I’m going home, NewcastleYou can keep your London wine,I’d walk the street, all day all neetFor a bottle of the River Tyne. Busker Got up at around 9.00am and looked out of our window. We could tell we were back in the open sea as the water was a little choppier, and we could see…
Wednesday. The holiday was certainly looking a bit sick now – had we really been on the Balmoral a week already? Despite us only having two days left I could not get out of my pit this morning which was hardly surprising after our very late night last night. It was after half-ten before I…
Didn’t get up until 9.00 this morning as all the late nights were starting to catch up with me. Instead, I just took advantage of the tea- and coffee-making facilities in our cabin, and just got washed and dressed while perusing today’s daily programme. As the Balmoral had already docked on the Seine in Rouen…
“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt “And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.” — Winston Churchill We got up about 8.20 this morning and went to have our…
We were up at 7.30 this morning as we had to assemble in the Neptune Lounge at 8.45am to be allocated a bus number for today’s excursion, which was a half-day visit to Brussels. I had never been to Brussels before, although Trevor had been many years ago. We enjoyed our breakfast up in the…
We woke up this morning around 8.30am and looked out of our window to see what the weather was like. There was a lot of cloud but at least it wasn’t raining! The Balmoral was making her way along the scenic Western Scheldt River towards Antwerp, and we were due to arrive around lunchtime. In…
TREVOR’S BIRTHDAY We were up at 7.00am and looked out of a rain-spattered window at a dull and dreary sky. We hoped the weather would improve, but taking our umbrellas and cagoules with us today was a must. I gave Trevor his birthday card and he opened his other cards and presents he’d brought with…
After an extremely good night’s sleep, I woke up very late this morning, partly due to the fact we had to put our watches forward an hour to European time. So it was 10.25am before I crawled out of my pit. Trevor had been to breakfast two hours earlier! We weren’t the only ones however;…
At 1.00pm exactly we left the house and set off through the light lunchtime traffic for the Port of Tyne, Newcastle, as once again we are setting off on a cruise, this time on the Balmoral, a lovely ship of the Fred Olsen fleet on which we’ve had three previous fantastic cruises. Despite the weather…
We would spend today crossing the North Sea in the famous shipping forecast areas, hence the title of today’s blog. We would try not to get too depressed that this was the last day of our fantastic cruise and tomorrow afternoon we would be back at work! ☹ In the Ballindalloch I enjoyed a substantial…
