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
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Day 2 Daily Programme The first night’s sleep at sea can be a bit hit and miss, what with the movement, strange sounds and the thing that got me, the aircon. I don’t know if I was snoring but I woke an 4:30 with dry throat and sore nose, and
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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