Woke up this morning feeling a bit sad, because today is our last day on the Queen Victoria and we’ll be back in Southampton tomorrow morning. I could easily have done another week of cruising on this beautiful ship. 🙂 A quick look out of our window showed that the rain had finally stopped, although…
A Rainy Day in Dublin
We awoke this morning to yet more grey skies and windy weather as the Queen Victoria glided through the Irish Sea on her way into Dublin, Ireland’s capital. We were not due to arrive until 1.00pm, so we had the morning at our leisure. After breakfast we ventured out onto the aft decks, but as…
RMS Lusitania Remembered
During the night, the Queen Victoria had paused over the wreck of the RMS Lusitania to allow those people who wished to do so, and who had perhaps lost relatives in the tragedy, to throw floral tributes overboard. She then continued on her way into Cobh (formerly Queenstown), Ireland, where she docked around 7.00am. We…
Happy 175th Birthday Cunard
Despite the Commodore’s warning last night of rough seas and a bumpy ride, we only noticed a gentle rocking motion from the Queen Victoria and we slept very well, getting up at around 8.30am to blue skies and a fine day, if a little windy. What a busy day today turned out to be! It…
Bonjour de la belle France!
When we woke up this morning at 8 o’clock, we were already docked in Le Havre, France. A quick glance out of the window showed that the skies were grey and cloudy once again; indeed there was a sprinkling of rain. Docked up alongside us and towering over everything like an ugly behemoth was the…
Guernsey and Gladrags
After a good night’s sleep we were awoken at 7.30 this morning by the hydraulic whirring of the lifeboat davits outside our window, as the lifeboat was lowered to be used as one of the ship’s tenders, as the Queen Victoria had dropped anchor off the pretty town of St. Peter Port, Guernsey. Looking out,…
Coach Trip to Cunard
In the early hours of this morning, when everyone else was still sound asleep, Trevor and I were wide awake and getting ready for another cruise. We are due to spend a week on Cunard’s Queen Victoria taking part in various events that have been organised, not only to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Cunard,…
It’s a Long Way Home
We were up and out of cabin 4130 at 7.30pm, for the start of what would be a very long 30 hour journey back home. We went to the Veranda Café for our breakfast and sat with Beryl and Sue. Once we’d finished, we just had to make ourselves comfortable until we were called to…
Cable up the Table
We were woken this morning by Captain Tkachuk’s voice booming over the tannoy to say that the Voyager would be moored up in a temporary berth until the MSC Opera left at 5.00pm, in which case we would move into that berth and remain there overnight. Apparently it was due to a cargo ship which was having…
Indian Ocean meets Atlantic Ocean
We didn’t really do a lot today. Got up about 8.45am and went up, as usual to have our breakfast in the Veranda Café. Then we just spent time pottering around the ship before going into Scott’s Lounge to watch a towel folding demonstration by the cabin stewards. As with napkins, you can (with a…