When we awoke this morning, the Adonia was already moored up in the capital city of the emerald isle. There is a very old joke that asks “Which country is the richest in the world?” and the answer is “Ireland, because its capital is always Dublin.” 🙂 We had been here once before, on the…
As we are doing a cruise in British waters, I thought I would continue this blog using the title of whichever shipping forecast area we happen to be sailing in on that day. We woke up this morning and went up to the Conservatory for our breakfast, and afterwards we went out on deck to…
In all our years of cruising, many thousands of nautical miles right across the globe, we’ve tended to neglect our own green and pleasant land with all its history, heritage and rugged beauty. So it was at 4.00am this morning that woke up and got ourselves ready for the long journey from Durham to Southampton,…
Well, once again we had the boring part of the holiday to get through – the long flight home. After a good breakfast we collected our cases, checked out of our room and sat in reception to await the arrival of the buses that would take us to the airport. Last time we flew back…
We were up bright and early this morning, dressed and packed up and along to breakfast before getting our hand-luggage (our cases had already been collected from outside our door in the early hours of the morning) and going along to the Globe lounge to await our call to disembark. Then down the gangplank we…
When we woke up around 7.45 this morning, the Arcadia was already docked in Montevideo, on the Rio de la Plata (River Plate). We went out onto our balcony for our first glimpse of Uruguay, our 71st country visited. After breakfast we assembled at 8.45am in the Palladium for our shore excursion, the Montevideo city tour….
Sunday, 20th January 2013 Crossing the Tropic of Capricorn at 23° 27′ south in the early hours of this morning, Arcadia left the warmer waters of the tropics on her passage towards Uruguay. Today and tomorrow would see our last two sea days before our arrival in Montevideo. We enjoyed a bit of a lie-in this morning and…
When we woke up this morning the Arcadia was just about to dock in the port of Rio de Janeiro, bustling vibrant city and former capital of Brazil. We had stayed here once before, for three days, in 2001 so we were excited to be back. With anticipation we went out onto the balcony to see…
Today we had another full day at sea to look forward to. People who read this blog sometimes say to me, “But you always seem to do the same stuff on sea days – don’t you get bored?”. I wouldn’t say we always do the same thing, but like everyday life, we tend to fall…
This morning we watched from our balcony as the Arcadia slowly pulled into her berth in the port of Salvador da Bahia, ancient former capital of Brazil. We had had a fantastic holiday here in 2001, when we stayed at the beach resort of Costa do Sauípe, so we were looking forward to exploring the old…
