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
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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,
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… You could tell we were no longer in the Mediterranean when I woke at 3am, the ship had started to move about quite a bit, this was no longer a millpond we were on. I went back to sleep and when I woke I found we had already arrived in Lisbon and were alongside the cruise terminal. The day wasn’t looking too promising with regard to the weather, it was already very cloudy and I could feel spits of rain on the balcony. We hadn’t any excursions planned for the day, rather, we
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… The seas were quite rough overnight, with a lot of creaking in the stateroom, it wasn’t particularly rough compared with a trans Atlantic cruise but we have been blessed with mirror like seas for the majority of this cruise it does seem a bit bouncy. I had a busy schedule of Insight lectures starting at 10 am so after a shower and breakfast I headed down to the Royal Court Theatre for Captain John Hutchinson’s talk on the Air France Concorde tragedy and the end of Concorde. The second of the Insight’s programme
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here… The end is nigh, The sea overnight was a lot calmer even though we were in the Bay of Biscay where experience says it’s going to be lumpy in October After a quick shower and breakfast we set about killing some time to allow Myra our cabin stewardess to tidy up, so we headed down to the Winter Garden with our table mates for the 10 am quiz. We must be getting brainier as we head North as this was another quiz where we just missed out on top spot 17/20 with 18
We’ve finally arrived back in Southampton, breakfast was early and due to close at 08:00, so I had set my alarm for the first time since leaving and after one last shower we headed up to the PG restaurant for one last time. We’d been to see the Grills concierege regarding our late departure time and he’d assured us that once the announcement came that the luggage had been off-loaded then we could depart the ship, but when we got down to the gangplank, he was there controlling the departures and insisted that we couldn’t depart until our colour was