest pub.

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They also had live music.

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Everyone was having a great time at all the pubs. Highly recommend Rural Pub Tours if it tickles your fancy or your just really thirsty.

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Once our pub tour ended we had 1 more pub to go. http://irishfolktours.com/ We booked the Food, Folklore, and Fairies dinner at the Brazen Head Pub.

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The Dinner Theatre was held above the Brazen Head and I believe it may have been all Cruise Critic members. It was well worth going to if you have the time.

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Next up Dublin day 2

Loving it!

Wonderful photos!

Love the photos. Can't wait to see what else you did. We did this cruise July 24.

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Amazing job Chris, thank you.

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Such beautiful photos! We are doing a Norway cruise next year. Could you please tell me what kind of camera you use?

Such beautiful photos! We are doing a Norway cruise next year. Could you please tell me what kind of camera you use?

As a photographer, I can tell you it isn't the type of camera. This photographer has an exceptional eye!! :)

Cheers, Denise

Love, love, love your photographic eye! Looking forward to more pics and taking this cruise next May.

It is definitely the photographer's eye that is important but from my experience a good camera helps. Sometimes photoshop as well :)

I would love to know what camera you are using as well. Recommendations are good.