Category:Holiday

Good morning all! 👍😉. After our recent long-distance travel from home, plus a sleepover at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Changi Airport in Singapore, we’re now both a bit more ‘with it’. Missed a Post?Day 1 – HEREDay 2 – HERE or scroll to the foot of this Post Day 3 – Where are we? …
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Evening all! 😵‍💫😵‍💫 Day 2 – Where are we? (Thursday, 31st October) This is the briefest of stopovers in Singapore before we grab the plane tomorrow taking us to Australia. We’re also returning to Singapore at the other end of this holiday – Day 31 – where we’ll have a few days to properly soak …
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Today, the news in the UK was dominated by the ‘doom, doom and even more doom’ of the Labour Government’s first budget since April 2010. With all the negativity, this could be a great opportunity to leave the country for a big holiday! So we did! 😉. Let’s hope they don’t end up taxing ‘number …
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Friday, 29thDay 8 (of 8) Why Thessaloniki? (click for more) We’re in Thessaloniki, Greece for a week that incorporated my Birthday celebrations a few days ago! 👍. The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is Greece’s second major economic, industrial, commercial …
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Thursday, 28thDay 7 (of 8) Why Thessaloniki? (read more…) We’re in Thessaloniki, Greece for a week, incorporating my Birthday celebrations (a couple of days ago)! 👍. The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is Greece’s second major economic, industrial, commercial and …
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Wednesday, 27thDay 6 (of 8) Why Thessaloniki? (click here for more) We’re in Thessaloniki, Greece for a week (incorporating my Birthday celebrations, yesterday) 👍. The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is Greece’s second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, …
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Monday, 23rdDay 4 (of 8) Why Thessaloniki? (read more…) We’re in Thessaloniki, Greece for a week, incorporating my Birthday celebrations too! 👍. The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is Greece’s second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a …
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Sunday, 24thDay 3 (of 8) Why Thessaloniki? (click for more) We’re in Thessaloniki, Greece for a week, incorporating my Birthday celebrations too (in a few days)! 👍. The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is also Greece’s second major economic, industrial, …
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Saturday, 23rdDay 2 (of 8) Why Thessaloniki? (click for more) We’re in Thessaloniki, Greece for a week, incorporating my Birthday celebrations too (in a few days!) 👍. The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is also Greece’s second major economic, industrial, …
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Friday, 22nd – Day 1 (of 8) We’re off to Thessaloniki, Greece for a week, incorporating my Birthday celebrations too! 👍 The location is also known as Thessalonica and is the second-largest city in Greece, with just over one million inhabitants. It is also Greece’s second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre together with …
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Saturday, 6th May: Coronation Day – Heading Home Our final day here in LA! So, for the last time (for a while)… “Hello, loyal Readers!” 👍 They Think It’s All Over… Well, even by our standards, that was some holiday! They think it’s all over! Almost! Our flight is an overnighter, leaving LA at 10.30 …
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Friday, 5th May:Venice Beach,Los Angeles Good morning, loyal Readers! 😎. This is the penultimate day of our holiday – and the weather forecast, as you can see, is ‘varied’ (polite version!) 😟. It’s our second day here in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, where (luckily) the weather has, so far, defied the official forecast and been …
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Thursday, 4th May:Venice Beach,Los Angeles Morning All! 👍👍. We slipped into dock just after 6.15. It looked like a grey day out there! But here’s hoping! At just after 8.45am, we were back on dry land, having said goodbye to the Regatta. Our next stop? The Kinney hotel, west of Los Angeles, about a 50-minute …
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Sea Days x6: Friday, 28th April – Wednesday, 3rd May Hello you! It’s been a while hasn’t it? 😉. ‘Days at Sea’ are inevitably, part of the whole ‘cruise experience’ and it’s all about making the most of that time away from land. SIX days IS a long period, and it pays to have some …
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Thursday, 27th April: Honolulu (Day 2) – Pearl Harbour Aloha! 👍😎. It’s our final Port day today in Honolulu where our priority is to visit the Pearl Harbour Memorial. Time permitting, we also want to cover the Red Route on the Trolleybus that we postponed yesterday because of the deteriorating weather. The latest forecast shows …
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Wednesday, 26th April: Honolulu, Oahu IslandDay 1 “Aloha loyal Reader!” Guess where we are! Yes, it’s our second day in the Hawaiian Islands and our first day (of two) in Honolulu. We docked around 6.20am (local), 5.20pm (KMT). Our first view wasn’t that impressive, though! 😟 We have two major priorities today: the first? Stay …
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Tuesday, 25th April: Lahaina, Maui Morning readers. Welcome back! After four days at sea and 2000 (ish) miles, 🥴🥴 our journey northwards from French Polynesia to the Hawaiian Islands has been completed. We arrived into Lahaina, on the Northwest coast of Maui Island (part of The Hawaiian Islands) at 10.03am local time  (9.03pm, UK time). …
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Friday, 21st – Monday, 24th April: All at sea, heading for Lahaina, Maui Morning All! 👍👍. For us, a slight change of routine begins today. Yesterday afternoon, we left French Polynesia and we’re now heading north (ish) for the Hawaiian Islands. We’ve got four days at sea (and about 2000 miles!) ahead of us to …
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