Author: dolphingirl5092

I learned an important lesson that night. An arthritic knee and a single bed are not a match made in heaven. The bed was very comfortable, but there was not a lot of it. Ever since I started to have issues with my knee, I have changed position at night a lot to stay comfortable.…

We did not have particularly early start, which was very welcome as I had been on the late shift the day before and I had not packed. We got up at 09:00 and Graham made me a coffee and a cheese toastie, while I got myself organized. We took turns getting showered and we headed…

 I suppose travelling has always been in my blood and sometimes travelling really can be a live changing experience. In the early days of travelling by myself, I was on a very tight budget. To maximise the travelling I could do, I spent about 80% of the time on working holidays with the remaining 20%…

I must have slept for most of the flight as time had passed really quickly. I woke up when they were starting to serve breakfast. Graham was awake as well.  It was a funny meal choice as it was lunch time in London. As airline breakfasts go, this was quite edible. We had orange juice and…

We had set the alarm for 7:00, but we were both awake slightly ahead of it going off. We took turns getting showered. Then we packed up the last odds and ends. I got the magnets in and put them in my hand luggage. Then we left our cabin for the final time. We decided to…

 Even though we had not set an alarm, we were awake just before 08:00. We got up and ready. Then we headed to the Windjammer for breakfast. Graham had fruit, yoghurt and oatmeal. I had my usual congee. Be both had some juice and coffee.  After breakfast, Graham wanted to go back to the cabin…

This was our last port day, and one I was rather looking forward to. Our port stop that day was Ketchikan. We had previously visited Ketchikan in 2013 and really enjoyed our time there. Unfortunately, neither of our cruises in 2022 took us there. I was delighted that we would get another chance to visit. We were not due…

I woke up in the middle of the night and realised that I had no idea where our excursion tickets were. They had been propped up against the mirror, but they were no longer there. Going back to sleep was not an option. We usually like our stateroom hosts and the stateroom host that we…

After having to miss Skagway on the way north, we were going to make this port on the way back south. However, we had to tender. This did not fill me with joy as we had an independent excursion booked with a meeting time at 09:30 and tendering can be an unpredictable science. They were…

This was our second stop in Juneau. The weather forecast for this day had been abysmal when I had checked it the previous day and it was every bit as bad as the forecast had suggested. I was very glad that we did not have any plans after we gave up on the idea of…