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
Category: Sea Days

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

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

The clocks went forward overnight, which meant that when I woke up I was a little confused about what time it actually was my watch said seven am, and I assumed that because my watch was tied to my Garmin account and GPS time it would not change. so I

I had a disturbed night with a work call from Asia at 02:45, I informed them I was on holiday and to speak to my colleague and tried to get back to sleep, which took a while. I woke for a second time at 08:30 to a grey old Amsterdam

It was a solo breakfast for me first thing, it usually is, what with the excitement of the cruise, half a bottle of Pol Acker, Commodore cocktails and shared a bottle of Montagnes 1er Cru at dinner plus port with her cheese, Jane was a little jaded and had already

We’re all at Sea today, so it was nice to have a lie in and have a relaxed breakfast. My first insights lecture wasn’t until 10:30 as Phil Holt was first up, and I’ve seen all of his offerings several times. We had breakfast in the PG restaurant, a basic

It was our penultimate sea day, which meant there were to be insights lectures for me to attend. For Jane it would be a day of sunbathing and just general chilling out. I headed off to breakfast first as I had an 9:15 lecture so an early breakfast with Jane

It was ever so nice to have a lie in for a change, crawling out of my pit and into the shower in time for breakfast at 09:00. We were bad today, having pancakes with maple syrup, eggs easy over, crispy bacon and sausage. Naughty but nice. We were all

We ended up getting to dinner a little later than usual last night. We have a table for two in these new post Covid times, which last time out worked quite well as we had a friendly, chatty couple sat next to us. Time will tell how this cruise fares,