Another nice relaxing sea day to look forward to today. We got up just after 7.00am and went out onto the balcony to see what the weather was like. Once again, it was cooler and the wind had increased; it was not what we had expected in these latitudes, and the sky was heavy with…
GOOD FRIDAY We were awake at seven o’clock this morning. The sun had risen five minutes or so beforehand, but it was on the other side of the ship so we missed the usual gorgeous orange sky. The weather was warm, but cloudy, and we were somewhat disappointed that s strong, 20 knot wind was…
We (predictably) woke up at 4.30am. I had slept soundly up until that point, but Trevor said he had been awakened several times by the air-conditioning unit switching on and off. As I wear ear-plugs in bed, which effectively block out any sounds, it hadn’t bothered me. We walked for a short while before falling…
It was 5.30am when the alarm blasted out in the grey dawn light outside our bedroom window. But I did not, as usual, drag my feet getting out of bed. Today we were setting off an another fabulous holiday, flying to Miami, Florida and staying overnight, before joining Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth tomorrow afternoon. I showered,…
Saturday, 7th February 2026 We were up at 5.00am and got washed, dressed and packed our pyjamas and washbags into our suitcases, which we secured and labelled. It was far too early for the restaurant to be open for breakfast, but there was a little 24-hour coffee bar where we were able to wake ourselves…
The alarm awoke us at 6.30am, and we hurriedly dressed, checked all around cabin 6030 to make sure we hadn’t left anything, then hefted our rucksacks onto our shoulders and made our way up to the Windows Café for a good breakfast. Trevor was feeling a bit under the weather and we both hoped he…
When we woke up this morning, it was with the depressing knowledge that tonight would be the last night on board the fabulous Azamara Onward. What a fantastic cruise we had had, in some of the most remote and least-known islands on the planet. We didn’t really do much today. We contemplated going ashore in…
When we got up at 7.30 this morning, the Onward was slowly making her way towards the island of Mo’orea. Mo’orea is a roughly heart-shaped island only about 11 miles from Tahiti; in fact, we could just see the bulk of Tahiti rising in the distance. Mo’orea, like Tahiti, forms part of the archipelago known…
During the night, the clocks had gone back once again, in line with the GMT -10 time zone of French Polynesia. We were therefore wide-awake and up at 7.30am as usual this morning, with a feeling of excitement and anticipation, as once again we would be going ashore. This morning the Onward was due to…
Sunday, 1st February 2026 Another couple of sea days. Unlike the Caribbean, where you can visit a different island every day, you have to travel hundreds of miles between islands in the vastness of the Pacific, which is larger than all the other world’s oceans put together. 🙂 So here we were, in our usual…
