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All Aboard Arcadia!

Posted on December 19, 2022December 31, 2022 by bollingerbabe

A mere 24 days after we disembarked Queen Victoria, we once again found ourselves waking up at the unearthly hour of 3.45am in order to get ourselves ready and pack up all those last minute things like toiletries, cosmetics and electronic device chargers, ready for another cruise!  😊 Yes!  Once again we had to make…

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Southampton Sailaway

Posted on November 15, 2022January 12, 2023 by bollingerbabe

At 3.45 this morning, the alarm suddenly shattered the darkened silence with Alexa chirping a cheery “Rise and shine!” as the last vestiges of sleep left me and I swung my legs over the side of the bed and made my way to the bathroom.  Ordinarily we would have taken no pleasure at being awoken…

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Silhouette in Southampton

Posted on August 28, 2021March 24, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We leapt out of bed at five o’clock this morning because, once again, we are going on a cruise!!  We are certainly making up for our cruise-less year in 2020 by going on our third voyage this year.  🙂 Today, we had the long drive down to Southampton to contend with before joining the Celebrity…

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All the Way to Arcadia

Posted on November 15, 2017March 31, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Well, it might seem strange to be writing about cruising so soon after our last one, but it seemed to be a long time until our next cruise, so we decided to squeeze in a mini-cruise of three days on board the P&O ship Arcadia, a beautiful vessel on which we’ve cruised three times previously…

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Ending our Cruise with a Bang!

Posted on May 10, 2015June 30, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Well, this is the boring part. We woke up at 7.30am as we had to be out of our cabin an hour later. We went up to the packed Lido buffet for breakfast, then returned to cabin 4119, packed up all the rest of our stuff (including the bottle of Prosecco, which Trevor put in…

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Coach Trip to Cunard

Posted on May 3, 2015April 3, 2022 by bollingerbabe

In the early hours of this morning, when everyone else was still sound asleep, Trevor and I were wide awake and getting ready for another cruise. We are due to spend a week on Cunard’s Queen Victoria taking part in various events that have been organised, not only to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Cunard,…

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Southampton to Durham

Posted on June 1, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

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…

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Hidden Gems of the British Isles

Posted on May 20, 2013April 14, 2022 by bollingerbabe

In all our years of cruising, many thousands of nautical miles right across the globe, we’ve tended to neglect our own green and pleasant land with all its history, heritage and rugged beauty. So it was at 4.00am this morning that woke up and got ourselves ready for the long journey from Durham to Southampton,…

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A Glimpse of Arcadia

Posted on January 5, 2013April 28, 2022 by bollingerbabe

First of all, apologies to Macdonald Hastings for blatantly plagiarising the title of his 1971 novel, as we get ready to set off on another voyage of discovery, this time on P & O’s Arcadia, a lovely ship in which we have sailed twice before, once in 2005 and once in 2007. We were up…

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In the wake of RMS Titanic

Posted on April 8, 2012April 2, 2022 by bollingerbabe

This morning we woke up in Southampton, having journeyed down from Durham by train last night. We were due to board the M/S Balmoral at berth 46, to sail in the wake, 100 years later, of the legendary ill-fated liner Titanic. The Titanic set sail from Southampton on 10th April 1912, ultimately bound for New…

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