Woke up this morning to find ourselves docked in Willemstad, capital of Curaçao, Dutch Antilles. Curaçao is the largest of the ABC islands, which also include Aruba and Bonaire. We hadn’t been here before so we were looking forward to exploring. After breakfast we had to assemble on the quayside for our excursion this morning….
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A Flash of Flying Fish
We woke up early this morning once again, looking forward to a whole day at sea. After a good breakfast in the Waterside buffet we went out on deck, where the sun was already bright and the day promised to be another scorcher. We decided to spend a couple of hours or so up on…
New Year’s Eve in Barbados
Woke up this morning really early; in fact we’d been awake since about 4.00am due to the 4-hour time difference. So at 5.45am I was up and onto the balcony, looking from our vantage point on Deck 11 over the awakening port of Bridgetown. Directly ahead we could see the floodlights of the famous West…
Venture on Ventura
Well, folks, here we go again – it’s Holiday Time! Yes, we are off on another cruise, this time in the sunny Caribbean on board P & O’s M/V Ventura. Left the house at 5.00am for the three-hour drive down to Birmingham International Airport. It was the first time we’d flown from there. The drive…
The Jewel in the Formula 1 Crown
We woke up early this morning to a whiff of excitement in the air – we were anchored off Monte Carlo and today we were going to the Formula 1 Grand Prix! 🙂 All F1 races are full of money, glitz and glamour but the Monaco Grand Prix is known as the ‘jewel in the…
Plebs in St. Tropez :-)
This morning we woke up early to find the Journey at anchor at the millionaires’ playground, St. Tropez, or Saint-Trop as the French nickname it. As usual, the weather was warm and sunny. We had not been to St-Trop before so we were looking forward to exploring this gorgeous piece of coastline. Once we’d disembarked the liberty…
Perfect Portofino
We woke up early this morning to find ourselves at anchor off the picturesque fishing village of Portofino, Italy. We had been here once before 10 years ago, on the Marco Polo, so it was nice to be visiting again. After breakfast, we took the liberty boat for the 10 minute ride across. All the…
Nice in Nice
It’s holiday time again folks – this time a four-day mini-cruise around the French and Italian Riviera, ultimately finishing up at Monaco for the Formula 1 Grand Prix. 🙂 We set off at 4.00am to drive to Newcastle Airport for our flight down to Heathrow, then subsequently to Nice on the Côte d’Azur, the “millionaires’…
50 Today!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, 17 February 2011 – my 50th birthday! I can now go on Saga holidays, ha ha (as if!!) 😀 We were woken at 7:10am by the sound of cruise director Ricky’s voice bellowing over the tannoy, announcing that the Braemar was alongside in Bridgetown, Barbados. We got up and went out on the balcony…
Last Night on the Braemar :-(
Well, we woke up this morning feeling quite sad, as our fantastic holiday is nearly over. 🙁 What annoys me about these cruises is that about a week before you are due to disembark the ship, you get delivered to your cabin such bumf as “buy your take-home duty free”, “disembarkation notice”, “immigration form for…