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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...

Feeling tired, Pam rose at 10am and went to the buffet for cereal for breakfast. Mark stayed in bed until 11am and skipped breakfast...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Happy Easter Sunday everybody. Onboard today are a number of different religious services taking place with the main, multi-faith,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...