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Category: Everyday chat

Belfast Reunion

Posted on July 6, 2023July 10, 2023 by bollingerbabe

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…

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Rosyth and Edinburgh

Posted on September 6, 2020March 27, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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….

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These City Walls

Posted on September 3, 2020March 27, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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…

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Ramblings of a Different Kind

Posted on September 2, 2020July 10, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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…

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The Foibles of Fellow Passengers

Posted on March 14, 2017April 2, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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…

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How Cruising has Changed over the Years

Posted on May 9, 2012April 21, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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…

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