Today’s Daily Programme is here …. Today’s Menu is here …. I had a better sleep than our first night, I must be getting used to the new bed, it is very comfortable. My watch woke me nice and early so I could do day 2 of my health regime. The gym was nice and quiet again with only one of the treadmills in use and none of the other exercise machines. I did 25 mins of mixed fast walk and jogging which took me to 2.6 kms. I do wish I had stretched out before starting because my right
Today’s Daily Programme is here …. Today’s Menu is here …. I had had a serious accident cycling to work during lock down. I’d hit a pothole and was thrown off my bike, landing awkwardly, the head of my femur punched through my pelvis breaking it into four places. This morning was the first time on a treadmill for me since this accident, so I have decided to have a go at the couch to 5km while aboard. Needless to say I have zero fitness after three years of idleness and working from home. The gym was fairly quiet with
Today’s Daily Programme can be found here…. Going out for a Valentine’s dinner the night before a three hour drive to the New Forest turned out not to be one of my better ideas. The dinner itself was very nice as was the Primativo that accompanied it, a little too nice. I woke a bit bleary eyed and if it wasn’t for the fact it was over 12 hours since my last drink I’d never have gone near the car, but we had to drive down to Jane’s Dad’s in the New Forest to have a bit of a birthday
This cruise is a 14 night Western Mediterranean Adventure aboard Cunard’s newest ship Queen Anne. This will be our first cruise on Queen Anne, and completes the set of cruising on all of Cunard’s ships. The cruise leaves Southampton today heading for Cadiz, Cartagenia, Valencia, Malaga, Gibraltar and finally Lisbon before heading home for Sunday !st December. There has been much comment about the amount of hanging space available, so Jane has been getting stressed about how much she can pack, which dresses get left behind and don’t even get me started on how many pairs of shoes is too
Day 2 Daily Programme The first night’s sleep at sea can be a bit hit and miss, what with the movement, strange sounds and the thing that got me, the aircon. I don’t know if I was snoring but I woke an 4:30 with dry throat and sore nose, and struggled to get back off after that. I did, eventually and was woken properly by Jane announcing that, wardrobes aside she really likes the PG cabin. There are lots of good points to the new cabin, yes it is smaller than the Vistas and QM2, yes the wardrobe space is
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 Hello Cadiz! I’d not heard us arriving into the port of Cadiz, the sea state has been so calm it’s easy to forget you’re actually onboard a ship at sea. When I woke we had already docked and the great thing about arriving in Cadiz is we were right in the city. We had a walking tour booked for today, so we just had a light breakfast in the restaurant, I had bircher muesli and a strangely sticky croissant, Jane, fruit and yoghourt and also one of the strangely sticky croissants. The tour
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 We’ve arrived in our second port this morning, Cartagena, it’s a pretty little town/city where wed park up right in the city. So it’s a short walk from the ship to the shops and attractions. But before we head into town we need breakfast first, that is taken in the PG restaurant as usual, bircher muesli, yum! And since we’ve been here many times we had decided to spend a little time lounging in the sun, so headed up to the Grills Terrace where we hoped to grab a sun lounger. As luck
Today’s Daily Programme Can Be Found Here I woke early again, it wasn’t even light, so I threaded my way past the coffee table, to open the balcony curtains and get my first view of Valencia on this trip. The sun was just rising and it was looking overcast. The chances of getting some sunbathing didn’t look too promising so we decided to pop into Valencia after breakfast. I has my first “full English” of the cruise, which was very nice, substituting the hash brown for an extra slice of black pudding. Cunard supplied free shuttle buses into Valencia, but