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Apr 22nd - Last Blog
And so we have come to our last day of the cruise and the last blog. We will include the small part of our journey home at the end of...
pameladawnferris
Apr 23, 20235 min read
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Apr 21st - Sea Day 2
Feeling tired, Pam rose at 10am and went to the buffet for cereal for breakfast. Mark stayed in bed until 11am and skipped breakfast...
pameladawnferris
Apr 23, 20233 min read
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Apr 20th - Sea Day
Three sea days left and then we are home. After last night’s partying we stayed in bed and skipped breakfast and our first item of the...
pameladawnferris
Apr 22, 20234 min read
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Apr 19th - Santa Cruz, Tenerife
Today we are in Tenerife. We have been here before, via a cruise and in this same port. It was about 7 years and it looks in worse shape...
pameladawnferris
Apr 21, 20233 min read
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Apr 18th - Sea Day 8
A slow morning for us and we skipped breakfast. Our dirty laundry has built up again so we did a couple washes in the morning around...
pameladawnferris
Apr 21, 20233 min read
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Apr 17th - Sea Day 7
Pam was up well before Mark who finally left the cabin at 11am. Feeling hungry, Pam had a big buffet breakfast then sauntered along deck...
pameladawnferris
Apr 19, 20234 min read
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Apr 16th - Sea Day 6
Pam awoke first again, at 9am. She had a quick breakfast of cereal and tea in the kings court before her talk at 10am. It was by Diane...
pameladawnferris
Apr 19, 20234 min read
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Apr 15th - Sea Day 5
We got up at 8.30am and went to breakfast in the buffet where Mark was desperate for home comforts that he had beans on toast. Pam had...
pameladawnferris
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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Apr 14th - Sea Day 4
A busy day today so we got up at 9am and had breakfast in the King’s Court buffet before we both went to the lecture on Louis XVI and...
pameladawnferris
Apr 17, 20236 min read
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Apr 13th - Sea Day 3
The clocks went back again whilst we slept so we are once again on the same time zone as the UK (GMT+1 - British Summer Time). Mark was...
pameladawnferris
Apr 16, 20234 min read
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Apr 12th - Sea Day 2
Yesterday was a dossy day and today was the opposite. Today is the 100th day of our holiday. It seems to have flown by. If you have read...
pameladawnferris
Apr 14, 20233 min read
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Apr 11th - Sea Day 1
This was a very lazy sea day which was needed after yesterday’s exertions and food. Pam awoke at 8.40 and read and left a waking Mark, at...
pameladawnferris
Apr 13, 20233 min read
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Apr 10th - Walvis Bay, Naimbia
We were originally meant to dock in Walvis Bay at and due to go on an excursion to the Mondessa township at 9:30. Due to the delay...
pameladawnferris
Apr 13, 20235 min read
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Apr 9th - At Sea on Easter Sunday
Happy Easter Sunday everybody. Onboard today are a number of different religious services taking place with the main, multi-faith,...
pameladawnferris
Apr 13, 20235 min read
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Apr 8th - Cape Town, Day 2
No shore excursion today. It is a do it yourself hop on, hop off bus and Table mountain day for us instead. We were up at 8am and had a...
pameladawnferris
Apr 10, 20235 min read
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Apr 7th - Cape Town, Day 1
We got up at 7am with a welcome to Cape Town call, from the bridge, piped into our cabin. We were planning to get up at 7:15am anyway....
pameladawnferris
Apr 10, 20234 min read
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Apr 6th - Sea Day
Mark was awake at 6:30 and moved out onto the balcony to read and write. Pam was awake by 7:15 and also relaxed and read. We had...
pameladawnferris
Apr 8, 20233 min read
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Apr 5th - Port Elizabeth, South Africa
We are in Port Elizabeth but the view from our cabin is a giant car park and to be honest, there is not much to see from this industrial...
pameladawnferris
Apr 7, 20234 min read
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Apr 4th - Sea Day
We were absolutely shattered and aching so stayed in bed until 9.30. In fact Mark stayed longer and Pam only surfaced to go to the next...
pameladawnferris
Apr 7, 20233 min read
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Apr 3rd - Durban, South Africa
Today we are in Durban and it is the last of our big ticket tours that we had bought months and months ago. All the other ones had gone...
pameladawnferris
Apr 5, 20234 min read
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