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Melodies of the Rhine Inside Guest Speaker Joanna Macpherson e h T ISSUe TWeNTY FOUR • WINTeR 2016 INSIDe Melodies of Spotlight Guest Speaker the Rhine on Arran Joanna Macpherson By appointment to HM The Queen Provision of cruise holidays on Hebridean Princess All Leisure Holidays Ltd, trading as Hebridean Island Cruises THE HEBRIDEAN TIMES CONTENTS News in Brief Ilkley Literature Festival 4 Crew News Historic Castles and Glorious Gardens 5 New Guest Speaker View from the Bridge Captain Trevor Bailey 6-7 Spotlight on Arran 8-9 Melodies of the Rhine 10-11 Adrian Finnerty To Sea Again 12-13 John Noorani Meet the Team 14-15 Caz Palmer, 1st Officer 12-13 10-11 Competition 16 14-15 2 Cover image: Red Deer, Scotland WINTER 2016 Welcome to the Winter 2016 edition of The Hebridean Times As the festive season approaches we reflect on what has been another very successful season. Hebridean Princess has returned to her winter home in Greenock and will soon enter dry dock for her annual refurbishment. As many of our crew return to their homes for a well-earned rest, our engineers are hard at work as they spend the winter servicing and undertaking essential maintenance to ensure that everything is shipshape for our first cruise in 2017. Our Captains are also kept busy over the winter season as they become involved in itinerary planning for 2018, ahead of the brochure being launched in the spring. Highlights of the 2018 season will include a return to the south coast of England, the Channel Isles and the northern coast of France for a series of exciting cruises, including new visits and destinations. We are constantly striving to keep our itineraries fresh and appealing to both new and returning guests, so our 8-9 Scottish cruises for 2018 will also include a number of new themes and maiden ports of call. This issue of The Hebridean Times includes a feature on the Isle of Arran, a regular port of call in our spring and autumn cruises on the Clyde and, for those of you who are interested in cruising the great waterways of Europe, guest speaker Adrian Finnerty looks forward to the Melodies of the Rhine cruise which he is accompanying in May next year on board Royal Crown . I should like to thank loyal guest John Noorani for his contribution to this issue, you can read about many of his favourite sights on pages 12 and 13. John also provides a regular supply of photographs for our online Cruise Logs when he is on board for which we would also like to extend our grateful thanks. On behalf of the Captains, Senior Officers, Ship’s Company and all our shore-side staff, I should like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous 2017. Louise Pratt Hebridean Times Editor 5 www.hebridean.co.uk 3 THE HEBRIDEAN TIMES NEWS IN brIEf The Ilkley Literature Festival is held over 17 days at The first took place on Thursday, 13th October where the the start of October in the miniature Victorian spa featured author was renowned celebrity chef Hugh town of Ilkley, just a stones throw from hebridean's Fearnley-Whittingstall. A small group of Hebridean guests head office in the neighbouring town of Skipton. The enjoyed a drinks reception with canapés in Ilkley’s Winter festival is supported by Arts Council england Gardens, ahead of Hugh's informative talk relating to his Yorkshire and Bradford Metropolitan Council. latest book 'A to Z: Our favourite ingredients', a compendium of ingredients a resourceful and modern Over the last forty years innumerable famous authors have cook may wish to use in the kitchen. passed through its doors - from international figures and Nobel prize winners to poets, broadcasters and journalists. Saturday, 15th October saw Hebridean's second sponsored There have been residencies, literary walks, discussions, event, with the popular geographer, writer and commissions, workshops, exhibitions, performances and broadcaster Nicholas Crane. Nicholas provided an insight moments of high drama. into his new book, 'The Making of a British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present'. Outlining the history of For the past 8 12,000 years of British landscape, the book traces the years Hebridean story from melting glaciers of the Mesolithic period Island Cruises through major landscape events such as the Black Death, has been a enclosures and urbanisation. Once again Hebridean guests proud sponsor were invited to a drinks and canapé reception before of the festival taking their front row seats of the balcony at the Kings and this year Hall, Ilkley. sponsored two fascinating We are delighted that Nicholas will be joining our year of talks. History, Heritage and Archaeology cruise commencing 26th September 2017. View from the balcony, Kings Hall, Ilkley CReW NeWS We are delighted to announce that 1st Officer Caz Palmer has successfully achieved her Masters Certificate of Competency Unlimited, more commonly known as the ‘Masters Ticket’, the professional qualification required for mariners to serve as the Master of a commercial vessel. Caz will be a familiar face to many of our guests as she joined Hebridean Princess over 2 years ago. Chief Operating Officer Ken Charleson commented, “I should like to congratulate Caz on her achievement. We continue to provide training, development and career progression opportunities for our loyal officers and crew and will support Caz as she gains the experience and confidence she will require to further her career with Hebridean Island Cruises.” You can read more about Caz and her seafaring career to date in our Meet the Team feature on pages 14 and 15. Caz before her Masters exam 4 01756 704704 WINTER 2016 NeW GUeST SPeAKeR Scotland boasts an abundance of castles and the hebrides are no exception. Several islands of the Inner hebrides are home to fascinating structures dating back many centuries. Scottish gardens are a delight to visit at any time of the year and are famous for their clear air and profuse flowers. The west coast of Scotland is influenced by the Gulf Stream giving milder temperatures which enable great displays in spring and early summer of rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias. We are delighted to announce that Joanna Macpherson, star of the recent BBC Scotland series Lady Lairds, will be joining this cruise as guest speaker. Joanna moved to her family’s estate, Attadale on the shores of Loch Carron in Wester Ross, 4 years ago taking her husband Alec Cormack with her. They had both lived and worked in London until then. Attadale had belonged to her Joanna Macpherson grandfather so she has always spent holidays there since a baby. Having studied History and Russian at university, she ended up in magazine publishing Gairloch in London, working on a wide variety of titles from Classic Cars Magazine to Inverewe Garden Flight International and finally running the advertising sales on both The English Dunvegan Garden and The English Home magazines. This proved a useful training ground Dunvegan SKYE Castle Kyle of Lochalsh for ending up in the Highlands of Scotland attempting to help run a large estate Armadale Attadale Gardens Armadale with a 20 acre garden, four holiday cottages and approximately 30,000 acres, Castle RUM mostly wild country, including two Munros and a lot of red deer. Kinloch Castle EIGG MUCK Attadale Gardens play host to one of the visits on this cruise. Started by Baron Schroder in the late 19th century, hill paths meander through 20 acres of COLL Lochaline Ardtornish Ulva Estate Garden conifers and rhododendrons. Totally transformed after the 1980 storms by Lip na Cloiche MULL Garden Craignure OBAN owner Nicky Macpherson, Joanna’s mother, it is an artist’s garden designed to IONA Duart Castle Iona Abbey frame the magnificent views of Skye and the surrounding hills. Ardfern COLONSAY Arduaine Joanna will give us an insight into the running of the Attadale Estate, the Colonsay House JURA Garden Gardens making of the Lady Lairds documentary and the organisation ‘Discover Scottish ISLAY Gardens’, a network of gardens which have come together to promote their rich diversity, a number of which we will visit on this cruise. hISTORIC CASTLeS AND GLORIOUS GARDeNS Departing from Oban 20th June to 27th June 2017 Accompanied by Joanna Macpherson Prices from £3,995 per person based on 2 people sharing an inside double/twin cabin Attadale Gardens www.hebridean.co.uk 5 THE HEBRIDEAN TIMES Captain Trevor Bailey Trevor (left) on board the Liverpool to Dun Laoghaire ferry t about the same time that the Columba was being converted to become Hebridean Princess , I was working on a ferry of similar vintage operating between Liverpool and Dun Laoghaire in AIreland. We were experiencing a number of problems with the controllable pitch propellers and the bow thruster, such that we needed to take tugs to assist with our arrivals and departures. One morning, on arrival into Dun Laoghaire, there was a string of rapid instructions to the tugs, some of which were contradictory, not to say confusing - one of the tug skippers was heard to say in his best broad Dublin accent “Which way’s he **@!!** going now?” - the expletives have been deleted to protect your sensitivities, but I am sure you will get the general drift. With the unusually windy weather that we have seen On that same cruise, as we headed back to home territory, during the late summer and autumn, similar thoughts will I inadvertently provided great amusement to all on board have crossed the minds of some of our guests and, for when I managed to lock myself out on to the balcony at Pursers Louise and Valerija, this must have been Reception shortly after 0100 hrs.
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