Woke up this morning feeling a mixture of excitement, anticipation and a touch of anxiety. The reason? We were due to set off, once again, on our travels, and today would see a series of airports and flights as we journeyed on our way to Lima, Peru. Yes! We are ultimately going on a cruise…
Take the National ExpressWhen your life’s in a mess.It will make you smile. ‘National Express’ – The Divine Comedy Got up early this morning with a slightly nervous feeling of excited anticipation, because today we would be travelling to Southampton and staying overnight before joining the wonderful M/S Borealis tomorrow morning! What a great start…
Once again we have had a great year for cruising, with the CoViD-19 restrictions and tests well in the past and cruising just as good as it has ever been. While all our travel plans for 2023 did not quite go as expected, we still had a variety of very different cruises and visited some…
Well, this blog entry probably won’t be of any interest to anybody, as we just spent the day with my cousins in Belfast. So please therefore feel free to skip this entry. 🙂 My mother was from Belfast and my two cousins, Alan and his wife Margaret, and Brenda and her husband Adam, still live…
We hadn’t done much on Friday or Saturday, apart from packing our cases and getting ready for a trip away. Yes! We are finally able to go away on holiday and, whilst it may not be as exciting as Chile and Easter Island, at least it would be a break and a change of scenery….
Woke up this morning on a day that wasn’t sure if it was going to be sunny, windy, or raining (or all three). Got showered, dressed, had our breakfasts then put on our trainers and left the house at 9.00am to walk to Durham train station. Today we were going to spend in the beautiful…
When is a cruise not a cruise? Answer: when it’s been booked to take place in 2020 and is invariably cancelled due to the dreaded worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Regular readers of this blog will notice that there hasn’t been a single post made since November 2019; the longest time I’ve gone without writing anything since…
Stuff I’ve noticed, not just on Braemar but on other ships as well: a) People who book on a transatlantic voyage then complain that we are spending too many days at sea. This trip was advertised as a Caribbean/transatlantic. Looking at the itinerary we could see that 10 out of the 16 days would be…
Having taken our first cruise almost 24 years ago when there were relatively few good cruise ships about, we have noticed many changes, and not all of them are for the best. For a start, ships actually used to look like ships. That is, their outlines were long, sleek and streamlined and (when viewed from…
