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Sounds delicious!

Morning all, proper misty looking Autumn looking day! Still going to be high 20’s here but it’s sopping wet in my garden at the moment, I’m delaying putting my washing out as the grass is soaked! I actually slept well once I got to sleep, I did pull the curtains in the afternoon in our bedroom which helps.

Bless him, still such a worry for you all but it seems he’s on the mend. I hope he doesn’t suffer any anxiety in the future due to this.

I'm one of those odd people who like tonic neat! So I take a pack of mini tonics with me now to drink in the cabin as I like cold drinks, my husband can drink coffee all day long but I can only drink so much! (I do like a gin and tonic too 😊 )

I don’t know what else to add @Peanut006 about your grandson, how upsetting for you all. I hope he’s recovering well. Very hot here again but by the time I walked 35 mins home from work, leaving at 1pm I was too hot to even think about sitting in the garden. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll get a bit of time outside before I have my haircut at 11 and start work at 1pm! My day off yesterday but spent most of it at my parent’s flat! Take care all.

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Although we don’t live a huge distance away (Kent) I sometimes wish we had the coach option. I had one cruise with my friend and we would have liked to have used the coach but the nearest pick up point was Victoria coach station in London! A pick up point like Maidstone would have been better. Much too much faff getting there so my friend’s husband took us and mine picked us up! Mind you we do like getting off the ship early on disembarking and getting home quickly, I guess it takes a while getting home on the coach. Our first cruise we were on top deck watching the last coach passengers running on as they were late! We did wait for them though.

I have a friend in Turkey at the moment, she was looking at the rain yesterday while we had hot and sunny weather! I hope the weather improves for you.

Been enjoying all your photos, keep enjoying the cruise!

Evening all. Been busy running errands for my parents Friday and Saturday but yesterday we escaped to my happy place- Broadstairs! John was sceptical as it was a bit murky driving down but I told him it was going to improve - lovely few hours were spent there. Today, back to reality mentally busy day at work (due to not enough staff) and I’ve got to help M&D out again tomorrow, no restful day off! It’s warm in their flat so I will be melting!

We did this cruise in June (same ship) and we did have biscuits when we arrived, they weren’t replaced though so my husband asked a cabin steward who was outside our cabin and she gave us some! I have done a few 4night cruises and never found them to be ‘booze cruises’ We had a 3 night over the weekend on Britannia last Easter that had a lively atmosphere at sailaway but other than that it was fine.

I’m so pleased you’re home now. How many nights did you have to stay in the hotel?

Hope your house is ok, have a lovely cruise.

It was terrible wasn’t it! We were at Hempstead Valley getting some shopping for my parents and we could see it gushing down the glass roof bit near M&S like a waterfall! When we got to their flat their car park was partially flooded! Crazy weather.

Have a lovely time, yes please to photos!

Evening all. I’ve been in the office today and then over to the parents this afternoon. This means I’ve just had a little nap on the settee! It’s a bit late for a nap, I hope I sleep ok, I’ve had some awful sleeps lately but with the long weekend forced myself to have little naps earlier in the day! Mum is looking rather tired and not her normal self. All very worrying. Also nipped to our local railway station to see if there were any ticket office staff about to see how we can get some train tickets in a couple of weeks. There wasn’t but there was a very helpful chap who showed us how to use the machines (we’re not tech phobes but have had trouble with the machines there before and given up!) I have got tickets online for the major part of the journey but I tend to just buy local tickets for the first part of the journey to London.

Good to see you back Sharon, I hope you continue to improve, what a long recovery you’re having.

I’m enjoying your report, happy memories of our cruise to Amsterdam in June. Loved the transit through the canal in the daylight, previously we have arrived overnight and woken up to find us docked. Your picture reminded me that lots of people in the office could be seen at the windows taking photos of us with their phones! Enjoy the rest of your trip.

I think when passengers were first being asked no one would have known about the air traffic control problems. It was August bank holiday so everywhere full and from the first reports I heard it appeared they were being flown straight home they wouldn’t have expected to stay one night let alone two and certainly not in an unsuitable hotel. I feel very sorry for them as they probably thought they were flying straight home. No way I would have volunteered, i have a fear of flying. I expect we’ll find out soon enough how their hotel experience was.

Just seen a positive post of some pax enjoying celebration night as they sail off!

Afternoon, John is off today (he was working all weekend) I was hoping for a trip out somewhere but we couldn’t decide where to go so we popped to Mum and Dad’s and did a few things for them then just went to a local pub and had some lunch. Nice food but a very long wait. It was very dark inside and there was a garden but the sun was going in and out. We decided to take our coffee outside as the sun was out and that was very pleasant.

Where are you actually staying? Bowness is the main town on Windermere so I don’t think it matters which route you take really. We travelled from Lakeside as our apartment was near there and Bowness itself was hard to park in some days. This was July though and most people were holidaying in the UK so it hopefully won’t be so busy when you go. We were so lucky with the weather and it was my favourite day of the week.

We stayed near Windermere in 2021 the main place was Bowness but it’s very very busy and we had trouble parking there some days. We were staying near a stop called Lakeside so we decided to do the cruise to Bowness and back. That worked well but I wished we’d stayed longer because everyone starting queuing about half hour before the boat back 😂 This was still covid times so we had to book the boats in advance, I would have liked to stay longer. I would think you don’t need to book now. Years ago I think we stopped at Ambleside but I can’t remember much about it!

I hate flying which is why I cruise! If I had to in this circumstance I could but I’d be incredibly stressed and hope there would be enough volunteers!

Re Aurora I will be onboard for the first time next March, I’m only doing short cruises at the moment. We should have gone on her in 2014 but it was cancelled due to the big refit when she had the flag painted on the bow. Looking forward to finally getting onboard!