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What amazing pictures! Sounds like it was everything you dreamed it would be!

Is it common for cruise ships to pivot in place on leaving a port? Our cruise ship/ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm did that kind of pivot- pulled away from the dock and rotated in place. I watched from the highest deck I was allowed. Later I got onto the next higher two decks, but we had just boarded and I didn't know the routes yet. Plus there were people around who would have told me I couldn't go there. It's pretty odd to watch something the size of a cruise ship turn nearly on a dime... I was also glad the harbor was large enough to hold her while sideways...