We had another tour booked for our visit to Katakolon — one I’d done before — to visit the ancient site of Olympia. There was no messing about with pre-registering in the Queen’s Room or theatre on this cruise; you simply turned up at the dockside at 09:35 with your
We had a tour booked, which meant an early start. Jane decided she didn’t want to get up for breakfast and ordered room service instead. I, on the other hand, was never going to miss out on a bit of silver-service attention. Unfortunately, I was woken at some ungodly hour
We had a bit of drama last night while retiring to bed. Jane climbed into her bathrobe while getting ready, only to discover it had been swapped for a new one. A nice clean bathrobe is always welcome, unfortunately the old one had her handkerchief in one pocket and her
We left Istanbul late last night, heading south to our next port of call, Piraeus for Athens. When we woke, we were already halfway through the Dardanelles. There was another running commentary on the TVs and open decks, describing the battlefields of the First World War Gallipoli campaign. It was
We had nothing planned today except to say goodbye to our tablemates. At breakfast, we sadly missed one couple—they’d already left for an early flight. The other couple was still there, as their flight was in the afternoon, so we enjoyed an extended farewell over a leisurely breakfast. I had
It was lovely arriving in Istanbul to glorious sunshine on our balcony. We have been really fortunate on this cruise with our balcony in relation to the sun, and the views, we seem to have the best aspect every day. We have a tour booked for today, a walking tour
It was the birthday of one of our tablemates today so we’d arranged to meet them for Mimosas at breakfast, which was a first as we haven’t seen them at breakfast so far on the cruise, mind you we haven’t seen our tablemates on the other side either so it’s
We had a shore excursion booked for today, Ephesus and the Terraced Houses, and when we checked the departure times we were dismayed do see it was an early start 08:45 leaving with and 08:15 meetup in the Royal Court Theatre. So I set the my alarm for 07:00 and
I’d had real issues uploading content for my blog, which had got so bad that I couldn’t upload any photos at all to Immich, after 11pm yesterday, and when I ran a speed test against the wi-fi I was getting 0.2Mbs upload and download speed, and that was when the
What a good night’s sleep, one of the beauties of a Cunard cruise is how comfortable the beds are, It doesn’t matter what class you’re travelling, either down with the rowers in steerage or up with the nobs in the Grills, we all get the same immensely comfortable Sealy Cunarder