We had a plan for Day 5, because I do my research. And so we set out to attempt a circular drive around our little slice of heaven, despite the day having dawned cloudy and grey, with the hills almost invisible as we ate breakfast. And so to the plan, which like many a plan…
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Travel 2025 – Cunard Queen Anne – Day 11 (Stavanger, Norway)
Monday 6th October, 2025 – Stavanger We arrived in Stavanger to find two things. The first was that we were seemingly parked in someone’s front garden, and the second was that Storm Amy had abated and while the weather wasn’t as good as it had been in Narvik, it wasn’t bad. It looked like we…
Travel 2025 – Cunard Queen Anne – Days 9 and 10 (At Sea, Still Heading South)
Saturday 4th /Sunday 5th October, 2025 – Narvik to Stavanger We were initially scheduled to depart Narvik some time after 05:30 in the morning but due to the approach of Storm Amy that time was brought forward to 4:00am, and we were well underway by the time I woke up. I had been planning a…
Travel 2025 – Cunard Queen Anne – Days 1, 2 and 3 (Southampton and at Sea)
Friday 26th – Sunday 28th September, 2025 – Southampton to Ã…lesund Despite not being wholly convinced by the whole “let’s go on a cruise” hype, we found ourselves handing over our car to the parking people at Southampton, dropping our luggage off with the baggage handlers, and embarking on Cunard‘s newest ship, Queen Anne, ready…
Travel 2025 – France – Day 1 to Day 4 (London to Epernay, Epernay to Lyon, Lyon to St. Remy de Provence)
And so to France. It all started a little before Christmas with a conversation with our friend A. Recently widowed, and keen to find her feet travelling again, she said she missed the south of France, where we had spent quite a lot of time together back when I worked for various companies in Sophia-Antipolis…
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