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Jimbo's Cruise Blog

Jimbo's Cruise Blog

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Author: Jimbo

We love cruising and specifically we love cruising with Cunard. These blogs are intended for my own consumption, but they can also act as a repository of useful cruising knowledge for people wanting to cruise with Cunard.
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2024 Daily Reports QA Western Med 2024 Sea Days

Sailing Towards Malaga – Sunday 24th November – Day 8

07/12/202407/12/2024

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

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2024 Daily Reports Port Days QA Western Med 2024

In the Port of Malaga – Monday 25th November – Day 9

07/12/202407/12/2024

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

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2024 Daily Reports Port Days QA Western Med 2024

Gibraltar – Tuesday 26th November – Day 10

07/12/202407/12/2024

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

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2024 Daily Reports QA Western Med 2024 Sea Days

At Sea Lisbon Bound – Wednesday 27th November – Day 11

07/12/202407/12/2024

Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here It was a glorious morning, clear blue skies and little wind with a  sea as flat as a pancake. I’d woken early and opened the balcony curtains as they are very effecive blackouts, this allows us to wake slowly with the dawn, unless

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Queen Anne's Funnel looking aft
2024 Daily Reports Port Days QA Western Med 2024

Lisbon – Thursday 28th November – Day 12

07/12/202407/12/2024

Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here The approach to Lisbon along the River Tagus is always spectacular, we didn’t have the glorious sunset today but that didn’t diminish it. We’d gained an hour overnight so it was very leisurly getting ready for breakfast. No kedgeree today, I had intended

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2024 Daily Reports QA Western Med 2024 Sea Days

Steaming North Leaving the Sun – Friday 29th November – Day 13

07/12/202407/12/2024

Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here Our final port of call on this cruise behind us we are now heading north and back to winter, but we were clinging on to the last vestiges of summer with another beautiful day out on deck. First though we had breakfast to

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2024 Daily Reports QA Western Med 2024 Sea Days

Final Day at Sea – Saturday 30th November – Day 14

07/12/202407/12/2024

Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here It’s our last full day aboard Queen Anne and we have a pretty hectic schedule today. All three Insights lecturers are in action. First up though, was breakfast, I’d ordered kedgeree again, It was delicious. For some reason we’d not received tonight’s menu

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Cunard Insights
2024 Daily Reports Port Days QA Western Med 2024

Disembarkation Southampton – Sunday December 1st – Day 15

07/12/202407/12/2024

It’s always sad to be leaving the ship, more so when you’ve been having an excellent cruise. Typically we slept in on our last morning, breakfast was an early affair ending at 08:30 so it was a  bit of a rush getting in the shower, dressed and everything stashed in

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Bench on Queen Victoria
2023 Daily Reports Port Days QV Greek Islands 2023

Greek Islands – Embarkation – Day 1 – 1st Oct

23/10/202323/10/2023

It had been a stressful night on Saturday, the train strike had caused issues getting Raffy to the dog sitter’s, and Jane wasn’t able to drop him off until after 8pm, which meant that our travel plans of driving down to Southampton were postponed until this morning and all the

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2023 QV Greek Islands 2023 Sea Days

Heading South – Day 2 – 2nd Oct

22/10/202323/10/2023

Today’s Daily Programme can be found here…. We seem to have got a wriggle on since leaving Southampton and according to the Navigation information on the stateroom TV we are just south of the Bay of Bengal. A quick look out beyond the balcony shows that not to be true

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