Christopher David
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Napier
Napier, New Zealand Well, we’re blown away by New Zealand altogether. Napier is yet another beautiful town, Art Deco in design this time. Apparently, it’s Art Deco because of an earthquake but we’re not entirely sure why! Obviously, everything looks better bathed in sunshine but everything is clean here, friendly staff EVERYWHERE whether that’s on
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Wellington
Wellington Saturday 28th February Wow, what a day. We had an ultra-leisurely morning because the ship wasn’t due to dock into Wellington until 11am. Back on board time was 6.30pm. Chris had booked an independent tour, Wanderlust, who picked us up from the ship side and took us for a sightseeing tour of Wellington and
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3 Days at Sea and Dunedin
3 Days at Sea and Dunedin, NZ Tuesday 24th February – 7 weeks today – Day 50 – Halfway through!! Day 1 of 3 at sea Wow, halfway through the cruise, halfway round the world and halfway through the toothpaste. It’s been a sea day today so nothing much to tell; Chris is just jumping
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Sydney
Sydney Day 1 – we arrived in Sydney at about 6.30am and had to anchor outside the harbour because the Celebrity Edge was on the ‘proper’ berth. The crew are really good at setting things up quickly and efficiently and the tenders were running by 8am easily. We weren’t in a huge rush to get
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Melbourne
Thursday 19th February – sea day We finally got a picture of some dolphins!! Friday 20th February Melbourne, one of our favourite places. We must have been giddy because we were up early enough to watch the sunrise, and were well rewarded Again, we wouldn’t pay £5 each way for the P&O shuttle bus but
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Adelaide
Sunday 15th February Oh, dear … we had a horrible emergency on our first-of-three-sea-days. The Captain came over the tannoy at about 8pm and said that a passenger had taken that poorly that they needed to be cared for by a hospital rather than the medics onboard, and that unfortunately we’d have to put into
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7 Days at sea
7 Days at Sea Saturday – Day 1 of 7 at sea Bloody clocks have gone forward again, I don’t know whether I’m coming or going and we have another 5 or 6 to gain in the space of a week before we get to Australia. We went to see a Neil Diamond tribute chap
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Mauritius
Mauritius A first look at Mauritius pulling in this morning, and a one after dawn. Well, our narrow minds have been expanded again … Mauritius is a lot more developed and modern than we expected. I wonder if this is because of the desolate ports like Dakar in Senegal and Namibia that we’ve been to