Woke up this morning quite tired due to the lost hour and decided not to go to breakfast, but to make the most of the fruit bowl in our cabin instead. Trevor went to the buffet and brought me back a cup of coffee (as there is no kettle in our stateroom). At 10 o’clock…
Got up at our usual time of 8.00am to find the Quest docked in the port of Kushiro. Going out onto our balcony and looking down at the quayside, we could see several stalls set out below, and a shuttle bus waiting nearby. We didn’t have any excursions booked today, instead preferring to do our…
Got up at 8.00am to find ourselves docked in the port of Muroran, the gateway to Sapporo, Japan. This was a new port of call to us, as are all of them on this voyage, even though we’ve been to the countries before. The weather was dry but the skies were cloudy, and we hoped…
Got up around eight o’clock after a great night’s sleep, and hoped we had finally got over the 8-hour time difference. We went out onto our balcony, but there was quite a cold, brisk wind blowing which would have made it unpleasant to sit outside for any length of time. As we made our way…
Didn’t sleep very well at all last night. At some point I woke up in the pitch darkness, feeling as if I’d been asleep for hours, to find it was only midnight. From then on I was asleep and awake and asleep and awake, tossing and turning, and morning seemed an absolute age away. Finally,…
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…
We woke up early this morning to a whiff of excitement in the air – we were anchored off Monte Carlo and today we were going to the Formula 1 Grand Prix! 🙂 All F1 races are full of money, glitz and glamour but the Monaco Grand Prix is known as the ‘jewel in the…
This morning we woke up early to find the Journey at anchor at the millionaires’ playground, St. Tropez, or Saint-Trop as the French nickname it. As usual, the weather was warm and sunny. We had not been to St-Trop before so we were looking forward to exploring this gorgeous piece of coastline. Once we’d disembarked the liberty…
We woke up early this morning to find ourselves at anchor off the picturesque fishing village of Portofino, Italy. We had been here once before 10 years ago, on the Marco Polo, so it was nice to be visiting again. After breakfast, we took the liberty boat for the 10 minute ride across. All the…
It’s holiday time again folks – this time a four-day mini-cruise around the French and Italian Riviera, ultimately finishing up at Monaco for the Formula 1 Grand Prix. 🙂 We set off at 4.00am to drive to Newcastle Airport for our flight down to Heathrow, then subsequently to Nice on the Côte d’Azur, the “millionaires’…
