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All the best Julie. We have just returned from 2 cruises in Europe and had a bad case of the cold. We tested twice and were negative, People forget you can get a cold! I hope the media is sensible and don’t carry on like a band of idiots! we have been watching” This Britain”. Thought it was just about Boris but it is Britain through the Covid. Everybody should realise how much stress everybody was under before we got vaccines, Decisions had to be made with no experience of a pandemic. Just reminds you what we have all come through! Enjoy the rest of the Cruise, Julie. Eileen

We must be on the same wave length! We can’t fly international on economy anymore. Spending the kids inheritance. We today fly home from Paris on Thai which was booked before Covid. Have found them very helpful….specially when I drop my hearing aid and they virtually took the seat apart and found it. Old age comes with issues. on MSC…they did not provide tea or coffee after dinner and you had to buy it. That was in our early days cruising. We used to take English breakfast tea bags at breakfast and after dinner ask for a cup of hot water at the bar so we could you use the tea bags. Pretty bad on our part…they were mean but so were we!!

Hi this topic reminded me of our MSC cruise, probably more than 10 years ago from São Paulo to Venice. It cost us more to fly to South America than the cruise. The boat was lovely and we were given a cabin on the 13th level with walk in robes! But seven different languages before and after each show was tiring. The ship took our passports and on the last day the announced we had to line up to collect our passports on the day we docked. People had trains to catch in Italy and were very angry. 2000 odd people lining up when you want to get off the ship does not make for happy passengers! All makes for laughs now! RC now at Diamond status has been lovely! Eileen

Hi just finishing two RC cruises. Wonder and now Odyssey in the Med. I booked our excursions very early and that was a good idea because a lot of them were full by the time we got on the ship. being diamond has been lovely. 4 drinks a day is more than I want and the price of of the package is really high. Our bill is very little because of this and I have actually had my washing done a couple of times as no drinks bill! the Wonder was a lovely ship but Odyssey is better. Brighter and cheerier than Wonder. met a couple of CC on this cruise. Ausmann and Aussiecruiser. eileen