Ozwoody

You over packer you.😄 I only take three pair, my trusty walkers, boat shoes for around the ship, and a formal pair.

That is a beautiful spot, we dined there twice in 2019, when we stayed in Capetown for a week prior to catching the QE back to Australia. Great menu selection too, was hard to chose which to have.

Oh it was, with out doubt one of the best cruises we have done. Thoroughly recommend if you can do a WC.

Oh so true, especially for a world cruise. What follows will probably put some of you in incredulous horror.😵 For our last WC in 2018, once we finished packing we had 6 check in bags..... Don't get to excited yet. We also had two carry-ons each as well. But when your away over three months, there is a lot of other stuff, yes there was extra clothes as most of the cruise was in warm regions, but there was a reasonable trip through the artic circle, requiring warm heavy clothes. And then there was Hil's art gear, brushes, paints, canvases, etc. Plus heaps of, health stuff for three months, electronic stuff like charges for shavers, phones, tablets, tooth brushes, hearing aids, trimers, etc. And I won't go into shoes, women will know what I mean. When I seen the line up, my eyebrows were just as high as some of you are now.🤣 By the way, never used any of the cold weather clothes, it was warm barmy weather all through Iceland, Greenland, and northern Canada.😄 Oh there was a few bottles of wine went with us as well. Thank Goodness It Was A Home Port 15min from Home.

In one of our bags lives a collapsible bag, about the same size and shape of a medium size suit case. takes up minimum space and weighs about 200 grams. Inevitably coming home we find we have more than we started with. No idea where it comes from, don't need anything, don't plan to buy anything! But some how that jolly collapsing case comes in handy....🙄

We've never found it a problem, but then our flights are fairly simple ones. Get taxi to air port, take bags direct to drop off, take flight, grab bags, take to car hire, stow bags in car. Usually stay multiple day at each stop. Come home via cruise ship. Voilà done!🤗

When we go on a cruise, I go on a holiday, I'm not planning on mucking around doing domestics.😁 On cruises less than 14 nights I take underwear/socks for each night, & clothes for half the cruise. Cruises over 14 nights its 14 changes of underwear/socks, 7 days clothes. World Cruise 21 days undies and clothes for 14, if we were not elite, probably add a bit extra. OK, I'm probably an over-packer, but Unashamedly so.😜

Your right, my old brain is loosing it.🤣

My Dad always said, "there is statistics, and statistics, and damned lies".

Which cruise line? Normally cruises within Australian waters for permanent residents, you only need your drivers licence.

Yes your right, I'm being greedy,🤦‍♂️ But would still like a Princess (or similar cruise line) Fiji from Brisy. Just not keen on P&O, to party ship for this oldie.😉

I can see what you say, but if we have all of them doing the same thing, isn't that reducing their customer base if all the offerings are the same boring repeats??? If they had more options then people would not be going overseas to get more variation in cruising.🤷‍♂️

Exactly

I know I keep saying this,,,,, BUT why is there 3 princess cruises out of Sydney to Fiji in 2025, yet not even 1 from Brisbane????? I know there is 1 Fiji cruise out of Brisbane by P&O, but what is Princess thinking that Brisbane only wants the same old ports, be great to have at least one more option than the same old same old.🤬

Your no doubt on a fairly comprehensive physio regime. Follow it all the way, do everything they say to do, you don't want to have those tendons seizing up, giving you a permanent limp. When I had my knees replaced, I have been very glad it was stressed how important it was.

😲 ooh bugger that looks very unpleasant, really feel for you.

If I had better contacts with the gentleman up stairs, I'd put a request into him, to send it over.😁

Have you been spying on my garden? 😂

In 2019 we came back from a cruise where Perth was our first port of call in Australia, as we came through customs for a day visit, one of those dogs got interested in Hilary, the customs guy ask her if she had any food or plants, she said no, but they actually took her carry bag and searched it, low and behold down in a bottom corner was a semi dried flower that had been put behind her ear at an island stop on the way. she must have taken it and put it in her carry bag during the island visit and forgot it. The customs guy what to her embarrassment was very strict and advised her that he was recording the incident and if she was found to have failed to declare in future she would be fined. The fact that she hadn't realise it was there was no excuse as far as he was concerned. I still tease her about being carful when we're coming through customs.

At least the NSW school holidays don't start for another week & a bit, hopefully for them the rain has run its coarse and they have fair weather then. Quite frankly I'm sick of this constant rain, just as my veggie garden starts to revive, we get another down pore flooding the ground, and killing the roots.🤬

Interesting. is that to stop things being taken in, or stop West Australians escaping?

Being sub tropical, qld seems to attract all sorts of pests, fruit flies, cane toads, root knot nematodes, flying foxes; bipoded denisons from south of the qld border. I must admit at lease the last ones don't attack my garden, so their sort of accepted up here.😏

There was a funny story told to me by a border guard on that border stop, it seemed a big American car was stopped a few months earlier with three guys in it, who were acting quite suspicious, not very co-operative at all. Very reluctant to allow the boot to be opened, a guard insisted on having the boot opened, the drive finally released the boot lid, and the office lifted the lid, as he lifted it up there was a forth guy in it, who popped up and yelled "I'm a fruit fly", the guard got such a fright he jumped back slamming the lid down as he did. The guy in the boot had to be taken to the local hospital for concussion. Moral of the story, Don't Mess with the border guards.🤣

All true, except by car, at least on the east coast, and SA. No border check points now, there was when I was a young fella, but a half century later, and everything is changed. Not sure about WA; Tas; and NT, but can't imagine they would have road border check points these days. ps: yes I know there is a little water between Tas and Vic, but you can still drive via the ferry😁

Yes & No & Both😁 The photo was an example of what I do. Going both ways regards Norfolk island is an internal thing no passport require for Australians. But going and coming back there is a customs quarantine requirement. However if your an international traveller its still not a customs thing, the customs part of the check is to see if your bring prohibited things and/or excess in duty free allowances, during your customs check they also check for quarantine items if any found they have quarantine personnel on hand to check out suspect items. So either way its a quarantine thing.