This morning we were due to drop anchor at 8.00am off the island of Heimaey, the largest and only inhabited island in the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) archipelago, located about five miles off Iceland’s south coast. It was a new port of call for us, so we looked forward to exploring. We had to be up…
TREVOR’S BIRTHDAY We were awake nice and early this morning because of the extra hour in bed. Trevor opened his birthday cards and stood them up on the table, then we went up to The View for our breakfast. We had another pleasant sea day today, so we looked on the programme to see what…
Woke up this morning later than usual, around 8.30am. Looking out of our window, we could see grey clouds and grey ocean, and the movement of the Bolette was much more discernible. We got washed and dressed and headed up to The View self-service buffet for breakfast, but it seemed as if everyone had decided…
Today we woke up feeling a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because we were setting off on another cruise, and trepidation because we were sailing out of Liverpool and had booked to go there by train. In itself, we would normally view the train journey as part of the holiday, but yesterday there had…
Woke up at six o’clock to a tremendous din coming from the street outside. Shouting and banging on drums. What?! It’s 6.00am for goodness sake. A woman with a particularly shrill voice was bellowing into a megaphone, so I got out of bed and looked out of the window, to see where the noise was…
Take a lift to the top of the Empire State,Take a drive across the Golden Gate,March, march, march across Red Square,Do all the things you’d ever dare. ‘The Things That Dreams Are Made Of’ – The Human League Visiting San Francisco to go over the Golden Gate Bridge was, for me, one of the major…
Let’s go to San FranciscoWhere the flowers growSo very high.Sunshine in San FranciscoMakes your mind grow up to the sky. The Flower Pot Men, 1967 What a great day we had today. So much to see and do. It was another early start this morning, as we left El Capitan hotel and Merced and set…
We were up and dressed in good time this morning, and enjoyed some coffee and a breakfast bar in our room. Then, at 7.45am, we hefted our rucksacks and cases (yes! our cases!) down in the lift to the hotel foyer, and waited for a few minutes while Frank brought the coach round to the…
Do you remember the good old daysBefore the ghost town?We danced and sang and the music playedIn the boomtown. ‘Ghost Town’ – The Specials Got up at 7.30am and got washed and dressed before we went downstairs to Chick-fil-A for our breakfast once again. While we were there, we saw our driver Frank come in…
It was around 8.00am when we got up this morning feeling quite optimistic. During the night we had received another confirmation from Fed-Ex, that our suitcases would be delivered to the Golden Nugget “before 10.30am”. We hoped that they would be, as we couldn’t wait to don our swimming things and spend a leisurely day…
