About Me
Born in Coventry in 1961 at Gulson Road Hospital, making me a true Coventarian!! I moved to South Africa at the tender age of 19 to live two years with my husband to "try it out" Way back then in 1981 the South African government kindly paid our fare. We…
Posted on Feb 12, 2017
Cruise ships are not like taking a bus, there wont be another one along in a minute !
The title may sound harsh, but unfortunately there are people that think "it may do that trip again" well yes it will but not the next day and sometimes not even the next month. My favourite are the re-positioning cruises , this is when the ships are coming over for…
Posted on Jan 29, 2017
P&O Adonia is back, many happy customers
Last year P&O announced that Adonia was off to pastures new for a stint in the Caribbean, as a sort of working/giving back type of cruise, my understanding of it. Basically, you go on the cruise, and for the first time children would be allowed, visiting the islands and helping…
Posted on Jan 17, 2017
Cunard Accessible cabins , how many are there on Queen Mary ?
Accessible cabins are always difficult to find , on some cruise lines its as easy as ticking a box and only these cabins will appear. We wish this to be the case with Cunard/P&O/Princess who all operate on the same booking system. Every grade has to be checked, and when…
Posted on Jan 3, 2017
Happy New Year welcome 2017
Well what a busy year that 2016, kicking off from April , right through to December, I had to count up my trips on our recent annual conference on Fred Olsen. I had some of my own holidays . and lucky to get lots of trips. (You can just about…
Posted on Dec 22, 2016
Table mountain, Cape Town
As I have said in my previous blog we did make it up the mountain , probably the hottest day, about 35 degrees! As Dean was born in SA he got the trip for free, you do need to provide an authentic SA ID number to qualify. otherwise about R255…
Posted on Dec 10, 2016
Back from Africa!
Well what a trip. a lovely 8 nights in Cape Town, seeing all of my friends and generally eating/drinking too much, there was even one lazy day by the pool !! We had a great flight on the new A380 from Birmingham to Dubai , what a plane , the…
Posted on Nov 26, 2016
Cape Town Calling !
As some people know I spent over twenty years in the Mother City, this is the view when you fly in over the ocean, which I will be doing this weekend ! On one of my favourite airlines (Emirates) from Birmingham, bit of a long trek with the change over,…
Posted on Nov 16, 2016
Equinox , a special visit to Majorca
After I had booked my little cruise on Equinox in July , I discovered that my daughter had booked her summer holiday in Majorca, and how lucky are our last stop was in Majorca, and to make it even more special it was her birthday 29th of July. We always…
Posted on Nov 1, 2016
Independence of the seas my first time!
Back again from my first time sailing with Royal Caribbean from Southampton, and what a lovely trip with a great bunch of ladies (and one outnumbered gentleman!) Check in at Southampton went pretty smooth, just the sheer amount of passengers does create a few queues, this is where you should…
Posted on Oct 23, 2016
2016 What a busy year !
This year has definitely confirmed my decision to join Cruise.co.uk was the best one ever !! Take a look at what I have been up to April 2016 started with an overnight stay on Ovation of the seas What an amazing ship, way too short though the year continued to…
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