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#54 Yet Another 2-Weeks in the Canaries

Posted: August 15, 2025 in 2025, Another Cruise, Cruising, general, OaP, P&O, Podge, Prostate Cancer, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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The Never Ending Retirement Saga – April 2025

While packing for the cruise, Podge became aware that his holiday clothes had again missed him so much. He tried them on, just to say hi, and they hugged him so tightly that poor Podge couldn’t move. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.

Again, the cruise started pretty much as any previous cruise for Podge and Tubbs: They drive to the port; They throw their cases through a whole in the wall; They check in (priority of course); They immediately go through security and board the ship (Britannia, as usual); They check in at muster station; They go to the restaurant for welcome lunch and dinner; They meet fellow guests; They drink lots of lovely wine and fizzy pop then; They go to their suite for a brief lie down to wait for their luggage and of course, their butler and cabin steward. Again, they looked at each other and both agreed: Yep, they were home once more.

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#53 Yet Another Two Weeks on the Britannia

Posted: May 26, 2025 in Another Cruise, Cruising, general, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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For Podge & Tubbs – October 2024

The cruise started pretty much as any previous cruise for Podge and Tubbs: Drive to the port; throw their cases through a whole in the wall; check in (priority of course); wait 5 to 10 minutes; board the ship (Britannia, as usual); check in at muster station; go to restaurant for welcome lunch and dinner; meet fellow guests; drink lots of lovely wine and fizzy pop then, go to their suite for a brief lie down to wait for their luggage: Only this time it was already there. They looked at each other and both agreed, they were home once more and crashed out on their marshmallow bed and took an hour out, to rest.

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Reflections of a 6-Week Cruise on the Britannia

Posted: October 28, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, general, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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The Great Sail Home, it was actually a TransAtlantic Cruise, with a stop at the Azores. The scheduled stop was to be Ponta Delgada in the Azores. We’d been there before and planned to repeat our last visit. We wanted to take the excursion of the Sights and Cheese and Wine Sampler. This included a trip to see the two lakes, Sete Cidades. The lakes are famous for their striking colours. One lake appears green and the other blue. But, the weather can be very changeable. Rain and wind are common.

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#52 Antigua – Day 33 (Day 5 of Week 5)

Posted: September 28, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, general, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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26/03/2024 – Last stop before the great sail home – to Southampton and, the steroids are doing their job. Podge can breathe so much better🙏.

We’ve been here so many times before that we had no great plans: Not even to visit Nelson Harbour. So, we decided that today we would simply go ashore and check out the shops but this time, we would visit Redcliffe Quay. For some reason, we’d never even seen this on the map even though its just around the corner of the main drag past the Heritage Quay Complex.

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#52 St Kitts – Day 32 (Day 4 of Week 5)

Posted: September 24, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, general, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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25/03/2024 – 3rd and last time for this trip.

Most likely not returning anytime soon as P&O seem to have dropped this port, at least on the Britannia. So sad, no more Champions Bar. 😥 An amazing bar playing lots of local songs such as, Delilah, Living Next Door to Alice (rude version) and the yogi bear song (very rude). Just loved watching the parents faces 🤣

And, we met one of Tubbs’s new boyfriends.

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