Solo Trans – Atlantic Blog Day 6
I now appear to be into standard routine: no surprise there, if it works why change it. A leisurely breakfast around 8.00 am followed by the first serial of the […]
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Solo Trans-Atlantic Live Blog Day 5
Should my wife be reading this I know she will be amused at this page because today was my first fully operational visit to the launderette. Awake early and at […]
Solo Trans-Atlantic Live Blog Day 4
As Commodore Rynd had predicted the sea calmed down over night and the header photo was taken from my breakfast table in Britannia Grill and repeated here: still a reasonable […]
Solo Trans-Atlantic Live Blog Day 3
Readers may notice that the header photograph for today is taken from the G32. It may give a clue as to where I am spending the latter parts of the evening/early morning. […]
Solo Trans-Atlantic Live Blog Day 2
I had an early start to the day, a little bit of fine tuning in order to get yesterdays blog published. The wifi connection to the ‘Britannia Club’stateroom is good […]
Solo Trans-Atlantic Live Blog Day 1
Few cruise lines evoke the spirit of cruising more strongly than Cunard and crossing the Atlantic on Cunard’s flagship the Queen Mary 2 has to be one of the classic […]
One Way to do Muscat
While cruising on board Oceania Nautica we made a scheduled call to the port of Muscat. This was the very first occasion we had visited Muscat which is the Capital of Oman […]
One way to do Hamburg – Lüneburg Edition
Having arrived at the port of Hamburg on three occasions this year, once with Queen Victoria and twice on board Queen Mary 2 my wife and I decided it was time […]
We Are Cunard Fanzine Launch
A NEW Cunard online Fanzine was launched as a Facebook Group in November 2013 with the aim of bringing together Cunard fans who may prefer to socially chat with other like-minded […]
One Way to Do Gibraltar
It’s not often I get a request to do a ‘One way to do…’ so I was particularly chuffed when a fellow blogger made a request for one on Gibraltar. […]
One Way to Do Florence and Pisa
There are probably more questions asked of the cruising community regarding visits to Florence and Pisa from the port of Livorno, than for any other regular cruise ship port. It therefore gives […]
One Way to do Oslo
On a recent cruise on board Queen Mary 2 the ship called at the Norwegian Capital, Oslo. This review will hopefully illustrate how much of that unique city can be […]
A Big Thank You
I was about to sign off this afternoon and noticed that sometime today, Thursday 17 October, Solent Richard’s Cruise Blog passed the 20,000 hits mark. Not in my wildest dreams […]
A New Star is Born
In an unusual break from my normal format of only reviewing cruise ships that I have actually been on I thought I would take this opportunity to look into the […]
One Way to do Skagway – Part 1
Probably the most interesting port of call on a recent Alaskan cruise with Regent Seven Seas Navigator was Skagway. My wife and I had chosen to take one of the ship’s […]
One Way to do Skagway – Part 2
Following on from Skagway Part 1 we found ourselves with enough time on our hands to discover Skagway town rather than return directly to the ship. There is genuinely something […]
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