A combination of late nights, too many cocktails (or quite possibly both) meant I didn’t get out of my pit until 8.40am. Even then, I didn’t go up to breakfast, I just had a cup of coffee in the cabin while getting ready, and Trevor brought me back a muffin and an orange from the…
1st July. Wow – were we into the second half of 2023 already?! This year is certainly flying. We woke up early this morning, 7.20am in fact. This is because I had a session of “Pure Bliss” booked in the Green Sea Spa at eight o’clock. This was an hour-long massage session, consisting of a…
When we woke up this morning, we were surprised to see that the Bolette was at anchor off land; a quick look at the MarineTraffic app showed that we were in Kristiansand. We couldn’t understand it – we were supposed to be at sea today. What was happening? About an hour later, the Bolette weighed…
Woke up at eight o’clock this morning in pleasant anticipation of the relaxing sea day we had ahead of us. But at the same time, it was not without a tinge of dismay that we realised we only had four more sleeps on board the good ship Bolette. 🙁 Going outside onto our massive balcony,…
When we woke up this morning in our suite (!!) around eight o’clock it was with a smile on our faces as we anticipated the leisurely sea day ahead of us. Trevor went up to The View for his breakfast, but I decided to have a coffee and enjoy some of the fresh fruit in…
Sweet dreams are made of this,Who am I to disagree?I’ve travelled the world and the seven seas… The Eurythmics During the night we had had to put our watches forward one hour in line with European time, so it meant an hour in bed lost. Therefore, when the alarm went off at 8.00am it was…
Got up about 8.30 this morning and looked out of our balcony doors at a grey choppy sea and a grey cloudy sky. Didn’t think we would spend much time out on deck today! We had been looking forward to our visit to Belgium as we had planned to get the train from Zeebrugge to…
At some point during the night we had woken up to see that the Arcadia was on the move again, making her way back along the North Sea canal. It was a pity we weren’t in Amsterdam again today, but we had a nice relaxing day at sea to look forward to instead. 🙂 In…
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…
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…
