Site Title

Monday 24th August 2026. Steps, 7,800 It’s 08.48 hrs.  I could have ⁶done with waking a little later this morning.  It looks like being a decent day.  And It’s hard to believe that tomorrow, normality resumes with the South coast of England becoming ever distant as Clive and I drive north to Buxton. I suppose…

Sunday 23/8/26 Steps 9,435 This really is the last full day of freedom.  Tomorrow, (actually, it’s later today) much of the day will be taken up with the dreaded paccking of which I have already made a good start.  Also tomorrow, Fr. Michael and Emily will be joining me for a final lunch at Steakhouse…

This morning, Saturday 22nd August, and the weather is abysmal! I only just made it for a breakfast of oatmeal, banana, honey and a splodge of plain yoghurt. I don’t really know where we are right now, except we are steaming north-east in the direction of Cornwall.  I assume that there may be some excitement…

The second of six sea days. Steps, My sleep during the night was somewhat disturbed by the muffled sound of the ships siren owing to continuing sea fog on the North Atlantic, this reminding me a little of overnight Amtrak rail journeys in the U.S.A. where it is mandatory for locomotive engineers to sound two…

Wednesday 19th August 2026 Steps, 7,935. I awoke at a respectable 7 o’clock this morning to the distant but recogniseable rumble of periodic blasts of the ship’s siren, mandatory during foggy or misty conditions. I switched the T.V. to Channel 40, which provides a continuous forward view from a Bridge mounted C.C.T.V.  The colours were…

Writing Wednesday 19th August Steps, 15,831 Yesterday may have been my final time in New York, or for that matter, North America.  However, I do have a reservation on a January 2028 voyage to the Caribbean. I was awake around 5 am yesterday morning, feeling that it was later in the day.  At 6 o’clock,…

15 of us gathered in the Board Room, Deck 9, adjacent to the Commodore Club for the final Christian Fellowship meeting of this section of the voyage.  All but two of us are disembarking tomorrow. Us?  I only joined the group this morning because at 5am, my body clock was kidding me that it was…

Steps 7,815 11.00hrs It’s still misty out there and we are now three hours behind U.K. time. After last night’s show, all seemed quieter around much of the ship.  Amethyst were playing in the Golden Lion and I stayed for a couple of numbers before returning to my stateroom.  This morning, I’m still slightly fragile…

Steps 4,402. Day 2/5 Reykjavik to New York. Today, I feel vastly better than yesterday when I needed to smile through a degree of self-inflicted gastric discomfort.   I passed on eating in the main restaurant, choosing to have very simple food in the Kings Court Buffet where I enjoyed fine sunset views which had followed…

Steps: 4,075 This is day 1 of 5 sea days between Reykjavik and Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.  We have covered c220  nautical miles since our late night departure from Reykjavik and have over 2,000 nautical miles to sail to New York.  I rather think that I over did it in the Britannia Restaurant last night. I…