Paul and Sandy on holiday - stories from our last few holidays and plans for the next one(s)!
Upcoming holidays:
Upcoming Holidays:
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.
Monday, 4 February 2013
New Zealand Cruise Day 5 - Auckland
As predicted - another lazy day.
I had a really bad night's sleep last night - for some reason the entire ship was vibrating and I found it to be really annoying; it took me hours to get to sleep.
Anyway, we arrived in port as expected and people were able to start leaving the ship at around 7am. We wandered off at about 9am - avoiding both the breakfast rush and the 'get off the ship' rush.
I took a photo of the ship and I've added an arrow to show roughly where our cabin is - you might have to click on the picture to make it big enough to see the arrow.
The floor of our balcony is roughly level with the top of the lifeboat you can see in front of it, so although they call our cabin 'obstructed view' it isn't all that obstructed.
You can see from this photo that the weather is still glum and overcast, just like yesterday. It didn't rain much at all though, and in fact the headlines on the newspapers are all about the 50 year drought that's apparently happening.
We didn't have a lot planned for today - we've been to Auckland a couple of times already. I went and got a prepaid sim card for my phone, so I can use it for data (Facebook etc) while we're here. We also picked up couple of other bits and pieces then came back to the ship and - no doubt you'll all be incredibly surprised - lazed away the rest of the day!
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