Got up at seven o’clock this morning to find the Quest docked in Seward, Alaska. We went up for breakfast in the Windows Café and I enjoyed the full English as we knew we’d be disembarking soon. 🙁 We returned to stateroom 6009, packed the remainder of our stuff into our carry-on bags, had a last…
Category: Land-based holidays
Good Morning Tokyo
Disembarking the aircraft and making our way through Arrivals was fairly quick and efficient, and soon we found the Azamara Club Cruises rep and joined three other couples from our flight for the bus to the hotel, which they told us was about 1½ hour’s travel away. In Japan, they drive on the left as…
Turning Japanese
Turning Japanese,I think I’m turning Japanese.I really think so. The Vapors There were a few songs that sprung to mind when thinking of a title for today’s blog; as well as Turning Japanese by the Vapors, I could have had Big in Japan by Alphaville or Japanese Boy by Anneka. So maybe that might give…
Kathmandu to King’s Cross
Well, what more is there to write? We we got up this morning our holiday was effectively over, and we just had the tedium of a looooooong journey back home again. We had a light breakfast in the hotel restaurant, then collected our cases from our room and went down to the foyer to check…
Heritage and History
Got up at 7.30am to find that the electricity in the room had gone off; this was a regular occurrence in Nepal. It would come on for a few seconds; then go off again, so it was difficult to keep our phones charged up. When we looked out of the window we were pleased to…
Browsing in Bhaktapur
Woke up about 5.00am to go to the loo; my throat was quite hoarse and tickly and I put it down to the drying effects of the air-conditioning. Went back to sleep again, then woke up at 8.00am when the alarm went off. Trevor said it had been 2.45am (!!) before the football had finally…
Chitwan to Kathmandu
We had to get up at 6.00am in order to leave half an hour later for our boat trip before breakfast. We were pleased to see that it wasn’t raining when we looked out of our window; in fact, the water level seemed to have receded slightly since last night. Only four of us went…
Monsoon and Mahouts
Got up at 6.00am to the sound of the rain pounding down torrentially outside; it had been pouring down relentlessly most of the night, and the paddy fields outside our rear window looked even more flooded. We had been due to take a ride along the river in a boat made from a hollowed-out tree…
Cable Car and Culture
Got up at eight o’clock this morning so we could be packed, breakfasted and ready to leave at 9.00am. Realised it was 1st July – were we into the second half of 2018 already?! It was raining once again, so we donned our cagoules and made a dash for the restaurant along the paths fringed…
The Pleasures of Pokhara
We got up about 7.30am and looked out of our window; we were pleased to see that the rain had abated a lot. Outside, the air smelt gorgeously of damp earth but the morning was already warm and muggy. Anal had advised us that our itinerary would change slightly today; the boat trip that was…