Tuesday 25 – Thursday 27 November 2025 – At Sea: Sylvia We have had three sea days in row. Lots of the same sorts of activities. Lots of different exercise classes and walking around the deck for me. The sea has been mostly fairly calm although the wind has come up a bit, which makes […]
First of all, thank you for all your comments. It is always lovely to hear from you. Friday 21 November 2025 – Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana: Sylvia We arrived in the twin cities of Sekondi-Takoradi, the capital of the Western Region of Ghana, at about 9am this morning. Several brightly coloured fishing boats were returning to shore […]
Sunday 16 November 2025 – Dakar, Senegal: Roger It was just after 0600 when we felt the bow thrusters spark up, turning the boat around and sidling us into the Dakar wharf. Senegal was formerly a French colony until 1960 when it became independent. Prior to the French it was owned at various times by […]
Tuesday 11 November 2025 – Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Roger It was about 7am when the ship did a 180 degree turn and sidled into the berth at Santa Cruz. I watched from our balcony as the crew threw thin lines to those onshore, to which the heavy ropes were then attached and pulled ashore, […]
Tuesday 4 November 2025 – On the way: Roger It was late afternoon when we boarded the Singapore airlines flight from Auckland to Singapore. As usual on Singapore Airlines the service was great and the food not too bad either. A few hours into the flight I put the bed down to endeavour to get […]
Thursday 18 September 2025: Bucharest to Sibiu – Sylvia Our guide and driver for the next few days, Florin, met us at the JW Marriott Grand at 9am. It was nice to have a relaxing morning and we had enjoyed a lovely breakfast in the hotel. We set off for Transylvania. Romania is a country […]
Monday 15 September 2025: Vidin and Belogradchik Rocks – Roger We woke in the morning to find ourselves moored up alongside the town of Vidin in Bulgaria. Bulgaria has a population about 6.5 million, of which around 30,000 live in this town. It was around nine when we boarded the buses and drove through the […]
Thursday 11 September 2025: Kalocsa – Roger It was 8:30 in the morning when we disembarked and boarded buses for a short trip to Kalocsa. The river in this area is 4 to 500 metres wide, 6 metres deep and flowing at a rate of about 2500 cubic metres per second. As we headed along […]
Sunday 7 September 2025: Vienna – Roger When we woke up we had berthed on the Danube, just adjacent to Vienna. It was just before nine when Sylvia and I set off for a stroll into town. The area we walked through was a relatively new residential area with very tidy looking apartments with lots […]
Wednesday 3 September 2005: Nuremberg – Roger After a light breakfast, it was just after 8am when we jumped into a taxi to take us to the Nuremberg Castle. Arriving there before it opened at 9am, there were few people around and we spent the time looking around the outside of the buildings and the […]