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Blog 100. Queen Anne, voyage No. 2, The Canary Isles
Day 2. In the Bay of Biscay. The seas are almost millpond calm, and it’s a beautiful day for cruising. Outside, there remains a slight chill, even this afternoon with the sun high in a clear sky. We are incredibly fortunate. The first full sea day of this second voyage couldn’t be better. The temperature…
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Blog 0099. I wasn’t expecting this!
Greetings from Southampton A & E! My leg injury the other day was still problematic. Rather than visit the onboard Medical Centre, I took the shuttle bus to West Quay from where I walked to Boots to seek advice at the pharmacy. I was advised (urgently) to call at A&E, who were remarkably efficient and…
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Blog 0098 The final full day of my 50th Cunard cruise.
Thursday 9th May 2024, 11.11 hrs, in the gorgeous environs of the Carinthia Lounge, deck 3, starboard, looking out onto a calm Bay of Biscay. I slept well last night, despite a weird dream about driving my car to a place somewhere in Buxton, from where it was impossible to reverse or turn around without demolishing…
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Blog 0097 Yesterday in Lisbon.
Wednesday 8th May, at sea en route for Southampton. I didn’t mean to maybe annoy the elegantly dressed lady sitting next to me at breakfast this morning. Like me, she had been on the Maiden Voyage of Queen Mary 2 just over twenty years ago and expected this to be similar in terms of celebratory…
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Blog 0096 Sorry for the Delay
It’s not my fault! Lisbon, 7th May 2024 I am not sure how many hours I have spent writing an almost daily blog, only for the illustrations to re-arrange themselves and end up with the wrong captions. So far, I see no way to edit my writings and photographs in the way I used to…
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Blog 0095 (re-written)
THE JOURNEY SO FAR I have already written, but been unable to edit satisfactorily two blogs, 0095, 0096. For some reason, probably because of varying degrees of online availability, the chosen illustrations become mixed up. Editing, deleting, and any other alterations are not as simple, obvious, or straightforward as it used to be with my…
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Blog 0094. History awaits!
Wednesday 1st May 2024. Really?! It feels like late January outside, or at least it did as I set off for Church this morning. Attending church on a Wednesday is a more recent part of my post retirement routine, now that time, although still precious, is more plentiful these days. Late yesterday afternoon/early evening, Cunard’s…
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Blog 93 Equinox
Thursday 21st March 2024 (Published 23/4/24) It will soon be time to prepare for my journey to Lisbon and La Coruna on board Cunard’s Queen Anne as she sets sail on her much awaited maiden voyage. Lucy (my long-suffering travel consultant) secured me sole occupancy of a balcony cabin, aft, on Deck 8. Of the…
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Blog 92.
Saturday 16th March 2024. Annual Christian Aid Walk around Tittesworth Reservoir So very close to home, there is some remarkable scenic countryside, a fact that I have been well aware of since moving to my present home in 1975. Back then, Fred Thurkell, whom I first knew as a result of house-hunting, introduced me to…
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Blog 0091 “Memory Lane”
A small piece of me is lamenting not having joined the QM2 2024 World Voyage to Australia, out via Tenerife, Walvis Bay, South Africa and (with luck) back via Asia the Red Sea and Suez Canal. I say “with luck” because, as I perceive in the News, tensions in the Red Sea are effectively blocking…
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