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Month: October 2016

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Daily Reports Port Days QE Greek Islands 2016

October 14th – Departing Athens

15/10/201606/08/2021

We.returned to the ship at about 15.30 travelling back from the marina at Faliro by trolly bus into the centre of Piraeus, and then walking back the rest of the way, proper little adventurers. Greece may be on it’s uppers, but there’s still plenty of money about looking at some

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Daily Reports QE Greek Islands 2016 Sea Days

October 13th – Evening

14/10/201606/08/2021

We only had one in the Commodore Club, before heading back to the room for a nap, apparently it’s the done thing when you are our age ? Nap over and it was off to dinner, it was a Formal night tonight, so Jane was looking extra smart in the

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Menus QE Greek Islands 2016

October 14th – Menus Page

14/10/201606/08/2021

I’ve updated the daily menus page with the latest scans. The quality isn’t brilliant I’m afraid, and I’m missing a couple, last night I forgot my camera and a couple of lunches we’ve eaten out. I have requested a copy of all the menus when we leave, I will scan

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Daily Reports Port Days QE Greek Islands 2016

October 14th – Ashore in Athens

14/10/201606/08/2021

Lazy, lazy, lazy, the alarm went off as usual, at 06.50 and being a bad person I just rolled over and went back to sleep for half an hour. My first day off from running. We have arrived in Piraeus, and I now have internet access on my MIFI, so

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Daily Reports QE Greek Islands 2016 Sea Days

October 13th – At Sea, towards Athens.

13/10/201606/08/2021

I’ve just turned on the ships TV channel to see where we are on the map, we’ve transited the Straits of Messina during the night, and rounded the toe of Italy, we have travelled exactly 2400 nautical miles. The clocks went forward another hour last night, so getting out of

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Daily Reports QE Greek Islands 2016 Sea Days

October 12th – Continued

13/10/201606/08/2021

Nigel Vardy’s insights lecture was very interesting, it covered his failed attempt at the Himalayas and his misreported demise. During his attempt at the Himalayas, he and his climbing companions were reported missing after being incommunicado during a spell of severe weather. Obviously this was much exaggerated, he failed on

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Daily Reports QE Greek Islands 2016 Sea Days

October 12th – En Route to Athens

12/10/201606/08/2021

I’m aching this morning after the Palma bike ride, but I did sleep like a baby which was good. It was all a bit of a rush this morning because the fencing classes were at 08.45, so I was in the gym nice and early and did my 5km, I

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Daily Reports Port Days QE Greek Islands 2016

October 11th – Leaving Palma

12/10/201606/08/2021

Even though I had sorted out the Three data sim, the internet was bloody slow, I only had a 3G connection and it took ages to upload the photo to the previous blog. It took that long, that I had to order another drink, Pedigree for me this time and

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Daily Reports Port Days QE Greek Islands 2016

October 11th – Palma de Mallorca

11/10/201606/08/2021

I had a good sleep, waking about 20 minutes before my alarm. After puffing my way up 6 decks, I got to the gym to find two old boys on the treadmills having a walk. Surely  it’d be a damned sight more interesting walking around deck 3 (three laps is

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Daily Reports QE Greek Islands 2016 Sea Days

October 10th – Continued

11/10/201606/08/2021

Two of our dinner companions turned up in the Commodore Club, Pat and Gina, so we chatted with them while dolphin spotting out over the bow of the ship, we were rewarded with our first sighting of bone fide dolphins, proper jumping out of the water ones. The previous sightings

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