” The best cruise ship that you’ve never heard of”. Around mid July this year I received an email notification from a well respected American cruise blogger that I […]

When the opportunity arose for us to take what could loosely be described as a bit of a ‘stocking filler’ cruise and a number of like minded friends on the […]

  This Viking River Cruise review is dedicated to a fellow cruise blogger, Malcolm Oliver.  It would appear that Malcolm has yet to experience a river cruise yet he tends […]

  My wife and I have recently returned from an 11 night cruise on board the Celebrity Infinity.     This was our second cruise on Celebrity Infinity, the previous one being some 15 […]

  Its been some time since my wife and I took a last minute, spur of the moment cruise but when this one on P&O’s Ventura was spotted on a travel […]

    Friday 9 May 2014 and all three Cunard Queens’ arrive in Southampton to celebrate together the 10th Birthday of Queen Mary 2.     Solent Richard took up […]

Well there we have it, my first 12 months of blogging and I have to admit I am over the moon with the results.     Now I know that […]

When the Cunard 2014  World Cruise schedule was published some 18 months ago my wife and I took a fancy to a segment of Queen Mary 2’s itinerary that circumnavigated Australia. […]

When the opportunity recently arose for my wife and I to try something new in the way of a cruise line that we had previously never been tempted by it was a […]

Yesterday evening I watched as Cunard’s Queen Victoria passed Lee on the Solent, setting off on her World Cruise. Quickly checking my current Cunard Brochure I saw that she is […]

I have yet to see a cruise  review that gave a port visit to Salalah anything but the thumbs down. So it was with some trepidation that my wife and I […]

I’m not really sure whether a summary is actually needed however, I started with an aim and I would guess I should, for the record, state whetehr or not that […]

The final sea day on board Queen Mary 2 and I looked ahead to another fully packed programme with no firm time in my mind to consider packing. The first […]

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 […]

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 […]