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Christmas at Sea

Posted on December 25, 2022January 6, 2023 by bollingerbabe

CHRISTMAS DAY Well, this was a first for us – we’ve never spent Christmas day anywhere else in our lives but at home. Here we were, in the North Sea en route to Amsterdam, and we wondered what delights P&O Cruises had in store for us. We hated to say it, but so far our…

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Heading North

Posted on December 20, 2022December 31, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We got up around 8.30am this morning (which felt like 7.30 because of the lost hour).  Going out onto our balcony, it wasn’t freezing cold, but the sky and the sea were a dull grey and there was a lot of moisture in the air.  The balcony contained a small table and couple of deckchairs…

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Set Sail! Farewell to the Land

Posted on November 23, 2022December 5, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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…

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A Home on the Rolling Deep

Posted on November 16, 2022November 26, 2022 by bollingerbabe

A life on the ocean wave,A home on the rolling deep,Where the scatter’d waters raveAnd the winds their revels keep. Henry Russell, 1838 Woke up several times in the night; if it wasn’t because I was rolling from side to side in bed it was because of the torrential rain that lashed our balcony, accompanied…

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Moët and Masks

Posted on October 15, 2018March 29, 2022 by bollingerbabe

OUR PEARL (30th) WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Masquerade! Paper faces on paradeMasquerade! Hide your face so the world will never find youMasquerade! Every face a different shadeMasquerade! Look around, there’s another mask behind you From “The Phantom of the Opera” Trevor and I were married on 15th October 1988, so today we were celebrating our 30th wedding…

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In the Mood for Dancing

Posted on October 7, 2018March 29, 2022 by bollingerbabe

After an excellent’s night sleep, during which time the Queen Victoria glided through the calm Mediterranean sea, we got up around 8.15am and went out on the balcony to see what the weather was like. It was pleasant; not too hot or too cold, just ideal for strolling the decks. The Lido self-service restaurant was…

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North Sea to the Kiel Canal

Posted on August 15, 2017April 1, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We awoke this morning to a flat-calm North Sea with the sun tentatively peeping out from fluffy white cumulus clouds.  We were up at 8.00am, and off we went to the Ballindalloch restaurant for our breakfast.  As tonight is a formal evening, we found the usual bottles of cava next to the fruit juices, so…

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All At Sea

Posted on March 16, 2017April 2, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Didn’t really sleep very well last night because of my cold.  So I was tired this morning and didn’t want to go up to breakfast, despite the fact that tonight will be the last formal night and the free fizz would be on offer.  🙂 Instead, I just took a leisurely shower and blow-dried my…

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Beach and Beer

Posted on March 3, 2017April 2, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Woke up early this morning as we were still on British time.  So we leapt out of bed around 6.45am and happily made our way up to the Grampian restaurant for breakfast.  As tonight would see the first of three Formal nights, we knew that there would be free Buck’s Fizz or prosecco/cava on offer…

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It’s Brilliant on the Boudicca

Posted on August 27, 2016April 2, 2022 by bollingerbabe

I was tired when the alarm went off this morning, probably because of a combination of late nights and overindulgence, as well as the clocks having to go forward an hour again this morning.  So it was around 8.45am before I go out of my pit and got washed and dressed before breakfast.  Outside, the…

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