Our ship embarking date and sail has again shifted out, due to the DNV inspections. Late yesterday, we were informed they have to make one additional retrofit on the Ship propellers in dry dock and this work will take 10 days; therefore, our new boarding and departure date is June 15th out of Belfast. This propellor change had been previously grandfathered by DNV with prior ship owners. It was due to be done at our next maintenance stop and thankfully the parts had already been on order. Villa Vie filed a grievance with DNV regarding this, but bottom line is, we have to do now. Villa Vie ownership has been fantastic in communicating all this to us. Their staff has scrambled today to come up with a contingency plan to give us all an alternate to camping out in Belfast. There are roughly 300 passengers waiting to embark, most are in Belfast now and others like me are scattered around. 

1) Keep the rental car I have from Belfast and continue to stay in Cork at Edel's or visit more of Ireland. Edel's 

    commitments in Cork start again on 6/8. But I could stay here until 6/15.

2) Return to Belfast, swap out some of my luggage, turn in rental car and go on trip to Canary Islands with fellow          

     passengers in waiting, Villa Vie is working out all-inclusive details now. 

3) Return rental car in Belfast or Dublin and get a flight to Hamburg Germany and go visit my friend Tom who was                 supposed to join me on cruise on 6//16 in Hamburg. Villa Vie has yet to announce where we will be sailing on the           new embarking date of 6/15, so not sure if my planned catch up with Tom will be impacted.

Right now, I am leaning to option #2. The Canary Islands will be more beach like weather / locale, and it will be good to start connecting with the other passengers. Also, I don't expect any real beach spots in the planned itinerary much before late September and everyone knows I am a beach lover at heart. They have signed me up for all-inclusive now, for planning purposes, but I am still reserving option 3 if it looks like Hamburg, Germany is being removed from itinerary.

Suppose to have more details later tonight or tomorrow.

So for now, stay tuned!

R