Homeward bound (boo!)

Well, it's almost over again for another year. In less than 7 hours we will be back in Southampton and back to reality. Neither of us can believe how quickly the last 2 weeks have gone, so with the help of a last ginger beer (and Tom Jones), here are our lasting memories of our voyage to the Med.

Favourite port: Ajaccio (Andrew, because it was such a surprise port) and Monaco (Victoria, because it was Monaco).
Least favourite port: Gibralter. This is unanimous.
Single favourite bit: waking up every morning to a sea view and walking round deck even in the wind and spray and seeing whales and dolphins.
Least favourite bit: being permanently told we're too young for cruising by rude old people that should know better.
Funniest moment: Andrew being called a geek in front of the whole ship!!!
Roughest sea: Force 8/9 in Atlantic off Portuguese coast on the way home, but not as bad as the sea on the Baltic cruise last year so we've been lucky.
Best meal: the Italian lunch in Rome since it was the same restaurant and meal we ate on our honeymoon. Aaah.
Books read: Wicked by (Victoria) The Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp (Victoria) and Arabian Nights (Andrew).
Best thing on ship: plenty of places to sleep and read, lunchtime rollmops, ginger beer, sky deck sun loungers (!) and afternoon hot chocolate in the Piano bar.

A special mention should go to our table mates: David and Jeanette the butchers-come-property magnates from Poulton-le-Fylde, Jim and Wendy from Farnborough and Pam and Kath the wild Welsh women from Caerphilly. They were all fabulous company and it was a pleasure to dine with them, go to the show or watch the football.









Lloyd and Ariston our waiters, of course, looked after us very well!

It's just unfortunate that N Italy, S France and Corsica (and E Austria!) have since been hit by freak rain, flashfloods and landslides. Jeez-we're not even home yet. Disaster was quick this time.

17 months and 3 days until we set sail for our next cruise to the Canary Islands! We've bought a P&O piggybank to start saving our spending money. Since we still want to do Norway/Iceland cruise and now also want to do the Eastern Med cruises we might need more than 1 pig!

So, very shortly it'll be off to bed and when we wake up we'll be back in Southampton. Just like last year, this cruise has been so much fun and gone far too quickly.

Au revoir, adios, & arrivederci!


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Location:The English Channel