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Trust me, it tasted far worse than it looks! I ordered it in the MDR for lunch on my Grand Princess New Zealand cruise last month. One small bite was more than enough. Yuk! I had to have a scoop of icecream to recover my tastebuds.

No driving or riding on public transport on the Sabbath either therefore walking to Shule is the thing. If it's raining, too bad. No opening up of umbrellas allowed. That is deemed as building a tent which is work and therefore forbidden.

Just received email concerning my upcoming November cruise on the Grand Princess ... "You love travel, and we love making it simple to fulfill those dreams. So we're happy to report that effective immediately, the requirements to join a cruise from Australia will now align with all other cruises globally without vaccination or pre-cruise testing requirements. This protocol shift applies to itineraries to all destinations sailing to or from an Australian port. We can't wait to create new memories with you on your upcoming voyage!"

I've done a few repo cruises, both cruising first flying home and flying first and cruising home. Personally I prefer to cruise first then spend a few days before flying home. For me it helps to ease the disembarkation 'blues' if I have a few days ahead to explore another country. I'm not a shopper so airline weight restrictions aren't a problem.

Thanks for the update Carol. Hopefully you can start to breathe again. I think we have all been hanging out for some good news on Norris. Hang in there Norris mate and keep the jokes a'comin. Those angels who work in hospitals need lots of cheering up IMO. They have so much to cope with. Good to hear you can still laugh at what life throws at you!

Carol, thank you for letting us know ... sending get well soon vibes through cyberspace to Norris.

Norris, here's a pic of "that couple" taken on the Sun Princess in 2013.

G'day Norris. Earlier today I heard a call from that tiny voice in my intestines urging me to get myself over to the Celebrity board today because it might be possible that a new chapter in the Gentlemen's Seafaring Journal just might be available. And yep, it was! Never ignore your intestinal little voice cruisers! Thank you Norris mate. Enjoying it so far and I look forward to the continuing saga.

Great! I look forward to it. Ooops, silly me, typo! QM11 voyage. 🥴

Roy, will you be blogging on your upcoming QE11 voyage? I enjoy your blogs very much.

I take it the bovine sitting down is a bull? It has B.D.A. IMO.

Gotta say it Bob and Jackie ... your pins aren't up to scratch. Have you tried waxing?

🥂 🥴 There are other exclusions to "that" rule but I'm too old to remember them. 😂

I was taught that when the sound is "eeee" it's I before E except after C. Except for names, eg Keith, Deidre, etc.

You're welcome anjo.

This might help to explain the Casino Cabins. I believe this couple are currently on the round Oz cruise.

I find that most of these cruise vlogers are just talking heads ... "it's ALL ABOUT ME!!!!!" sort of stuff. I just take a brief look and then ... kaput / delete. They really don't give you useful information. Best of luck with your procedure with the plastic surgeon Lyle. Here in Oz we are very aware of this sort of thing. I wish you well and have fingers crossed for you.

G'day Norris mate. Thank you for another very entertaining entry into your Gentleman's Seafaring Journal. I thoroughly enjoyed it. As for your brain-fog ... yep can relate to that as DH and I both contracted the dreaded virus after our October/November '22 cruise. Fortunately now in January we're both back to normal ... or as "normal" as we will ever get but it took time for us 2 old fogies to get over it completely. Hope you and Carol both fully recover completely very soon.

LOL very strange. Glad you've been able to load the app on your other phone.

OP perhaps the model of your smartphone is too old to support the App? It happened to me with my "hand-me-down" iPhone 6. Solved when I bought a refurbished 2nd hand iPhone 11 at a very "nice" price. Ka-ching, all good to go. Just saying?

We were on the round Australia cruise in Oct/Nov and our wine in the buffet was brought in wine glasses. Definitely not plastic ones.

So sorry to hear of your health issues Uncle Les. Thinking of you and sending you strength, resilience and most of all, a very big sense of humour. From previous experience ... if you can laugh at "it" it won't seem so frightening or challenging. Good luck.

Organised electronically. 3rd dose of antivirals last night and woke up feeling "normal". Sheesh, I don't know what's in those things but they sure seem to be doing the trick. 😀

DH & I were on this 28 day cruise around Australia. Due to changes in itinerary (as well as everything else onboard) we decided to disembark in Melbourne last Sunday. We were extremely cautious and vigilant throughout the cruise. Masked up indoors and mostly outdoors unless socially distanced. Washy washy, sanitise at every opportunity. Did not visit the theatre for the shows or lectures nor did we sit in the Universe lounge for performances by guest artists. Rarely sat in any of the bars unless we could socially distance. We didn't do any tours onland. It was definitely not like cruising preCovid. We did NOT contract Covid onboard and continually tested negative but .... at home at lunch time yesterday (Monday) we were feeling the onset of a cold. Did a RAT and we were positive. Fortunately we were home and our GP quickly organised antivirals for us (both in our 70s) and we are starting to feel a little better after our 2nd dose this morning. Thankfully we were home and not still onboard. I'm not complaining at all, but I urge everyone if on a cruise - be careful and be vigilant.

Thanks for the warning. Yuk. I'll make sure I request NO mushrooms, JUST snails! LOL I'll pretend I'm allergic to mushrooms. 🥴