Eddie99

Have you thought of train travel to a destination where you can self cater?

The Man in Seat 61 is a great resource

https://www.seat61.com/

So many ideas!

There’ll be instructions on a card in the cabin but, iirc, it’s deck followed by cabin number

So

If your friends are on Deck 11, cabin 342, you dial 11342 from your cabin or from any of the public phones around the ship.

No charge

Morning all.  We have mist this morning, just to add to the wonders of *Weather 2024*.  It’s certainly not been the greatest year, so far, and seeing as it’s nearly half gone (can you believe it? 😳) it had better buck its ideas up.

To the cricket field/fish van for our morning walk. This afternoon the town walking festival continues with us joining a guided walk of the Roman. aqueduct. - Pah! What have the Romans ever done for us?

Sun & warm forecast - we’ll see 

Enjoy your day everyone.  Bon voyage to anyone about to start a holiday 

Morning all.

It’s dry and mild, if not exactly roasting, but the nagging wind has dropped so we’re going to use our bus passes and spend a few hours at the coast

The fish man at the market had local grey mullet yesterday.  Smashing, with English asparagus and Jersey royals.  A drop of olive oil/lemon dressing worked with all.

Enjoy your day

Bon Voyage @Purdey16

I hope the flights go smoothly; I’m sure the cruise will be super

Look forward to hearing about it

Here’s the bear we saw in Alaska - as close as if you were looking out of your bedroom window!

Have fun!

Dull sort of day here, but dry, so I guess we’ll have to be content with that

Mushroom stroganoff for us today too.  I haven’t made it yet though.  I’m being lazy - feet up watching IPL cricket for a little while.  Completed my 10,000 steps (and quite a few more) this morning, so I’m allowed

Megabear - my condolences for your aunty.  I hope, at nearly 100, she had a gentle passage to whatever might come next.  Raise a glass of something wonderful to her at the time her funeral takes place.

For anyone who missed the show on Friday night

🤞 for Freddie and the prescription diet

The wind (breeze) has changed direction, so a little solar therapy is on the cards.  Bet it changes again just as soon as I’ve put on some factor 30 and adjusted my chair

Poor Freddie

Have you tried a daily spoonful of Yakult?  Help build up his natural “friendly” gut bacteria.  Don’t think it could hurt, unless he is lactose intolerant.  There are soya or oat yoghurt or kefir alternatives if he is.

Pumpkin is reputed to be really good for gut issues, whichever end of the hard/soft spectrum is the problem

Anyway - hope he gets better very soon and both of you can cope with the exclusion diet

The weather is less “scorchio” today, with high cloud and a little niggly sea breeze that’s coming from somewhere cooler than here.  We’ve done our daily big walk and called in at a shoreside cafe for a lovely wholesome brunch (Sausage bap/fried eggs bap are wholesome, aren’t they?)

My sleep tracker records me as falling asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow at 9.15, and being in deep sleep for 1hr 18 minutes then, and sleeping for over 8 hours in total.  That’s a treat.  I don’t know if I’d be able to cope with walking 6 miles in 22°C every day though!

You can see from the above timings that I didn’t watch Eurovision.  I’ve never really liked it, not even in the Cliff/Sandie Shaw era.  There was a time I liked to dip in to hear Terry Wogan, but not the acts

It’s half gone now, but enjoy the rest of the day everyone.

Lovely day

The history of water meadows is fascinating.  I recommend Google searches to learn more.  I certainly didn’t know very much, even though I thought I did 🙄

Good supper too.  Liver & bacon with mash, peas & onion gravy.  Not everyone’s cup of tea but it certainly hit the spot for me.

Now the decision - stay up & look for the lights, or not?  Someone on the walk suggested setting an alarm for 1am.  Mmm 🤔

Morning all.  The sun has got his hat on, and I Wordled in 2.  Very good start to the day!

We didn’t stay up to look for the northern lights - I’ve read Day of the Triffids 🌱 - but I’ve enjoyed looking at the hundreds of pictures this morning

It’s Walking Week here, with lots of various events.  We’re going on a guided walk of the water meadows this afternoon, followed by pub supper

Have a lovely day everyone, especially those who’ve been poorly, or have poorly rellies 

Avian solidarity! 🦅 💪 

I’ve seen that boarding Princess in San Francisco 

Many passengers called to *The Table of Shame* in the embarkation hall 🙄

I’ve just read a piece on cryptosporidium infection in the uk.  Apparently numbers are going through the roof at the moment

I’d be guilty of breaking the “No politics” rule if I proferred my explanation of the reason .  It doesn’t take a genius

So - extra, extra, hand washing and vigilance 

(I wonder if this is behind the ships’ outbreaks?)

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cryptosporidium-public-advice

Looks like another lovely day coming up

@P&O SUE, so sorry you’ve been poorly.  I hope you wake up feeling a bit better today, and manage to shake it off completely very soon.  Look after yourself

We’ve finally found some “free” time, so once himself has finished at the museum this morning, and once the car is back from its expensive visit to the garage, we’ll head off to the caravan, for that lovely sun & sea mixture

Sarah - I hope your Mum starts to improve very quickly and that she has a smooth road to recovery from this point x

Good morning

The sun has arrived, at last!

Lovely walk on the beach & fish lunch yesterday

Group walk with the Wednesday group today

Everything feels so much better with a bit of sunshine!

On the minus side, the car is playing up (battery/electrics) so himself will have to miss the walk and get that sorted.  Boo

Rather like us

Seaview cabin on deck 4.  The only times we ventured above 8 were to go to Beach House and Epicurean.

It was January though.  Maybe we would have explored the pool decks in hotter weather

We though 6, 7, and 8 had lots to offer

Thank you for the review - I enjoyed reading it and I’m glad your group had a great time

@AndyMichelle - we were apprehensive about Iona but loved our time on her.  So many facilities!  Somehow she does a Tardis and is huge, yet accessible at the same time.  Embarkation, disembarkation, and getting off & back again in ports was smooth.  My only gripe concerning her size and payload is that she can easily “fill up” some of the smaller ports

Lovely!

Glad you’re posting

Have a lovely cruise on the lovely Ventura.  Hopefully you’ve chilled out from the journey to Southampton and are enjoying good weather

It’s a dull day here, with added spells of mizzle.  Such a shame after a rare sunny day yesterday.  It was nice for the balloon festival, but a shame (afaiac) that they had to conclude with a window-shaking firework extravaganza at 10.15 last night.  I expect I’m just a miserable old fart 🙄

My best bit of today was coming across a little field vole on our walk today.  He was very bold (or perhaps unconcerned?).  Crossed the path in front of me and then sat chomping on a seed case from a tree, as OH, I and the dog walked past

Not my pic, but this is what he looked like