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Absolutely the best band we’ve seen live Suzie Quattro  live on the same night, we were in the toon on Monday and it’s looking pretty dire  so many shops closed really awful same as Durham city centre shocking at the amount of premises closed down.

Hi Graham we saw Slade live at the Dolcia Vita  nightclub in Newgate Street Newcastle in  Xmas 1972 fantastic  band music amazing and the best one I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY  fab memories 

Hi just wondering what are the possibilities of my June 9th transatlantic cruise going ahead 

Merry Christmas everyone wishing us all a happy healthy  new year and hopefully we will be cruising in 2021 🙏🤗

Absolutely agree with your comment in fact sometimes  I’ve enjoyed Britannia club better than QG because the tables are further apart And the ambiance superb

Hi what about Eva or Shona 

Oh this is our first year  being pensioners will check our bank see if we have the infamous £10 not sure what to spend it on tho😂

Erm what’s the £10 for

Hi Jack really disappointed we have had so many cruises cancelled his year and that was our second cruise cancelled in 2021 our next one is June 2021 but it’s becoming so hard to remain optimistic, but I suppose it’s for the best and maybe we should all wait until everyone gets vaccinated good luck Linda

Hi trying so hard to stay optimistic but having had so many cruises cancelled this year and now more  cancelled in Jan 21 and April 21 next cruise booked June 21 and I’m just not sure anymore struggling to stay positive 

Hi last year we were offered an upgrade for £2,000 extra each to be upgraded from our Q5 suite to a Q2 which we didn’t take because we had another 5 cruises already booked subsequently all were  cancelled and we regret so much that we didn’t take up the offer a lesson we have learned take whatever’s on offer and enjoy every moment

We did around British isles cruise on QV last year and thoroughly enjoyed it would be more than happy to do again

Thanks for info so disappointed just got email from Cunard

Hi I’ve booked QM2 transatlantic for April and June 21 the June one is still showing.

Hi we have transatlantic booked for April 21 and again in June 21 and just noticed that April 21 has disappeared from the website (Cunard) doesn’t look good

Hi has anyone else noticed that March and April 2021 cruises have disappeared from the Cunard UK website ?

Got to be Queen Anne for me too.

Yes but we don’t want to cruise on a battleship

Islay sounds good

No way can the ship be a king has to be a queen or princess  female gender.

we love Q5 aft cabins on QV and QE for us the whole experience of the Queens grills is absolutely amazing have not yet been in grills on QM if your not fussed about the room size or the butler and free booze stick with the P1 either way the experience will be one you want to repeat time and time again enjoy.

Hi thanks for all the advice and tips really enjoyed your post all being well we are hoping to book a world cruise in 2023 which will coincide with our 50th wedding anniversary 👍

Absolutely correct no way would we have booked this cruise had we known it was a literary  festival as mentioned before we found some passengers to be rude and pushy and even one very well known journalist who wouldn’t join the  disembarkation queue  announcing in a very loud voice to a member of staff who  had very politely requested she join the queue  DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM then off the ship she flounced.

11 hours ago, majortom10 said:

Sorry but I was on roundtrip TA from Southampton and returning from New York for the Literature Festival at Sea in 2019 and was the worst TA we have ever done and was glad to disembark in Southampton. Unfortunately it had not been announced as a Literature Festival at Sea crossing when we booked or else we would not have booked. There were many complaints during the cruise because the whole ship was taken over by the Festival and other cruisers were ignored and there was no alternative entertainment during the day for anyone else. The Planetarium was closed for whole week so talks could take place and many talks or programmes were not available unless you had signed up for the Literature Festival. All there was to during the day was sit in Kings Court, bars or Sir Samuels with no thought of those cruising not involved with Festival by Cunard.

Hi majortom I can’t believe we were on that cruise also and we were never told it was a literary cruise and we agree the whole ship was taken over  and like you we wouldn’t have booked if we had known we also found some fellow cruisers to be loud and pushy running around from one venue to another, if I remember right you were booked on the 28 night transatlantic New York  and Canada in Oct 20 same as us 🤗

1 minute ago, Harry Peterson said:

How strange that you should be making that point. Funnily enough I was saying exactly that to my wife yesterday evening after watching something on the BBC news. A highly intelligent, well educated individual - but using the ‘f’ throughout. I was wondering where it originated, having first noticed it in one of my cousins back in the 60s. I put it down to some kind of speech thing at the time, but I imagine it was, in Colchester, an early indication of the beginnings of the ubiquitous spread of Estuary English.

 

Like you, I love to hear regional accents, but this isn’t remotely that.  I suppose we have to accept, though, that speech changes in the same way that language does.

 

 

Hi I always love to hear regional accents too and trying to guess where there from mine is a dead giveaway I’m always referred too as Geordie lass   
even when I think I have my posh voice on 😂