SUNDAY, 10th MARCH 2024 Woke up at 7.15 this morning and looked out of the window to a dull and wet March day. However, the weather could do nothing to dampen our excitement, as today we were setting off on yet another fabulous holiday! Yes! Today we were due to fly out to Sydney, Australia,…
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…
It was with great excitement that we woke up this morning to blue skies and sunshine. We’d said that if there was only one hot and sunny day on this cruise, this day had to be it. 😊 After breakfast at around 8.00am, we wandered around outside on the rear decks outside The View buffet. …
There’s not a lot more to write now. We were up at 6.30am as breakfast this morning was an hour earlier, at seven o’clock. As ever, we sat with Jerry, Gaynor, Marian, Maggie, Wolfgang and Enna. “M and M” (as we called them) had to leave before 7.30am as their flight was very early. Our…
Once more on the deck I standOf my own swift gliding craftSet sail! Farewell to the landThe gale follows fair abaft A Life On The Ocean Wave – Henry Russell Today would see the first of two full days at sea en route to Southampton. It was a good feeling, when we woke up, to…
There’s not much more to write now. We rose at 7.00am and I got showered and shampooed my hair before getting dressed. Trevor then popped into the unoccupied cabin #4 where everyone’s luggage was being stored, and he retrieved our two cases and brought them back, laying them open on the bed for us to…
Today would see us spend nine full hours cruising non-stop in the Ionian, to ensure we reached Zakynthos (Zante) this afternoon as planned. The wind had dropped considerably from the strength that had prevented us leaving Nydri for the last three nights, but Skipper Yanni warned us we would still be in for a fairly…
Not a lot to write about today. We wondered if we were going to be able to set off and continue our gorgeous cruise around the Ionian, but Captain Yanni showed us the area we’d be sailing in on his marine weather forecast app; to my untrained eye it just looked like a lot of…
During the night, we woke up several times to the sound of the wind whistling through the rigging and the occasional rattling and clanking of the cables and fenders as well as intermittent showers of rain pattering on the roof of our for’ard cabin. It was strange, because the wind would die right down to…
October. The tenth month of 2022 already, and what a lovely place to be spending it in! 😊 After enjoying our al fresco breakfast on the aft decks around eight o’clock, we had a walk around the vessel, greeting the other passengers; we were all getting to know each other now; the barriers were coming…
