About Me
My name is Nicola Milligan and I am lucky to be living in the beautiful Market Town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, with its historic castle and haunting tales of Mother Shipton. I have a husband Stewart and a 16 year old daughter who are both cruise fanatics and a Cocker…
Posted on Oct 9, 2017
Crazy September
September, what a month that turned out to be. Hurricane's, Typhoon in Japan and the collapse of budget airline Monarch. All everyday things in the life of a Travel Agent. It is when things like this happen we cannot stress enough how important it is to book with an ATOL…
Posted on Sep 24, 2017
Worst Hurricane Season ever
I know we are all aware of the horrendous devastation caused by not just Irma but closely followed by Maria and Jose. Our heart goes out to the locals effected and we cannot comprehend what they have had to suffer. However tourism brings in millions of pounds, dollars and contributes…
Posted on Sep 7, 2017
Western Mediterranean, I thought boring how wrong was I.
Last time I told you all about the beautiful Celebrity Reflection and why I decided to take that cruise. (friends had never cruised before and wanted to play safe). I agreed on the ship with no hesitation however the itinerary did not excite me that much. I just had this…
Posted on Aug 24, 2017
Celebrity Reflection, well ???
Well where did those 11 nights go. Time passes so quickly when you are having fun as they say. Yes we most certainly did. Even John who said he would never cruise and would feel like he was on a glorified ferry !!! After a pre night in Civitavecchia in…
Posted on Aug 8, 2017
This is the life.
As you read this post I will be sunning myself on board the beautiful Celebrity Reflection. I do love my job and this is the reason I do it. I am one lucky lady who gets to work for a living selling the one thing I love to do myself…
Posted on Jul 25, 2017
La Spezia ? where.
Mediterranean cruises are calling into several ports depending on the size of the cruise ship. So Livorno is commonly know as the port to visit Florence and Pisa. This is a big industrial port so if you have been to both of those cities before not a lot for you…
Posted on Jul 12, 2017
Cruise Ships get a blasting.
I do not know if you all managed to watch the Dispatches programme on channel 4 last week but my, what a can of worms that opened. It went into great detail about the pollution and waste levels created by our Cruise Ships. They measured the air quality on board…
Posted on Jun 29, 2017
It’s only a rumour……. but
With another new ship launch planned for next year rumours are rife that she MAY be ready earlier than expected so there MAY be a pre Maiden cruise. Avid cruisers always enjoy a Maiden voyage on a brand new cruise ship, but more recently this as not always been the…
Posted on Jun 6, 2017
New competition for the Big Boys.
This week we have seen another amazing New Cruise Ship Launch. This time she is ranked as being within the top 5 biggest in the world. Royal Caribbean I hear you say ? Say hello to MSC's latest edition to their fleet, Meraviglia, making the 5000 plus passenger cruise ship…
Posted on May 23, 2017
A New River Cruise Boat.
With so many new Ocean Ships being launched on a yearly basis it makes a nice change to tell you about my second passion. River Cruising. This is a different ball game all together with most boats only holding a couple of hundred people at the most the availability certainly…
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