exlondoner

I assume there is nothing to stop Cunard charging you the appropriate fare if you disembark early.

It struck me after I went to bed that I may be talking gibberish, because I was assuming you are travelling on Thursday. If not I apologise. If so, I’ll see you in the queue. 🙂🙂 https://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/Live_Information/Shipping_Movements_and_Cruise_Ship_Schedule/Cruise_Ship_Schedule/

According to Soton VTS, she is expected at 6.15, leaving 4.30, though I don’t think Cunard ships ever leave on time.

There is some hope. When I was aboard in July, the pool had been repaired, the decks were being seen too, and painting and varnishing were going on all over the place. All easy to do on a Med. cruise in warm weather, not so much in mid-Atlantic.

One thing always worth doing is to check what time the ship actually arrives. If she comes in late, then there is not going to be much point getting there at 12.

I have just looked at our boarding passes, which I printed out a while ago. As well us telling us to turn up at 12.30, they each say ‘priority embarkation’.

The Mayflower Terminal has a small café.

Have you spoken to them about this?

Posts enquiring about dress tend to come in two forms: 1. Will it be all right if…(like the OP here)? To which the answer is almost always that it will be fine, but you might have more fun in a suit - and that’s not a clause one often comes across. 2. Can I get away with…? To which the answer is usually probably not. The first is usually from people who want to do the right thing and not offend anybody, the second, often, from people who don’t care.

And of course there is the mystery of security. This is strangely weather dependent, because people have so many more layers to remove when it is colder. There is also the depressing number of men (I’m afraid it is always men, in my experience) who have to be told yet again that they can’t leave their change in their trouser or shorts pockets. Anyway this all makes security times a bit unpredictable.

I think boarding time is in the lap of the ship preparation gods. Obviously it depends how many people have to get off, whether the previous cruise was full, and if they are all leaving.

Same here, and I hope it works this time.

I sure the coffee is most welcome.

Ah I remember a conversation in one of Robert B. Parker’s Spencer books which went something like: ’What’s for breakfast?’ ‘Scrapple.’ ’Is it as unpleasant as it sounds?’ ’Yes.’

If only because of the weather. Only the battle hardened would wear shorts for breakfast in the windy mid-Atlantic, whereas in the Med. it is quite different.

Why don’t I have friends like that?

Youth is an excuse for many things. 🙂

And I don’t think dumb is the correct antonym for smart in this context. Surely it should be scruffy or perhaps worn?

How could you possibly know the motivation of a Roman wearing his smartest toga? But it’s an interesting subject for a D.Phil.

Of course they can be frozen. Our Waitrose usually has them in packets of six in the frozen cabinet. The fresh ones you can get where they have fresh meat counters are slightly nicer.

I think so. And the picture looks much like appears in QG on Cunard, except it’s a bigger peace of toast.

It may all be down to your friend that they have appeared on the actual QG menu, because they didn’t for a long time. Just in case, if you are in touch, please pass on my profound thanks.

On Cunard, I mean. 🙂 When I have them at home, I usually don them for dinner with mushrooms and sherry.

Take the sleeper, which goes on its own ferry.

I can’t think of a ship that had more beautiful lines than Windsor Castle.