Cruise niches in British Isles
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Poseidon Expeditions is a company known for its polar outings. The company typically ventures to the Antarctic, Arctic regions such as Greenland, Iceland and Spitsbergen, Norway, and even the North Pole. So what is it doing in the British Isles? Sampling out-of-the-way islands and mainland destinations that are rich in history and nature. Legendary History & Wild Nature is a new cruise offering that will depart Plymouth, England, on May 22, 2019, for a 13-day/12-night adventure aboard the recently refurbished 114-passenger Sea Spirit. Early on in the itinerary there’s a visit to the Scilly Isles, off the coast of Cornwall, whose climate is mild enough to support palm trees and a garden with more than 20,000 plants from around the world. Later there will be the chance to see puffins on Ireland’s Skellig Islands, one of Europe’s largest seabird colonies on Northern Ireland’s Rathlin Island, and an abbey on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides that dates to A.D. 563. On St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides are hundreds of thousands of seabirds and the stone buildings abandoned by the island’s former inhabitants. More history and wildlife await in the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands. If booked by Nov. 1, there’s a discount of up to 15 percent for this trip. That puts the lowest-priced tripleoccupancy cabin at $5,216 per person and the lowestpriced double-occupancy suite at $7,196 per person. Info: 347-801-2610,