Stuart's Travel

Another night of sleep scarcity, despite my best attempts to assure a long deep slumber. Maybe it’s the constant drone from the air conditioning or the motion of the ship or.. no, I don’t know.so fref Still, even with the clocks going back overnight it was 6am before I emerged to find us gliding between […]

An early start to the day, my final one in China. This wasn’t really by choice, six hours sleep is a luxury for this trip but meant I was awake at 4.30am. Even that didn’t dismay me, I just relaxed and drifted. Until 5am, when I needed to call Guest Services to report an issue. […]

We cast off a minute after midnight. I heard a strange wet sound and the pier slowly drifted off to the left on the bow cam. So I headed back upstairs with my camera! After leaving Victoria Harbour a tiny light on the sea changed direction, started heading perpendicular to the ship, its speed assuring […]

Ah, a blissful afternoon spent testing the softness of the cruise ship’s paper. More experimentation needed to find out whether it was the burger, the coffee or the water I drank in my room. A brief interlude to visit Guest Services and confess that I couldn’t find the light switch for one of the lights […]

The morning of my first ever cruise I was awake before 7am. Not due to excitement but because I couldn’t sleep – don’t think that hotel bed agreed with me, not had a good sleep in it my entire stay. I did actually fall asleep at around 10.30pm but was awake again before midnight. So […]

Finally yesterday found the cat that was missing. I didn’t see her at all the morning I left, had to hunt through the house to make sure I hadn’t trapped her anywhere, and then couldn’t find her on the robotic catcam. So a full house search last night (my time – still light in the […]

I don’t get sentimental when travelling. I like to inhabit the place I’m in, deny the exotic, enjoy it as a place not a novelty. So i was surprised at my response to boarding the ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong. I guess I’d always expected to get to Hong Kong one day, but never […]

One of the longer journeys of the trip today. So long in fact that I’m not sure if it was yesterday, today, both or indeed which one I’m currently on. I got up on Thursday morning and it’s now some time on Friday evening but I was only travelling for around 24 1/2 hours. In […]

What do you take when you’re away for 88 days? All this: In the picture are.. Duck Tape, because it’s versatile. Hook and Loop magnets, for attaching to cruise ship cabin walls. This is something recommended to me as it lets you put up the ship’s programme for the day, hang clothes and also wrap […]

So.. I’m going on holiday again. (Dates, flights, ships and hotels on the tripline site) Continents : Europe, Asia, Australasia, North America, Central America, South America MS Westerdam : China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore 2+9 days port, 5 days at sea MS Noordam : Australia, Papua New Guinea 2+8 days port, 6 days at sea […]