Le Havre, France

Today definitely didn't go as planned. We were suppose to be docked around noon in Le Havre but an announcement from the captain woke me up around 11. The dock was pull of protestors who had even gone as far as swinging cranes out to block us from docking. At that point the announcement was to let passengers and crew know that we were sitting just inside the port limits waiting to see what happened when the police arrive. An hour later he made a second announcement that the police were not going to be doing anything about the protestors and the police were telling us to leave. So we left and have just very slowly been making our way to Southampton. After some google searching I learned that it's a strike involving pensions and a lot more then just our docking has been affected.

Amsterdam was the main port this cruise so the passengers didn't seemed to be bothered by the fact that they missed Le Havre. A lot of crew were very disappointed they didn't get to go to Paris though.Read more