Of course, this is a retirement cruise for Sandy, since Paul has already joined the forces of the happily retired. I don't have any formal plans to retire yet, although I doubt that I'll manage more than two or three more years at my job, it's getting more and more frustrating - either that or I'm becoming more and more a crabby old lady :-)
In any case, I haven't had any trouble coming up with plans for a retirement cruise. It's not on sale yet, but will be in a couple of days time. It's similar to one we were going to do on the Emerald Princess this year - it's in October / November 2018, sailing from Southampton to Singapore via the Mediterranean and Suez Canal. We'd spend a week or so in England before-hand of course.
The cruise itself ticks off a number of bucket list items - to be honest, more than the Emerald Princess one would have. Among others there's Gibraltar which Paul is keen to see, Florence which I'm keen to see, Valletta which we were both really disappointed when it was dropped from our Mediterranean cruise back in September.
I'll no doubt rave some more about it if we really decide to book - apparently bookings open at 3am our time (!!) on Friday, so watch this space for news!
Oh, and just in case any of my workmates are reading this - I don't really plan to retire just because I'm taking a retirement cruise, I suspect I'll still work for a while after this one. I just want to do this cruise while I'm still young enough to enjoy it!
