Blogs from Atlantic, Oceans and Seas - page 67

Geo: 47.1411, 9.52148Une visite éclair a Vaduz au Liechtenstein... read more

I didn’t hear the fog horns last night. We must have traveled out of the fog or I was sleeping well. The ship is really rocky this morning. I get up and look out and the fog is gone, the ocean is relatively calm, we are moving pretty quickly. That must be the cause of the rockiness. The speed is causing breaking waves against the ship and it sounds like we are on the beach listening to the crashing waves. I love it. It is a beautiful day and we are drinking our coffee on our balcony. Ken is in shorts and t-shirt. I am in my pjs. Today is our last day; we arrive in NYC tomorrow. I could sit on this balcony watching the ocean for another month. Went upstairs and had breakfast with ... read more

Today is a day at sea, so we sleep in. Once we are up (about 8 am) we head for lattes and breakfast on the back deck. We then take showers and head up on the deck by the pool and read for a while. We take a walk around the ship. It’s still sunny and relatively warm…about 75…much hotter than I expected!!! We head back to the room and take a nap. Just as I am about to fall asleep, the cruise director comes on the overhead with an announcement! I fall back asleep and then I am awoken by another overhead announcement! Just as I fall back asleep we hear a knock at the door, which we ignore. We finally fall asleep again and wake up around 4 pm…watch a little TV and then ... read more

Geo: 21.8615, -114.609Hubby & I woke-up early today. We have been good at taking naps but not good at sleeping-in since ship time is west coast time i.e. two hours ahead of our normal time. This morning we decided to go out on the quiet deck and have a croissant. It was barely daylight outside, cool, and wonderful. Hubby went to the balcony to read and I grabbed my laptop and updated this blog. The Internet was non-existent on the ship so I couldn't update it in real time but I did keep my Word document. We finally both got semi-bored so we walked around the ship until we found the 12:00 wine pairing class. For $17.50 per person you get to taste different wines with different foods and learn some new "wine things" and frankly, ... read more

Saturday 14th August A very warm send-off this afternoon. Awash with gifts and generous farewells we boarded RMS St Helena and left the island with very mixed feelings. Of course, I am looking forward to being back home and have missed Di and family very much. However, the visit has been a real adventure and most probably a trip of a lifetime. Professionally the visit has been an enormous success and I am very pleased with the quality of the work carried out – as I informed the Governor yesterday. We had a most interesting meeting. First and foremost you call him ‘Governor’ but without the intonation used by Dennis Waterman when addressing his superior (John Thaw) in the ‘Sweeney’. He was visibly shocked by the content of our report and he has apparently (as we ... read more