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Our excursion gets us to the Eden Project. A working china clay pit until 1995, the iconic biomes first opened to the public in 2001 and it became an instant success. This project is an impressive transformation of the old pit. It is an educational charity and social enterprise, creates gardens, events and exhibitions. There are two biomes, a Mediterranean and a rainforest biome, which is large enough to fit the Tower of London inside. They are home to approximately one million plants.

We have an additional stop, the Isle of Wight. The town Cowes is touristy and has lots of little shops, cafes and bars, nice to take a stroll, especially if the weather is pleasant. It is a good place to buy the souvenirs.

Our last stop is Dover, the weather is awful and the town not very appealing but we are brave and despite of rain and wind we get on shore and walk along the highstreet, to the harbour and back, getting wet and cold. Reason to visit 2 or 3 cafes to warm up and hopefully they will have wifi for us and our emails. Not a lot of luck neither with the weather nor the wifi. Lets go back to the ship and say good bye to Great Britain. The last day we are at sea and the weather is laughing at us, blue sky and sunshine. The brunch is Bavarian style, beer and beer and beer, sausages, pork knuckles, pretzels…… everybody is on deck. Great last day. During the night we are sailing up the river Elbe back to Hamburg where we arrive at 7am. Again beautiful sunny weather but it is time to get ready for the airport and take the flight back home.

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