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Many thanks. Let's see if I can eliminate the childrens signatures which are a mile long :(:(:(
Mike
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Somone said you can kill signatures. Perhaps someone can tell me where.
Many thanks
Mike
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............. but I love Marmite
Mike
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Not my cup of tea a holiday camp type holiday. .
Mike
World Cruise?
in World Cruising
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it's a long time since I wrote my tips for a world cruise, so here they are again. We are doing Aurora 2022 again.
Doing a Worldie for the first time? I hope you find this helpful
World Cruise
And for the men, Dinner Suit, Blazer and Flannels, mainly Black Bow ties, but one white and I had a Red one as well! Dress Shirts, I took 3 or 4 white and I know one still has the labels on! And a couple of Black Dress Shirts, My choice but not strictly essential.
Take with you your lap top and make sure it is Wifi fitted and a CD writer fitted to download your digi camera pictures. Make sure that all your family are aware of where you are by printing out the timetable from the brochure and making sure that they have your email address. My children had the Aurora web cam on their desktops as the wallpaper so followed us. When we came out of The Azores, Aurora came out stern first, had to turn to port, then starboard, then went ahead. We received a text from one of our daughters as we got under way, “That was a nifty bit of reversing”, she had watched, as did the others, as we actually did it!!
Take a small diary with you and make notes on each day. A small pocket one with a week to a page will do AND a larger one, a day to a page and then at your leisure you can expand on your notes in the small diary into the page for a day diary. A year later and Joan is still referring to and making that one up! By the way, don’t feel awkward and writing a journal as you go along, lots of people do, sitting out in the sun.
The House. We have WONDERFUL neighbours who kept an eye on the place. I left them with a complete set of keys and they cleared the post every day and stacked it on the kitchen table in date order and kept bedroom windows open on suitable days. The place looked lived in! Another thing we did, was study which lights we had on on a regular basis and fitted a time to a socket in that room and timed a Table or Standard Lamp to come on and off as required. Some curtains are always open in any case, others were left open a little way.
Neighbours across the road and in the road behind us, our land goes through to the road at the back, also knew we were away and kept an eye open as well. We came home to a perfect house complete with a bottle of milk in the fridge and a big bouquet of flowers in a bowl of water in the sink.
The car. To leave it locked and alarmed in the garage for three months "might" have run the battery down and with no battery, I wouldn't get in. So one of my daughters took it, parked it with their FOUR cars and used it from time to time.
Fridge and Freezer. Fridge run down of perishable stuff but left running. Freezer stocked for the children's benefit with the advice/offer/warning, "Help yourself but there is no fresh milk or bread" (There was frozen bread in the freezer) Cupboards stocked with dry and tinned goods.
By the way we did the same thing in November and December when we were away again on Aurora. (Did 4 months on her that year!!!!)
We kept the same table of 8. 2 were with us all the way but the others changed from time to time. The advantage of a table of 8 is that if there are a couple who are a real pain, and we had a couple for a short while, then the rest can ignore them!!
Question about settling the On Board Credit Account
With regards to the settling of the account, yes at the end of each sector. Usual thing, intrim statement a few days before the end of the sector for you to check out.
R
um Rat