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This morning, before breakfast, I proof-read yesterday’s already published blog.  Any tidying up and re-writing today should have come through.  To read again if you wish, click on “uncategorized” at the foot of this blog, then click on the date of yesterday’s Blog 190 to re read the entire entry for yesterday. Today is another…

This morning, I spent an hour or so reading through and amending yesterday’s blog 189.  If you read it earlier on, it’s worth re -reading as it gives much more detail.  However, I still forgot to mention for some, the most important day of the voyage, January 25th the anniversary of the birth of Robbie…

NELSON’BOAT YARD, SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. There are five passenger ships in port today.  The port city was packed throughout the day with suggestions of upto 14 000 invading the seemingly not large city of St. John’s.  The view from my stateroom window was of just a section of the massive P&O cruise ship Iona which dwarfed…

SUNDAY 25th JANUARY 2026 Each column from left to right represents a port visited in order of when called at. There may only be one fridge magnet in the column.  I did something similar on the first three voyages of Queen Anne back in 2024.  On this voyage, we call at 10 Caribbean ports.  Visited…

Sea days are welcome right now, sandwiched between blocks of three or even four days in different ports.  At 28°C with part cloudy skies, days like these are to be savoured and enjoyed as much as possible.  This morning I just managed to grab breakfast before the Lido on Deck 9 closed at 10.30.  I…

Once again I’m reluctant to stray from the comforts of being on board. Nevertheless, my  coming this way again is highly unlikely.  But I think it’s souvenir buying time again. Let’s take a wander. 11.17 hrs 22/1/26.  Ah! It’s raining again. Time for a quick coffee. (Actually, I didn’t bother).  It’s quite a trek from…

ONE HAPPY ISLAND. We have two days here, not sailing until 17.00hrs tomorrow. Temperatures of 30°C  are predicted. Aruba is c12°55 N.  Its hottest month is August, but it doesn’t do too badly in January. It’s coming back to me. “Aruba – One Happy Island.”  I really didn’t recognise anything this morning until eventually, I…

20th January 2026. Another warm morning, 25°C  again with occasional heavy showers and a predicted high of 28°C 08.27 hrs Today marks the completion of half of this 35 night voyage.  Afternoon tea in Madeira feels a lifetime ago. Yet, this almost halfway stage seems (like Christmas!) to have crept up quickly and unexpectedly. Two…

This is the place to be in January. I have to confess to not doing very much today.  It was magnificently warm outside, its being so hot prompting me to actually attend Jennie Bond’s final appearance in the Royal Court Theatre!  She is a highly skilled and entertaining speaker who appeared to have the “audience…

I was up earlier than usual today after a relaxing and rejuvenating sleep, ‘though not quite early enough to watch as Queen Victoria berthed at today’s port, Kingstown.  The (again) dramatic backdrop seems to bear a resemblance to both those of Castries, St. Lucia and St. George’s, Grenada. I plan to do what I did…