We didn’t do an awful lot today, as we spent most of the day travelling to our next destination. When we originally booked this trip over a year ago, the plan had been for us to cross the border from Thailand into Cambodia by coach. However, in the last few months, there have been border…
We were up as soon as the alarm went off this morning, and we got ourselves ready and prepared for all the things we’d need for this long day ahead. Most important was our 500ml water bottles, which we had had chilling in the fridge overnight; we’d need to ensure we drank about 3-4 litres…
As we had a packed itinerary ahead of us today, we had been given a time of 7.30am to be on the coach. We therefore got up at 6.15am and got washed and dressed into suitable clothing for the tropical heat. As we’d be climbing in and out of boats, I decided to take my…
For all those eagle-eyed people who spotted that I said “Emirates flight to Hong Kong” in the previous blog entry, it’s just to let you know that the flight did actually land at Bangkok on the way! 🙂 Although this second flight was actually an hour shorter than the first one, it seemed to be…
After spending the first four days of 2025 in Norway, we had so far this year been no further abroad, the last two cruises we enjoyed being in and around our own green and pleasant land. It was therefore with a great sense of excitement and anticipation that we awoke this morning, as this afternoon…
Got up at eight o’clock this morning with the heavy-hearted feeling that this was the last day of our cruise. We had a full day at sea today, and at some point we would have to start our packing. 🙁 Decided to go to the Britannia Restaurant for our breakfast, where I enjoyed a bowl…
Woke up this morning again to the dulcet tones of radio presenter Matt Bailey on Radio Newcastle’s breakfast show, as he gave us this morning’s cryptic clue to solve. As today is apparently International Potato Day, the answer to the clue was ‘Maris Piper’. It was therefore quite appropriate that we would be spending the…
We didn’t really do much today at all. We got up at 7.30am and went out onto the balcony to watch the progress of Queen Anne towards her anchorage in the Dublin Bay. I don’t know why the ship just didn’t dock in Dublin itself, as we have done on previous cruises. Maybe she is…
Oh, Mary, this London’s a wonderful sight,For the people are working by day and by night.They don’t sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat,But there’s gangs of them digging for gold in the street.At least when I asked them that’s what I was told,So I just took a hand in this digging for gold.But for all…
Woke up this morning at 7.20am, as Trevor had put Radio Newcastle on BBC Sounds so we could listen to Matt Bailey at Breakfast. I couldn’t send in the answer to the crytic clue this morning as I couldn’t solve it. Going out onto the balcony, I saw that the sky was dull and grey…
