Posts Tagged ‘Britannia’

#51 St Vincent – Day 21 (Day 7 of Week 3)

Posted: July 25, 2024 in 2024, Another Cruise, Cruising, Memories, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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2nd visit to the cage bar – it was only supposed to be a quick beer then back to the suite for a lie down but, after 4-beers we decided to stop at the glass house on board and have a late lunch (we can then skip the evening meal) which was to be accompanied by a glass of Bacchus and a glass of fizzy pop only to find out that lunch included two glasses of sparking white wine which naturally, accompanied our original choice.

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#51 Bonaire – Day 19 (Day 5 of Week 3)

Posted: June 19, 2024 in 2024, Another Cruise, Cruising, Memories, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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Today was to be the day when Podge found the ideal tour for The Duchess, it was an excursion to view the Bonaire Flamingos and the Salt Flats of Bonaire (Picture from BonaireSeaSalt.com), a journey through the lush mangrove preserves towards the beautiful south-east of Bonaire. To be honest, I suspect Debbie had no real interest in the Salt Flats as her primary interest was seeing the pink flamingos. 🦩

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#51 Curacao – Day 18 (Day 4 of Week 3)

Posted: June 10, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, Memories, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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Today, we’re back to Curacao for the 2nd time this cruise so we chose not to take an excursion. Mrs Me therefore decreed that we should walk into town to see the swing bridge that everybody kept going on about(!) and of course, look at some shops. Bought some heirlooms (otherwise known as tat by the children) and Debbie bought the first ever pink girlie article (clothing) for our new granddaughter. It turned out that the clothing was actually too small as our new granddaughter had grown quicker than we had realised, mind you. she was only born 3-weeks before we left and we were away for 6-weeks so we weren’t really that surprised.

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#51 Barbados – Day 16 (Day 2 of Week 3)

Posted: June 3, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, Memories, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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Thanks to forward planning on the part of The Duchess, we had managed to secure a table for Dinner in The Limelight Club this evening to see ‘The One and Only’ Chesney Hawkes. So, we had much to look forward to for the 2nd day of our 2nd cruise. But first, we need to complete some unavoidable chores.

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2024 – Retirement Year

Posted: June 1, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, general, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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We finally agreed that 2024 would be the year we jacked it all in so we celebrate with 3 back-to-back cruises (February through to April). 

Come the end of 2024 it was hoped that we would both be able to get up at 6 0’clock in the morning and drive really slow so everyone else is late for work. In retrospect post Covid there probably aren’t that many people who drive to work in the morning. Anyway, the plan was to retire: Remove Outlook from our computers, ditch Powerpoint and quit LinkedIn [maybe]!. And so we started to plan our retirement cruises. Our first (pre-retirement) would be to cruise the Caribbean and sail back to Southampton while the second (post retirement) would be to cruise the Canaries, back to Southampton then stay on and cruise to the Caribbean. Next stop therefore was the P&O Sales Desk 🙂

We spoke ever so nicely to the lady from P&O who was able to help us find our ideal suite (with a Butler of course, Tubbs could no longer consider cruising life without a Butler) which gave us 2-weeks island hopping followed by 2-weeks, starting in the Caribbean, and then, sailing back across the [vast] Atlantic back to Southampton via the Azores. 

Podge and Tubbs were happy with their choice. Then, about 4-weeks later, Podge (with his scheming head) realised that the cruise before the ones we’d booked actually coincided with our 10th Wedding Anniversary. A quick furtive look on the P&O website revealed that the suite we had already booked was still available for the cruise before. 

So, Podge plied Tubbs with many glasses of Bacchus before suggesting that perhaps we should book the extra cruise so that we are on board for our Wedding Anniversary while pointing out that we could have the same suite (and butler) throughout. Tubbs relented and agreed and less than 10 minutes later, the third cruise was booked: Podge was happy, Tubbs was still wondering what she had agreed to and another bottle was brought out. Fortunately, the next day both Podge and Tubbs were happy that we now had a 6-week pre-retirement cruise (5-weeks in the Caribbean and 1-week sailing home – how decadent). 

This is a long post purely because it’s a long cruise and it does mark the start of our [at last] retirement 🙌

Feb – Apr 2024

#50, #51, #52 – P&O – Britannia

(Captain – Patrick Maguire)

Itinerary

Getting There

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