~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Life Afloat ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

  By land, this trip would have taken just under 5 hours, which of course for us was an overnight. It's also the only passage of this to...

 Less than an hour's drive from where we docked, was Muncaster Castle , that had been lived in by the same family for 900 years, and the...

  Whitehaven was the kind of town where I'd expect the ship to do well. Medium-size and a little bit isolated, so we were a big story wh...