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Let’s start this blog with our ship tour section and finish off the area in front of the Britannia restaurant on Deck 3. First there is...

Wow, it is April. Month 4 of our long adventure. both awoke around 8am and had breakfast in the Kings court buffet which was moorish as...

The clocks went back again overnight so we are now only 2hrs ahead of the UK. Pam got up at but left Mark, who was sleeping like a baby...

A new day and another new port. This time we are visiting the island of Reunion. However, before we move onto that, let us state that...

We have reached land again - hurrah. We awoke at 7ish to find ourselves just docked in the wonderful island of Mauritius. We had another...

The clocks went back again (only 3 hours ahead of UK now) and Mark was on the balcony by 7:30. It fills like another warm day. We spent...

Mark was up before Pam as usual and out on the balcony where it was dry and humid - apparently 25c. We had to get our passports back,...

This Sunday was a strange day. We put the clocks back another hour to GMT+5 but the UK put their clocks forward for British Summer Time...

Mark awoke around 6:30 again - this is the cause of the afternoon naps - Pam awoke after eight. As is his ritual, Mark read and wrote on...

We had another long sleep but the clocks went back another hour so we didn’t miss breakfast. Mark had a small breakfast of poached egg on...

We fell asleep before 11pm last night and Mark awoke up at 6am and couldn’t get back to sleep - obviously too much sleep yesterday. After...

We awoke at around 8:30am but it was 7:30am as the clocks went back an hour overnight - now 7hrs ahead of the UK. We are getting closer...

We don’t board our ship home until 3:15pm but although we have a delayed checkout we met vacate by noon. We had breakfast in Dome again...

First up the weather. Today started at 27c reached highs of 37c and ended around 27c. For us brits that is silly season weather and...

We had a lie in and breakfast in the hotel before ordering a taxi and heading off to the airport for our final flight - off to Perth....

Today is for exploring Adelaide but after yesterdays excursion we slept in and also knocked off a wash as one of us woke earlier than the...

Today is a tour day. We have booked to go to Kangaroo island which is Australia’s 3rd biggest after Tasmania and some place called...

This is the day we have not been looking forward to. We have 6.5hrs of driving to our hotel. We then need to check in and dump countless...

Today our morning started with an early wake up. We left at 7.30 to start our long drive from Geelong to Port Fairy, almost all of which...

This morning we said our goodbyes to Melbourne and headed to Geelong which is a seaside town and the starting point of the Great Ocean...