Things are starting to get exciting again, here at Chez Jimbo. The suitcases have been retrieved from the shed, dresses and suits are starting to appear, hanging full length from wardrobe doors in the spare room. Labels, eTickets and a myriad of COVID related documentation is sitting on the printer ready for fileing. It’s time for another cruise, one with real ports and the opportunity to see and step onto a foreign land for the first time since late 2019. Better than that it’s also our first foray into the Grills, Cunard’s more exclusive suite offering. We’re in the Princess
Category: Pre-cruise
It’s all starting again, last week Queen Elizabeth set off on her first post-covid cruise, now it’s nearly our time. It’s two days before boarding and getting very exciting. All paperwork has now been completed and printed off. All the packing has been mostly done, just waiting for a couple of items to be returned from the cleaners. Our departure is slightly different this year, normally we’d head off to the New Forest to stay the night at Jane’s Dad’s place and get dropped off by him at the terminal in the morning. This year John and Bess are travelling
We’re all set for this year’s cruise to the Caribbean. Work has been finished and we took the train this afternoon, from London Waterloo to New Milton, in the New Forest, where Jane’s dad lives. The only thing left to do is for me to have a haircut tomorrow morning and the we’ll be heading off to the Ocean Terminal in Southampton and board the ship.
It’s nearly here, we’re all packed, and Minty has been farmed off to Aunty Sarah for his two week’s holiday. The drive down to the south coast started off in glorious sunshine, little did we realise that it’s Bonham’s London to Brighton vintage car rally this Sunday which made for an interesting, if slow journey until we got to the M25. The rest of the trip was uneventful though and we arrived in the New Forest all ready for tomorrow’s embarkation.
I will be posting my upcoming cruise here in the next week or two. We are travelling on the Greek Islands cruise on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth. A first for us on this ship having sailed on the Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria previously. It is a seventeen night cruise leaving Southampton on October 7th and calling at the following ports: Palma – Majorca Athens Heraklion – Crete Katakolon – Greece Sarande – Albania Messina – Sicily Cadiz – Spain Returning to Southampton on the 24th October. We have two shore excursions booked so far on the cruise. The