Author: dolphingirl5092

Even though we had been in bed pretty early again, I slept through most of the night. I woke up at one point in the very early morning hours. I did not immediately settle back down. I read a couple of chapters and then I went back to sleep. The next time I woke up,…

I slept through most of the night. I woke up when they came round with drinks. Apparently, I had missed the snacks. I had some mango juice. We had about 90 minutes left until we were due to land in Singapore. I decided to play Trivial Pursuit. They had a watered-down version compared to what…

I had set the alarm for 5:45 and was awake just ahead of that time. I had a bit of a restless night. I tend to sleep in stops and starts before an early flight anyway. However, this time my body decided that it is a great time for a flare up for a chronic bowel…

Time definitely flies when you are having fun. In what felt like a blink of an eye, our holiday had arrived. I still had a day at work. I was awake 30 minutes before my alarm was due to go off. I made good use of this and did our online check in. I had…

This trip was not part of the great holiday rearrangement of 2025, but it still went through some evolution. It was always the plan that this trip would take us back to the far east for the first time since the pandemic. We had originally planned to spend 5 days in Singapore and then do a…

Just like this, our last day had arrived. We had not set an alarm, and it was nearly 08:30 by the time we woke up. Graham decided to pack. I was not in the mood for packing and read instead. I hate packing with a passion, and I had not got much to do anyway as I…

This was another port day and actually the only port day where we were getting off for longer than to just get some port photos. We were awake around 07:30 again and got ready. Even though we were going to go exploring later that day, we took care of the photos straightaway as we were not sure…

We woke up at around 07:30 and got ready. Then we headed out to get the port photos done. I was surprised that the gangway was on our deck. Every time we had been to Civitavecchia, the gangway has always been on deck 5. It looked like half the ship was heading for the gangway. We decided to…