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Welcome aboard and nice to meet you. My wife and I are seasoned cruisers having first dipped our toes into the world of cruising in 1990, a one week cruise on board the Cunard Countess. The majority of our cruising has been with two cruise lines, Cunard and P&O. We have, however, sailed on 21 different cruise ships, some many times over, on 11 different cruise lines while completing 619 cruise nights on board.

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Seabourn Sojourn – Yachtsman’s Mediterranean

November 17, 2016by solentrichard 8 Comments

  My wife and I have recently returned from a one week cruise onboard Seabourn Sojourn. The cruise was entitled…. ‘Yachtsman’s Mediterranean: it could easily have been entitled ‘beyond the […]

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Scenic Diamond Beautiful Bordeaux

October 1, 2016by solentrichard 14 Comments

My wife and I have recently returned from a 10 night Scenic River cruise from Bordeaux with an itinerary that took us along the Gironde, Garonne and Dordogne rivers…   […]

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Return to Europa 2

July 29, 2016by solentrichard Leave a comment

Having recently booked for 2017 a second cruise on board Europa 2,  my wife and I were delighted to receive an invitation, courtesy of Emma Taylor at  Six Star Cruises […]

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Princess Panhwar on the ‘Road to Mandalay’.

March 10, 2016by solentrichard 39 Comments

မင်္ဂလာပါ  –  pronounced  Mingelaba and is the traditional Burmese  greeting and welcome. My wife and I have recently returned from a 14 night river cruise along Myanmar’s (Burma’s) Irrawaddy River […]

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Oceania Riviera – Mayan Mystique

January 31, 2016by solentrichard 14 Comments

My wife and I recently completed a cruise on board Oceania’s cruise ship, Riviera…   … a  10 night fly-cruise out of Miami entitled ‘Mayan Mystique‘… Itinerary   This was […]

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Viking Star – A Taste of Something Different

December 28, 2015by solentrichard 17 Comments

My wife and I have recently returned from a one week cruise on Viking Star, part of her  maiden cruise season… As part of the Viking package we flew on […]

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Viking Hermod – Portraits of Southern France

November 9, 2015by solentrichard 6 Comments

My wife and I have recently returned from a river cruise along the Saône and Rhone Rivers of Southern France onboard the Viking Hermod…   *****   This was our fourth […]

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Queen Mary 2 Anniversary Voyage

July 24, 2015by solentrichard 16 Comments

On 2nd of July my wife and I embarked  Queen Mary 2 at Southampton for Cunard’s 175th Anniversary Voyage between Liverpool and Halifax. This celebration was to mark the occasion […]

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Seven Seas Voyager visited

June 8, 2015by solentrichard 2 Comments

This weekend my wife and I were invited to visit Regent Seven Seas Voyager during her scheduled call to Southampton; an invitation we gratefully accepted. We have previously sailed with […]

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Celebrity Eclipse 5 Night Charter Cruise

June 5, 2015by solentrichard 12 Comments

On Monday 25 May I joined Celebrity Eclipse at Southampton for a 5 night ‘short’ cruise to France and Belgium.   ********   ********   This was really a very […]

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Britannia – The Maiden Cruise

March 30, 2015by solentrichard 58 Comments

My wife and I have just returned from the maiden voyage of P&O’s latest cruise ship Britannia…   The previous week we had been among the crowds at Calshot Spit, […]

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Silver Spirit to Tahiti

February 12, 2015by solentrichard 10 Comments

‘ My wife and I recently completed a 12 night cruise on board Silversea’s Silver Spirit. We joined the ship in Los Angeles and sailed with her as far as […]

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Queen Elizabeth Fanzine and Hamburg Cruise

January 14, 2015by solentrichard 11 Comments

My wife and I have just completed a very satisfying short cruise on board Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth from Southampton to Hamburg and return. This was very much a last minute […]

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Amalotus Mekong River Cruise

January 5, 2015by solentrichard 5 Comments

Part 3 of the Far Eastern Trilogy that my wife and I recently completed covers the main reason for the journey – the cruise along the Mekong River between My Tho […]

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A Far Eastern Trilogy – Part 1 – Halong Bay

December 9, 2014by solentrichard 11 Comments

My wife and I have recently returned from a 22 night multi-centre full-on adventure rather than a holiday, which included a 7 day river cruise along the Mekong River, a 3 […]

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Ships, Shoes and Maggiemou.

October 7, 2014by solentrichard 3 Comments

    By way of  a little promotion I am taking the unusual step of plugging a really fun book on cruising that has recently been published by one of […]

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