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Freo Today. 2 April 2025. Do you sometimes wonder where some of our Freo Port visitors are now at anchor, long after they’ve visited us in Freo? Like the AIDAsol, a Goliath sized cruise ship who last visited us in Fremantle on 7 January. If you missed our report of that visit here it is again. Well, Margot Roberts, on the much smaller but very cute and David-like MV Trollfjord, the Hurtigruten line’s flagship small expedition boat, spotted the the two side by side in Bergen, Norway the other day and immediately did what any other well-informed FSN Shipee would do – and emailed her great pic of the encounter to our Editor. A really good get. Thanks Margot. Enjoy the cruise!

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