Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… It was hard losing the hour last night especially as we had a bit of a late one (for us) but I slept far better than the previous few nights, only being woken a couple of times due to a coughing fit. We’d remembered to set our timepieces and when I woke at 7:45 it was 7:45 which meant I managed to start off the day without getting shouted at, a rare and nice event. I did allow Jane to sleep a little too long though and she didn’t surface until ten to
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Today’s Daily Programme can be found here…. Another night and another slightly better sleep, I woke at 07:45 just as we were docking at the port of Heraklion in Crete. This is an unscheduled replacement for Mykonos where forecasted high winds made the tendering there unsafe. There’s a slight problem this morning, Jane has a slightly scratchy throat, which may be down to the Air-con, but may equally be my lurgy. Although I never had a scratchy throat. I went to breakfast alone with instructions to bring back a Bircher muesli and some honey, I got half of the order correct,
I slept much, much better, admittedly waking early at 06:15, to find we were already at dock in Piraeus. The view today wasn’t so nice, with the Cruise Terminal opposite. We’ve been to Athens a few times and Jane needs to get some more laundry out of the way, plus three consecutive days out may be a bit tiring given I’m still getting over my cold. I was all set to head to do the laundry again before breakfast when she decided that I wasn’t to be trusted. How am I ever going to be able to get my little
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… It was bright and sunny this morning and when I opened the curtains of the stateroom we were already in Santorini. I’d have said moored up, but as the bay at Santorini is 400 meters deep, I think that is beyond our anchor chains, apparently we are holding station using the engines. I’m now pretty much back to health, I’m sleeping well and only have the occasional cough which is good. Our trip today is another late one, we have to meet up in the Queens room at 12:45 so we decided to
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… Today is our first sea day for what seems like an age but is only 4 days, so after a good nights sleep it was back to planning my morning. First we had to get breakfast out of the way so we had a quick shower and headed up to the PG restaurant for something to eat. After the Bircher muesli I’d ordered a mushroom and chilli omelette with a side order of black pudding, when it arrived it was indeed an omelette, with mushroom and chilli, but with a slice of something
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… We’d had a massive electrical storm overnight, to be honest I’d not noticed a thing and slept right through it, but Jane said it was spectacular. When I finally woke it was a lovely morning with beautiful views over Argostoli. The early shore excursions were already on their way off the ship and it wasn’t yet 08:00. We were going to have a stroll around Argostoli in the morning as we hadn’t had any excursions booked, so it was a leisurely potter before going for breakfast. We were docked right in town so
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… We got a very welcome extra hour in bed with the clocks going back overnight as we transited towards Italy, this was needed as our stateroom was incredibly hot last night which meant Jane struggled to sleep and it was only when we propped open the balcony door that it became bearable for sleeping. Although this presented Jane with a whole other bunch of issues, what if we sleepwalk and fall over board and there were a lot of extra noises/lack of noises to contend with. I had just kicked off my covers
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… We had a busy day ahead of us as we’d decided to take an excursion in Cagliari. I had really fancied a walking tour around the city, but the only walking tour was a hike up Devil’s saddle and I really didn’t fancy that so we opted for the Ancient Sardinia one which was a trip to the Roman ruins at Nora, about 30 kms West of the city. We had a tour time of 09:15 and the Daily Programme said to meet at the dock at 09:05. This meant a reasonably early
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… The room temperature is all over the place, I woke some time after midnight, sweating, having kicked off my covers, then after dropping off again I woke about 4am, this time freezing, it’s as if the air-con kicked in some time during the night. I eventually woke properly at about 7 am, it was still cold in the room, and pitch black as I wandered over to the balcony curtains to let in a little light, it was still dark outside and as we were steaming West there wasn’t even a hint of
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… The room temperature seems to have normalised, the air-con setting is fully in the blue, but the cabin is no longer very warm, it’s not a cold as you’d expect where the dial is set, but it was fresh overnight. Captain Hoyte had promised stormy and unsettled weather for the last couple of days which hadn’t materialised and this morning was no different with a mirror flat sea. I’ve settled into a bit of a breakfast routine with Bircher muesli followed by a couple of slices of sourdough, english bacon and fried eggs,