Sunday 14 April
It is Sarah’s 40th today but we can’t get through to her on the emails or internet. It is foggy all day so we can’t see a thing outside and even any phone reception is poor.
Our immigration into the UK is dealt with on board which in many respects speeds up the process and must be a nice job for the immigration staff who have had to fly out to Cadiz to travel back on the cruise for 3 days. However, there are long queues to go through immigration.
A talk with Captain (Luke Vojvodina from Dubrovnik) from entertainment manager, Emma and evening entertainment from Jon Culshaw whose show was the first time he had been on a P &O ship.
Sal told not to go out and to totally rest tonight so no dressing up in dress suits for our last but one night.
Monday 15 April
Not foggy today but rougher and wetter with a very few vessels seen on our passage to Southampton.
Another two doctor’s visits but do get out to Breakfast, lunch with Brenda & Mick and I managed to get to see the Arcadia vocalists who performed on the main stage.
Pack all our things as we are off tomorrow, so suitcases outside by 6pm tonight, just hand luggage for the last night.
I shan’t be sorry to say goodbye to our cabin attendant, he was a little miserable and not particularly friendly.
Tuesday 16 April
The Medical staff have been brilliant and even managed to find us a wheelchair to get off the ship. Flic meets us and we head off to Gatwick for our flight home after lunch at a garden centre – Wyevale, Chichester.
It is so nice to see them and of course Cody is delighted to see us. Off to Gatwick, somewhat early for our flight but Flic and Cody stay with us for some time, Cody enjoying the ride on the Gatwick shuttle.
Our plane is on time, or would have been had a bird not struck it on the way in causing many £thousand’s of damage but a new plane was found by Easyjet very quickly.
The cruise wasn’t the best of experiences bearing in mind our various ailments but I think we made the most of the destinations / ports of call some of which it would be nice to return to (Australia, Singapore, Oman) but others equally as fascinating but not necessarily worth a return visit (Mumbai, Dubai).
I don’t think we will be doing another long cruise again though, just shorter ones in the future.
What’s next? Well, you will just have to wait and see.
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