I recently came back from a 2 week cruise in Norway. Norway was beautiful and we saw some stunning sights as well as catching a glimpse of the northern lights. This was my first cruise and in some ways I found it a little restrictive. It was difficult to try much local cuisine because we were never in port late enough to have dinner and if you were on a shore excursion then you'd miss lunch as well. The ship itself was great although we did have some mishaps like a burst pipe in our cabin in the middle of the night, a couple of rough nights at sea, and a listing incident so severe that a grand piano went flying and broke a woman's ankle as it knocked her over. That said, the food on board was good, the entertainment was excellent, and the staff were faultless. I would do another cruise one day...but now it's ticked off the list, I'll be concentrating on some more land-based adventures!
