SUNRISE: 10:09 SUNSET: 14:33 What a lovely day we had today; there was so much friendliness and fun. 🙂 We got up, as usual, at 8.00am and looked out of our portholes into the darkness. There was a bit of a drizzle, but the sea was fairly calm and the temperature, at 9°C, was amazingly…
SUNRISE: 09:16 SUNSET: 16:03 We got up this morning at eight o’clock, as usual. It was still dark; the sun wouldn’t rise for more than an hour yet, so we couldn’t really see what the weather was like out of our portholes. We could feel, however, that the Balmoral wasn’t moving around as much, so…
SUNRISE: 07:55 SUNSET: 15:26 We got up at eight o’clock this morning and looked out of our portholes. It was not long after sunrise and the sea below us looked (and felt!) quite choppy. We could see lots of white horses on the water and the sky was overcast, but it wasn’t raining. We went…
When we woke up this morning, we were not in our own bed at home. We were in the Ibis Hotel, Southampton. We had travelled down from Durham yesterday on the train as far as London, then the National Express coach from London to Southampton. We wanted to have a good night’s sleep and not…
Not much to write about today. We got up at 8.30am and set about packing all our stuff up in our single large suitcase; I put the broken hot-brush into the bin. We didn’t have to check out of our room until 11.00am, so we pottered around for a while in our room, then went…
OUR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY We had a lovely day today. Woke up to blue skies and sunshine once again on today, our 36th wedding anniversary. We could think of worse places to be spending it in! 🙂 Tonight we were booked on the four-hour Dinner Cruise, which set off at sunset and included four hours of…
Once again we awoke to another scorcher of a day, as we got up at 8.00am and wandered down to breakfast. I just made do with a couple of slices of toast and jam because, as previously mentioned, the cooked breakfasts are abysmal, but I managed to sneak out a couple of slices of the…
Didn’t do an awful lot today. Got up at eight o’clock as usual, and wandered out onto our balcony where the weather was already very warm; today promised to be another scorcher. We had no excursions booked, and today was Sunday, so we thought we’d wander down to the harbour after breakfast and see if…
We didn’t do a great deal today at all. I don’t know whether it was the hot weather or the after-effects of yesterday’s “booze cruise” or a combination of both, but we got up fairly late this morning (9.00am) and sluggishly made our way to the dining room for breakfast. I avoided the fatty bacon…
As usual, we got up and 8.00am to a warm and sunny morning. The coach was due to pick us up on the dual carriageway at the back of the hotel at 9.10am, so we packed the rucksack with our towels and swimming things. In fact, I just wore my tankini with my matching sarong…
