2015 Holland America Grand Voyage

Declassified Route Archive · 2015

The Grand Voyage Files

Seventy-six field reports from the Iberian coast, the Celtic fringe, the Baltic, Scandinavia, the Arctic Circle, and the long route into the United Kingdom.

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Mission Brief

The first Grand Voyage segment was a 28-day Iberian, Celtic, Nordic, and Baltic Explorer. Then came the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Arctic Circle, the North Pole, polar bears, the Northern Lights, and a long United Kingdom layover for stadium sailing in Portsmouth.

British Isles Video Arctic Circle Video America's Cup
Archive Month 01 July 2015 9 field reports
01 Portsmouth-America's Cup World Series Race 02 Portsmouth, ACWS 03 The U.K.-Mind, Body and Sea 04 Portsmouth-America's Cup with Oracle Team USA Trai... 05 Portsmouth, UK-Chasing The Fastest Sailors InThe W... 06 Portsmouth, UK-America's Cup World Series 07 Bon Voyage AmeriCAN Dreamers 08 Being There-With Holland America 09 Edam, Netherlands- Dutch Cheese Market
Archive Month 02 June 2015 37 field reports
01 Western Norway-Hardangerfjord 02 Vøringsfossen and Sysen Dam-Team Ionic 03 Eidfjord Passage, Norway's Ecstasy 04 Flåm Mountains-Primary Colors 05 Flåm, Norway-Free For All-H2O 06 Ålesund, Norway-Everyday Epiphanies 07 Norway-Red, White and Yellow Houses 08 Trondheim-I Love Ewe 09 On Top of The World 71°10′21″ 10 Honningsvåg. Norway-Ready, Set, North Cape 11 Tromsø, Norway-Gateway To The Arctic 12 Narvik Mountains, Norway 13 Narvik, Norway 14 The Arctic Highway 15 Geirangerfjord, Norway-H2OMG 16 Troldhaugen, Norway-Edvard Grieg 17 Bergen, Norway-Fjords 18 14 Day Northern Explorer Cruise-Norway 19 Haarlem, Netherlands-Globetrotting 20 Flanders Field, Belgium-A Place To Remember 21 Normandy, France Awe and Gratitude 22 Limerick, Ireland-Tyres 23 Foynes, Ireland-Path of Moist Resistance 24 Galway, Ireland-Claddagh Rings 25 Killeybegs, Ireland- 50 Shades of Green 26 @Irish Sea 27 Dublin-Guiness Storehouse-Intoxivation 28 Dublin, Ireland-Irish Central 29 Pembrokeshire, Mid-Wales-Sun Day 30 Saint Just-By-Rosalind, UK 31 Falmouth, UK-Cornish Coastline 32 Guernsey Channel Islands 33 Portland UK-Rocks 34 English Channel-White Cliffs of Dover 35 Edam-Smile and Say Cheese 36 Holland-Keeping In Touch With The Dutch 37 Copenhagen-The Little Mermaid and H2OMG
Archive Month 03 May 2015 30 field reports
01 Stockholm Marathon- How Swede It Is 02 Helsinki, Finland-Olympic 03 The Hermitage-A View With A Room 04 Petersburg, Russia-Painted In Vodka 05 ST Petersberg-Ain't Much Sunshine-Only 60 Days 06 Tallinn, Estonia 07 Berlin, Germany Alpha Bravo, Check Point Charley 08 Kiel Canal 09 Hamburg- Neuengamme Camp 10 Hamburg, Germany-The Beatles 11 Elbe River, Germany 12 Amsterdam-A'Dam 13 Brugge-500 Beers 14 Brugge-An unFlemished Reputation 15 Portland, U.K. Stone 16 Brest, France-Quaint Quimper 17 Being There-France 18 Haute Médoc Region, France 19 Bordeaux, France-View of The Left Bank 20 Porto, Portugal - Bom Dia 21 Lisbon, Portugal-My Dutch Bike 22 Lagos, Portugal-A Wind From The North 23 Gibraltar-Monkeys 24 Like A Rock - Strait of Gib 25 Córdova, Spain 3 Cultures 26 Alicante, Spain- Knight and Day 27 @Sea-Mallorca 28 Civitavecchia, Italy-Crows Nest 29 Rome Sweet Rome, Italy 30 2015 World Cruises

Closing Transmission

The official explanation was simple: I worked on ships.

The unofficial explanation was more complicated. I was collecting worlds, one port, one photograph, and one field report at a time.

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