HAMBURG Day 1 – Wednesday 3 January Well here we are again, gluttons for punishment, off on a mini cruise to Hamburg. This time we are sailing in the good ship QUEEN VICTORIA as part of a plan to try out other Cunard ships. Heaven knows why, as it is not as if weContinue reading “Blog 27. Hamburg in QUEEN VICTORIA.”
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Blog 25. Return from Australia. Limassol, Messina and Naples
Day109 Friday 28 April. At Limassol, Cyprus. 28ºC, Wind Force 2 from S. Bizarrely, we put the clocks forward last night, bucking the westward trend and throwing into question why we had put them back, just for the transit of the canal, where we did not go ashore. Cyprus hove into view on a hazyContinue reading “Blog 25. Return from Australia. Limassol, Messina and Naples”
Blog 6. Passage to Australia. Port Elizabeth
Day 20 Sunday 29 January at Port Elizabeth (PE), South Africa. The sun is shining, the air is hot, the sea is green. The official temperature is 23ºC but it feels much hotter in practice. We arrived at 0400, an event that we viewed in spirit from a horizontal position, and the brows were openContinue reading “Blog 6. Passage to Australia. Port Elizabeth”
Blog 1. Passage to Australia. Funchal
The £10 Poms. Jane had been quite ill throughout December, with considerable abdominal and chest pain that defied all medical tests and treatment. Christmas and New Year were disasters and it was touch and go whether she would be able to make the voyage to Australia in QUEEN MARY 2 in early January of theContinue reading “Blog 1. Passage to Australia. Funchal”
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