So here we were, tired and grubby, with the longest part of our journey over. We had already met four other people who are doing the same escorted tour as us; this was arranged through Mercury Holidays, who we haven’t tried before. Usually we do escorted tours through Travelsphere or Titan, but the itinerary for…
At 5.00pm on Friday I walked out of the office door, with the fantastic feeling that it would be another 17 days before I returned. However, today was the day we’d been waiting for, when once again we would be jetting off to exotic locations and exciting adventures in our 84th country – this time,…
Well, this is the boring and depressing part of the holiday. We got up at 7.00am and found ourselves right back where we started, in Abu Dhabi. Out on the balcony we watched the red sun climbing in the sky, heralding the new day. We collected our bags, had a last look around cabin 6098…
Got up this morning feeling quite sad that this was our last day on board the good ship Constellation and we would be flying home tomorrow. 🙁 We went and had our breakfasts in the Ocean View buffet, then wandered out on deck. We had a couple of hours to spare because we weren’t due to…
Got up around 8.00am and went to the Ocean View for our breakfast, choosing a table by the window so we could look out upon the Arabian Sea as we headed to Dubai. It was quite disconcerting sitting where we were, because there were large, reinforced glass circular windows in the floor which, when you…
Got up around eight o’clock this morning, and went out on our balcony where the morning was already warm. I didn’t fancy going to breakfast so Trevor just brought me back a cup of coffee and a small muffin which I ate in the cabin while getting ready. Around 9.30am, we disembarked the Constellation and…
Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is India’s finance centre, the economic powerhouse of the nation, heart of the Hindi film industry and the industrial hub of everything from textiles to petrochemicals. It is the glamour of the Bollywood cinema, cricket on the “maidans” (open grassed areas), outstanding colonial architecture and red double-decker buses. We were…
Woke up around 7.30am to the sound of singing and music playing loudly, so even if we’d wanted a lie-in there was no chance of that! 😊 We went out onto the balcony and saw that we were moored up in Mormugao, and there was a large makeshift gateway/archway proclaiming “Goa Welcomes You” and a…
Got up at 8.00am feeling a lot better, while still not 100%. I was determined to make the most of it, however, and we went up to the Ocean View self-service cafeteria and I enjoyed a full English breakfast consisting of bacon, sausage, black pudding, mushrooms and beans, all washed down with a large glass…
Woke up late this morning and once again I didn’t want to go to breakfast. I still wasn’t feeling well but I have to shake this cold off come what may, certainly before we reach Goa, India, on Monday. What made it seem even worse was that we’d had to advance our watches by an…
