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…
Got up this morning at 7.00am as we needed to vacate cabin 6062 by eight. Going out onto our balcony for the last time, we could see we were already docked in the beautiful city of Barcelona. We were pleased to be back here; it had been over 20 years since our last visit, and…
Woke up early, around 6.00am, and became aware that the Braemar was quiet and still. Looking out of our portholes, we could see the famous White Cliffs of Dover, as we were already docked. Went back to sleep for an hour, then got up, got washed and dressed, packed our few remaining things in our hand-luggage,…
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…
Couldn’t get out of my pit this morning which wasn’t really a surprise, after a late night and lots of booze. 🙁 At least the weather was a lot calmer and the skies brighter. Today was our last day on the Boudicca (boo-hoo) so we just had to make the most of the rest of our…
When we got up this morning after another rough night at sea we were back where we started from, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Some other lucky people would be in cabin 7050 tonight, just starting their cruise, whereas for us our holiday is finished. 🙁 At the end of each voyage every passenger receives…
We were up early this morning to make the most of our last sea day (in fact, our last night on the Black Watch) before our arrival back in Newcastle tomorrow morning. 🙁 I got showered and sorted before we went up to the Neptune Lounge to listen to a lecture by polar expeditionary /historian…
Well, not a lot to write about today. We woke up back in Southampton, got up and had our breakfast and Trevor went along to the gym to see if he could get a couple of plastic glasses for our wine on the bus later on. 😉 However, when he came back he said there…
We had to be up early this morning to disembark the Marco Polo. When we looked out of our window, we could see the ship making her way slowly into Leith, the cruise terminal which acts as the gateway to Edinburgh, capital of Scotland. We could see the Royal Yacht Britannia at her permanent mooring nearby. We…
We had to get up early this morning as we always do on disembarkation day. The Balmoral was due to sail at 6.00pm tonight on her return journey to Southampton; quite a lot of the passengers (at least the ones that don’t have to go to work on Monday!) who had been on this voyage were…
