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Ukulele girl

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    East Hampshire
  • Interests
    Gardening, sewing, reading.
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Cunard
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Enjoyed The Malaccan Straits

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  1. Thank you so much for all your hard work, it has been a pleasure each morning to read about your trip. My sister was on the cruise and I will speak to her tomorrow to see if she feels the same about the holiday. It will be interesting to have a comparison. You might like to think about making a photobook with your pictures and include your blog as pages. I made one for our 6 week NZ and Australia holiday and included our itinerary notes and emails to a group of friend. I still look at it at often with a smile and enjoy being reminded of the details. I hope you are soon very well again and look forward to your next trip.
  2. Thank you for even managing to make doing the washing sound interesting! Hope Costa Rica is good for you both.
  3. Thank you for passing on your excitement during the transit in this posting. Another great start to my day enjoying your report. I have just been sharing the pictures with my 7 year old granddaughter who was very interested and will show her where it is on the world map we have on the landing. Your efforts are so appreciated by us all.
  4. Thank you for making my morning routine so enjoyable. I sit with my large coffee and your musings to start the day and am loving it. Perhaps you could continue when you get home! As I have said before my sister and husband are aboard with you all. They are part of the table tennis crowd so I have asked about the door decoration and will report back when I hear from her later today. As a retired secondary school teacher and veteran of sore throats and winter coughs I appreciate your frustration at the ongoing problem you have. The doctor always recommended gargling with soluble aspirin, unpleasant but helpful. For the cough, breathing steam helps to lubricate the cilia which will help with the tickle. Coughing knocks the droplets of moisture off the cilia and then it's a vicious circle. I do hope you are better soon. Wet, windy and cold here and I am coughing non stop so off to breath steam! 'Cilia, tiny muscular, hair-like projections on the cells that line the airway, are one of the respiratory system's defence mechanisms.
  5. 'Apparently it's really common among younger people too (I'm talking Gens Y and Z) - because, it seems, it helps them to multitask: "Among the many replies DG received were lots of teenagers and people in their early 20s who said they liked using subtitles because it allowed them to multitask." Multitask? How?' I was on a plane yesterday and the young girl was watching a film on her iPad with subtitles on, earphones on so the subtitles were also talking into them. She was also using her phone to play a game. Multitasking it appeared!
  6. Thank you for such wonderful pictures and your ongoing delightful commentary on the trip. The last time I saw Art Deco buildings like these were in Napier, New Zealand, such a treat. Napier was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1931 so the buildings are in good condition and well planned. Great to see the menus although I think pescatarian/vegetarians have more choice than the carnivores. Looking forward to your next instalment.
  7. Thank you Selbourne for your very enjoyable commentary on the cruise. I followed your last newsy ramblings for the same reason as this as my sister and her husband are also on board. They are on a lower deck in a balcony cabin and have said that they are not as aware of the movement in bad weather. It is so good to hear the details of trip as my sister doesn't usually use the wifi on board. Is there still a table near the library where people leave books they have finished with? It is often a way to share reading material on a longer cruise. Best of luck with the weather into Bermuda.
  8. The deck manager offered them. I don’t think they would have made a big enough difference in all honesty. The noises you are experiencing would wreck my sleep on a cruise. I think I will be tempted to bring the white noise machine with me that I use with my granddaughter. That at least would help to cover and remove the worst of the noises. Perhaps this is a thought for people who find it a problem. Our machine is very small and has a variety of choices for sounds. Bought from a well known on line company.
  9. I was thinking about your comment about children on board skipping school. There are several counties in the country who give two weeks at half term in the Autumn term, probably because it is a long term. These families are obviously taking advantage of the longer holiday.
  10. Thank you Selbourne for your blog of the cruise. My sister and her husband are on board and I only hope she was well equipped with Stugeron and wrist bands as she doesn't travel well. They play table tennis each day and I expect that has been closed to them because of the pitching. We once travelled back from St Petersburg on Azura with a very tricky port/starboard list due to the weather. It lasted almost a day and it was like walking up/downhill. It made eating and service in the cafeteria interesting. We were glad it had settled by bed time! I hope for all of you on board that tomorrow will signal a return to normal weather. I look forward to enjoying the rest of your posts.
  11. Sleepingcat - thank you for this, I will seek out your postings on the port boards. I have been doing further research and can fly from London to Christchurch with only a short stop in Singapore with Singapore Airlines. Flying business will make it comfortable and it only takes 25 hours in total. We have had a motorhome in this country for many years so prefer other holidays to be more of a treat and I enjoy hunting out interesting hotels and B&Bs. Although it is a long time off just the thought of it has lifted my spirits and I have started to plan the route. I hope you can get to do the other half of the world cruise some day.
  12. David63, thank you, that's very helpful. I knew the opening for booking was around those times prior to the travel date but I hadn't looked at Emirates. We had thought to stop somewhere on the way but if we travel business the need won't be there. I will look at Emirates following your advice.
  13. Thanks you for your comment. Sadly we only have 4,500 points with Air Canada so using air-miles isn't an option. I realise the one way tickets will be pricey but we will try to pick the best time to travel and book as early as possible. We will get a little towards the flights from the package for a half world cruise. I did some looking for January 24 (we will actually be travelling January 25 but flights are not available yet for then) and it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Any advice on how to mitigate the costs would be very welcome. We plan to travel business this time as I am better if I can lie flat and will be flying London to Christchurch. Always helpful to have input from others.
  14. We have been to NZ before and would spend the first week in the South Island then cross to the North Island where we have friends. We expect to spend a week with our friends at their 'batch' on Lake Taupo and the rest of the time on places we didn't get to see last visit. Fine tuning the times/days etc takes lots of planning but 3 weeks is a rough guess. We would spend 2 nights in Bangkok where we have people to visit too. It probably would be our last very long trip and the second half of the World cruise takes in lots of places we would like to visit and would be a good way to come home slowly.
  15. Thank you all for your responses - very helpful so far. I hadn't thought about a cost, very naive of me! We will be touring NZ by car and moving on every other day plus managing our own cases from airport etc so I don't want the hassle of an extra case with us. We like to travel light when touring but there will be a whole set of clothes and other items only necessary for the cruise part of the holiday. The flight is more of an unknown but interesting to see if we can use that cost towards our flights out. Probably travelling via Bangkok then to Christchurch, NZ so we can do the bottom end of the South Island.
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