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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…

This was another port day. We were awake just after 07:00 again and were already docked. We got up and ready. The gangway was on our deck again. We headed straight there, but they were not ready yet. We had a short wait. Still, as we had no plans to get off the ship, we were in…

We were awake again around 07:00. We were in no rush that morning. This was a sea day, and we had brunch booked later than day. We took our time to get ready. Then we headed up to the pool deck. They had Aqua aerobics on the schedule that morning at 09:00. This was supposed…

We woke up just before 07:00 and noticed that the ship was no longer moving. We had arrived in port ahead of schedule. We got up and ready. Our plan had been to get some breakfast and then briefly get off the ship to get some port photos. However, when we got to the elevator lobby, there…

I was woken up again earlier than I had planned. This time it was not by church bells, but by clapping and cheering. I wondered if there was some kind of parade passing through. It was daylight when I woke up and I did not go back to sleep but read for a while. Graham…