This cruise is a 14 night Western Mediterranean Adventure aboard Cunard’s newest ship Queen Anne. This will be our first cruise on Queen Anne, and completes the set of cruising on all of Cunard’s ships. The cruise leaves Southampton today heading for Cadiz, Cartagenia, Valencia, Malaga, Gibraltar and finally Lisbon before heading home for Sunday !st December. There has been much comment about the amount of hanging space available, so Jane has been getting stressed about how much she can pack, which dresses get left behind and don’t even get me started on how many pairs of shoes is too
Day 2 Daily Programme We had a lazy afternoon followed by a trip up to the Commodore Club, we were going to try the Grills Lounge for our early evening livener – Doombar was the order of the day and for Jane a Ginger Cosmo as that was on the CC menu, she reckons it’s twangy? The beer glasses are straight from the freezer so and nice and cold, I’m not sure it’s required on a chilly Monday in the Bay of Biscay, but it’ll be nice if the weather improves further South. We had a lazy afternoon followed by
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here I had a really good sleep last night, despite almost falling out of bed, god knows what happened there. We’d turned the aircon off, and although it was quite warm in the room, it was quiet and I wasn’t all dried out when I woke. The clocks went forward overnight so we were robbed of an hour’s sleep but I had remembered to set my alarm for 6:45 UK time just to check if I wasn’t dreaming and the clocks really had gone forward. Breakfast was in the Princess Grill restaurant, and the
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here Hello Cadiz! I’d not heard us arriving into the port of Cadiz, the sea state has been so calm it’s easy to forget you’re actually onboard a ship at sea. When I woke we had already docked and the great thing about arriving in Cadiz is we were right in the city. We had a walking tour booked for today, so we just had a light breakfast in the restaurant, I had bircher muesli and a strangely sticky croissant, Jane, fruit and yoghourt and also one of the strangely sticky croissants. The tour
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here I’d forgotten to turn off my 06:45 work alarm so was woken early and after a couple of minutes deciding whether to go back to sleep I decided to get up and open the curtains out to the balcony, it was still dark, and I could see lights I assume from the Spanish coast off in the distance, we’s passed Gibraltar at 4 am so that was behind us. What was the plan for today, It was nice and sunny so the intention was to get some time in the sun up on
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here We’ve arrived in our second port this morning, Cartagena, it’s a pretty little town/city where wed park up right in the city. So it’s a short walk from the ship to the shops and attractions. But before we head into town we need breakfast first, that is taken in the PG restaurant as usual, bircher muesli, yum! And since we’ve been here many times we had decided to spend a little time lounging in the sun, so headed up to the Grills Terrace where we hoped to grab a sun lounger. As luck
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here I woke early again, it wasn’t even light, so I threaded my way past the coffee table, to open the balcony curtains and get my first view of Valencia on this trip. The sun was just rising and it was looking overcast. The chances of getting some sunbathing didn’t look too promising so we decided to pop into Valencia after breakfast. I has my first “full English” of the cruise, which was very nice, substituting the hash brown for an extra slice of black pudding. Cunard supplied free shuttle buses into Valencia, but
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here Today was a sea day after leaving Valencia last night we are sailing on a pan flat sea heading back south towards Malaga. The sun is out and it’s going to be glorious. We took breakfast as usual in the PG restaurant, bircher muesli and a scrambled egg and crispy bacon bagel. The sun was out on Deck 11, the Grills Terrace where Jane grabbed a lounger in the sun for a couple of hours chilling. It was going to be a lazy day, or at least a lazy morning. We had a
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here We’d decided to have a leisurely breakfast this morning followed by some relaxing time on the Grills Terrace to let the hoards of day trippers vacate the ship. This was a good idea even though it was overcast early on the sun broke through soon enough and we has a toasty deck 11 all to ourselves. Jane even ventured into the Jacuzzi to get a good bubbling. Once she’d dried off it was time for us to follow the rest of the ship into Malaga. We’d decided to eat off the ship, possibly
The plan today was the tried and tested one we’d used all cruise, after breakfast head upstairs to the Grills Terrace and grab some rays and let all the old dears head off the ship. We’d then follow after lunch, do our Xmas shopping and job done! Unfortunately it was grey and overcast and although not cold, but it wasn’t a lot of fun lying on a lounger reading my book, so we joined the hoards processing their way off the ship and up Main Street. It’s a long boring walk into Gibraltar from the port and doesn’t get interesting