Category: Sea Days

Day 2 Daily Programme We had a lazy afternoon followed by a trip up to the Commodore Club, we were going to try the Grills Lounge for our early evening livener – Doombar was the order of the day and for Jane a Ginger Cosmo as that was on the CC menu, she reckons it’s twangy? The beer glasses are straight from the freezer so and nice and cold, I’m not sure it’s required on a chilly Monday in the Bay of Biscay, but it’ll be nice if the weather improves further South.  We had a lazy afternoon followed by

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 I woke. The clocks went forward overnight so we were robbed of an hour’s sleep but I had remembered to set my alarm for 6:45 UK time just to check if I wasn’t dreaming and the clocks really had gone forward. Breakfast was in the Princess Grill restaurant, and the

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, and I could see lights I assume from the Spanish coast off in the distance, we’s passed Gibraltar at 4 am so that was behind us. What was the plan for today, It was nice and sunny so the intention was to get some time in the sun up on

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 muesli and a scrambled egg and crispy bacon bagel. The sun was out on Deck 11, the Grills Terrace where Jane grabbed a lounger in the sun for a couple of hours chilling. It was going to be a lazy day, or at least a lazy morning. We had a

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 you’re lazy like me and sleep straight though until 8:45 and was nearly late for breakfast. Luckily I’m in and out of the shower in minutes and we were sitting down in the restaurant at 09;05. I love kedgeree and I’d asked the Head Waiter if it was possible to

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 navigate in the PG restaurant and very nice it was too, spicy mushroom  and extra chilli omelette. I headed down to the Royal Court Theatre after breakfast to see the first of the Insights lectures which was Nancy Appleyard exploring the complexities of the English Language. This was followed by

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 last evening so we weren’t sure whether to order the Dover Sole again, there was a possibility, albeit slim, that tandoori lamb cutlets might feature but they didn’t so Dover Sole was ordered for tonight’s dinner. The first of today’s Insights lectures was Keith Appleyard talking about Bletchley Park and