This cruise has had a bit of a chequered start. Our original flights were scheduled to travel from London City Airport to Barcelona, which was ideal for us, LCY is a fantastic little airport and only thirty minutes away from us by taxi, so ideal. That wasn’t to be and
Category: Sea Days
I had a much better sleep than the previous night in Barcelona, it’s nice to back in the, oh so comfy Cunard beds and fluffy pillows. On the first day Jane never feels like making it to breakfast, scuppered by a combination of excitement and booze she’d already preempted not
What a good night’s sleep, one of the beauties of a Cunard cruise is how comfortable the beds are, It doesn’t matter what class you’re travelling, either down with the rowers in steerage or up with the nobs in the Grills, we all get the same immensely comfortable Sealy Cunarder
It was the birthday of one of our tablemates today so we’d arranged to meet them for Mimosas at breakfast, which was a first as we haven’t seen them at breakfast so far on the cruise, mind you we haven’t seen our tablemates on the other side either so it’s
We left Istanbul late last night, heading south to our next port of call, Piraeus for Athens. When we woke, we were already halfway through the Dardanelles. There was another running commentary on the TVs and open decks, describing the battlefields of the First World War Gallipoli campaign. It was
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.
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
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