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
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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
It was nice to have a lie-in with the clocks going back overnight. It did add a little complication with the technology though — which of the many timepieces do you trust: phone, watch, computer, or the clock on the wall? Rather than relying on automatic updates, I set my
The room was rattling and squeaking all night, so when I woke at about 04:50 it took me ages to get back to sleep. I eventually resorted to digging out the Kindle and reading a couple of chapters of my latest novel before my eyes finally started to droop again.
QM2 was arriving late into Southampton this morning, apparently the sea crossing from New York had been a bit lumpy so she’d been diverted south to avoid the worst of it. We had already been informed by text by Cunard and advised to arrive one hour later than planned to
We decided to go straight to bed after dinner, it had been a hectic day and even though I fancied seeing the featured act in the theatre going to bed was the better choice. We were about to lose an hour because we were moving onto CET from GMT. It’s
I had a much better sleep, barring one thing, the Illy coffee machine started flashing during the night, and once I’d seen it I couldn’t not see it. I ended up turning it off by unplugging it. I ended up sleeping so late Jane had to nudge me awake and
We arrived in the Norwegian port of Trondheim overnight, and it’s now noticeably colder on the balcony. We had a walking tour booked for the morning so Jane had decided to get room service for breakfast and have a lie in but I like the Grills Restaurant for breakfast so
Jane nudged me at 08:45 reminding me I needed to get myself up and dressed if I wanted to make breakfast, but I was still feeling full after the excellent meal in Bamboo the previous evening, so I grunted and turned over and went back to to sleep for a
We were going to have a quiet day as we had our Northern Light’s tour booked for later in the afternoon. So after a leisurely breakfast where I had my first fry-up it was time to do some laundry. There aren’t any launderettes on deck 9 so I was tasked