Posts Tagged ‘Tubbs’

#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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SeaCations, Cruising is Back?

Posted: August 5, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, Memories, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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Here was to be yet more stories of our adventures of Podge (His Podgeness) & Tubbs (The Duchess) as they continued to cruise the Seven Sea and yes, we do know there actually more than seven seas (see endnote). But, as we entered into 2021, Covid was still prevalent and getting back on cruise ships still seemed beyond the proverbial horizon. Or, was it?

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#28 Sydney

Posted: June 12, 2024 in Another Cruise, Cruising, Memories, OaP, P&O, Podge, Retirement, Travel, Tubbs
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Sydney; The land of Sun, Melting Tar, Wind, Thunder Lightning & Rain

And we were only there for two days and a night.

This is an epic: I make no apologies: Sydney is, after all an epic city.

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