Uncategorized

Queen Anne Day 34

Cobh, Ireland June 5th, 2024 The last time we were in Cobh we had spent the day walking around Cobh. Today I decided to spend the day in Cork. It is easy to get to Cork by train, but due to my paranoia about rail strikes, I took the ship’s tour...

Read More

Sapphire Princess Day 1

March 4th, 2024 Buenos Aires Today is the day that we board the Sapphire Princess. After uneventful, but delayed flights to Buenos Aires we arrived here on a bright and sunny Monday morning. Immigration was quick and efficient, they must be used...

Read More

Queen Mary2 Day 17 Part 2

April 23rd, 2023 Southampton Well we are still on board. It’s weird, it’s almost like nothing happened. We had drinks with our friends who had been on the Queen Victoria world Voyage, and it was fun hearing about all of the excitement on their...

Read More

Idube Day 3

There were the 8 of us on our game drive this morning, with the other 4 having a different agenda to ours. It turned out to be OK as our ranger disregarded our desires anyway, and zoomed around all over the reserve, neglecting to let us know...

Read More

DAY 25

Monday April 15th   At Sea   107th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic   Well, I guess we’re not in the calm Mediterranean Sea any more. We woke up to a grey and wet day, with rough seas (5-meter swell) and a Force 8 gale...

Read More

DAY 16

Saturday April 6th   At Sea   It was another very busy day at sea. I am beginning to think that I need port days to recover from the exhaustion from sea days.   I am having ongoing issues with my craft project, but it was nothing...

Read More

DAY 7

Thursday March 28th   Salalah, Oman   Coming face to face with a camel   Having had a series of very hazy days, it was wonderful to wake up to brilliant sunshine in Salalah. We docked at about 7:00 AM, and while we consumed our...

Read More

DAY 6

June 22nd Stavanger Yay, fjords again! What better place to be but northern Norway to experience the longest day of the year. We went out on deck in the early hours of the morning, and it was still light. It was magical. I know that this region...

Read More

DAY 5

June 21st Flam Finally Fjording in Flam We were awoken this morning by the sun streaming into the cabin for a brief moment before it disappeared behind what seemed to be a mountain outside our cabin. Yay – we were finally in the fjords, and the...

Read More

PROLOGUE

Anthony Bourdain encouraged us to visit new places, meet new people and try new foods. I did this with Japan earlier this year, loved the place, loved the people, but found the food to be a bit of a challenge. It’s not that I don’t like fish....

Read More

DAY 15

March 25th At Sea On a Slow Boat to China We woke up to a totally calm sea, and thick fog. It was surreal. From our balcony I could see fishing boats appear out of the fog, and then suddenly disappear again. I hoped the captain could see where...

Read More

Itinerary

In 1962 as part of our around the world escapade my parents and I spent a blissful 6 weeks in Japan. We had no set itinerary, and just went where the train took us. We spent a week on Lake Biwa, climbed the Japanese Alps, indulged in mixed...

Read More