March 27, 2025March 27, 2025Holiday Landing, Japan 2025 Japan In-depth 2025 – day 00 – Thu 27/03 When embarking on a long-haul destination, we have so little and perversely so much choice – there are no direct flights from […]
June 25, 2024March 19, 2025Adriatic & Aegean 2024, Holiday Landing Adriatic & Aegean 2024 – day 00 – Sat 20/07 03:15 cannot possibly be a time, surely it’s just a badly formatted ratio? Sadly no, two alarms ring out at this most […]
January 27, 2024February 2, 2024Canaries and Madeira 2024, Holiday Landing Canarias Cruise 2024 – Sat 27/01 – day 00 Saturdays always start with meter readings. While Hubby is making my breakfast I read the electricity and water meters, and also those […]
October 17, 2023April 15, 2025Holiday Landing, Pacific Islands 2023 Pacific Islands 2023 – Day 00 – Thu 19/10 The day is a normal work-day up to lunchtime, while hubby packs – we don’t even leave for the airport until mid […]
March 5, 2023February 16, 2025Holiday Landing, South America 2023 South America 2023 – day 00 – Sunday 05/03 Sunday may technically be the start of our South America trip but it really started on Wednesday evening, after I turned off […]
July 7, 2022July 31, 2023Al Grappolo D’Oro, Holiday Landing, Mediterranean 2022 Western Med 2022 – Day 0 – July 07 “Early” doesn’t even begin to conjure up our timetable for the day. Add in that we went to A Little Night Music […]
December 28, 2021June 6, 2026Caribbean 2022, Holiday Landing Caribbean 2022 – Day 0 – Tuesday 11 Jan Popular recent opinion is that a large ship is one over 135,000 tonnes. Looking back 100 years, 35,000 was pretty large, and […]
July 4, 2021June 6, 2026England tour 2021, Holiday Landing, Winchester Bournemouth UK 2021 – Day 01 – Sunday 04/07/21 We’ve ditched the canal boat – not in a quasi-catastrophic waterways-rage sense, just inasmuch as we haven’t booked one this year. Otherwise […]
December 30, 2015August 4, 2023Holiday Landing, Mexican Riviera 2016, Travel Mexican Riviera 2016 – Overview of our cruise We’re on Holland America Line’s Veendam doing two journeys back-to-back – a seven day ‘New Years’ celebration followed by a 14 day […]