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 Oct 8, 2016
Silver Spirit, what a lovely experience

Every now and then we are lucky enough to experience some of the ships we send people on all year round, last week I was lucky enough to win one of these on board Silverseas Silver Spirit. Six star luxury , four nights from Athens to Marmaris. If you ever…

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Posted on Sep 29, 2016
Japanese night out , with a surprise!

Miyako Teppanyaki , never though you would see me here? What a fabulous experience we were giving by the lovely team @ Silverseas cruises this week. Whenever there is a get together us homeworkers flock to it, especially if its close to home like Birmingham , 15 minutes on the train…

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Posted on Sep 20, 2016
Birthdays , when does the giving stop !

This is absolutely nothing to do with cruising ! just a general idea of what people do nowadays , this is not a gripe or moan, just an observation , it did actually start because of a cruise, as I did my 50th on board P&O Oceana which all of…

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Posted on Sep 6, 2016
Families plan ahead , please !!!

Its starting again soon with P&O launching 2018 very early this year, they are offering first time passengers discounts too!! and as usual I am asking the families to plan ahead! We hear it all of the time, people calling for families with small children in the summer holidays, one…

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Posted on Aug 24, 2016
Specialty Dining at the Tuscan grille

I must say the recent experience on the Celebrity Equinox,  the Specialty dining was pretty nice, it was our wedding anniversary on 24/07/2016 always a bitter sweet day for me as we lost my mother on 24/07/2010 our one year anniversary , so petty sad, I have always said we…

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Posted on Aug 14, 2016
Monaco from Ville France

Ship Excursions, always the talk of the dinner table, whose been/going where , and how much it costs !! Now there are several ways of doing these, with the ship of course , which are usually a little pricey, but for people not used to travelling independently they can be…

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Posted on Aug 3, 2016
Celebrity Equinox what a great trip!

It was with great excitement we went off on our 7 night cruise with Celebrity from Rome to Barcelona on 23/07/2016. Just to prove I was there !    We had cabin 6208 which is the 2D category , one considered to be the worst obstruction! Well take a look…

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Posted on Jul 20, 2016
Mini chefs at sea

My grandson likes nothing better than making cookies and biscuits with me, it seems in the new culinary era we live in the kids start young , it was then, with interest I read about what MSC are offering for the new summer season. Heres the little man himself enjoying…

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Posted on Jul 12, 2016
Another night out, busy year so far !

Well tomorrow is the Travel Trade Achievement Awards in London, this will bring back memories as I stayed at the Park Plaza Westminster in 2012 during the Olympics , we had a fabulous bunch of people and I am sure any photographs I get will bring back some memories from…

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Posted on Jun 28, 2016
Carnival Vista, a real treat !

So off we flew to Crete to meet this beautiful new ship, and what a treat, balcony room and over 30 degrees in the warm sunshine ! The sunglasses on the bed if you spotted them was completely unintentional ! we needed them all of the time on this 4…

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