Showing posts with label cruising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cruising. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

One more sleep...

Well, here we are with only one more sleep until the big off.
All packed and ready, and under weight, which is good. Got a reply from the big cruise (P & O), to say they are strict about dress codes on the formal and semi-formal nights. This is their policy, so if we don't want to do the stiff shirt thing, we'll just go and have a pizza or whatever.

However, it is discrimination against us males, as the ladies can get by with a nice pair of trousers and a fancy top. But we mere males have to do the shirt/jacket/tie thing, which is extremely uncomfortable, and as I have no neck to speak of, a collar and tie craps me right off.

I love dining, but I love dining when I'm comfortable.

So, you pay out your money for the cruise, which includes all meals, and then have to "make do" somewhere else on the ship, because you don't want to dress up!!

We won't feel we are really off until we get on the plane in Sydney on Thursday morning. They have been flying out to Japan every day since the earthquake, so I can't see why they should stop now. The real plus will be knowing we are leaving Narita for London on Friday. 

Then we will definitely be on our way... 

Monday, September 27, 2010

Going My Way?

Travel journals are something we have done in a notebook on past trips, and having caught up with the new technology stuff, (with a lot of help from our daughter), we intend to document our plans and adventures as they happen.

Next year, we are returning to the UK for another 3 months or so, to firstly catch up with "newly-found" relatives, and to do something that Lee had always wanted to do, see Norway. That will involve a 15 day cruise at the end of the trip.