We feel sure that you lovely readers won’t want to read all the minutiae of our daily life on board the lovely Queen Victoria as we head home across the Atlantic, as scintillating as reading about what cakes we ate, how many crosswords we finished and how many times we…

So, apparently it is windy in Bermuda, so the captain has cancelled it. He tells us he is also keeping Ponta Delgada “under review” (a euphemism for “also cancelled!”). So there are lots of disgruntled punters on the ship just now. Also we miss our art teacher Valerie very much…

Today we visited the ‘Grand’ Lucayan resort as part of a Cunard excursion – advertised as an idyllic paradise on the beach. Whilst the beach is very pleasant and the bar functional, we could not get over the rest of the resort. The main hotel has clearly been closed for…

Yippee – Fort Lauderdale! This morning we disembarked the ship at approximately 10:30 am and walked to the nearest waterbus stop about a kilometre away. We bought ourselves a day pass and jumped on the next boat-bus (they literally look like floating buses) which took us to the beach. As…

Today we jumped out of bed bright and early and made our way on shore by about 9 am, where we hopped in a taxi to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island. To say that we forked out a King’s Ransom for our two passes for a day at this…

Today we had a surprise guest speaker – Didi Conn (aka Frenchie) from the movie Grease!! Oh my goodness, what a lovely human being. She talked at length about the movie, showed us loads of behind the scenes photos, gave us insights into some of the actors, as well as…

We did three things today: painting, sunbathing and eating!

Aruba is a small island located 18 miles off the coast of Venezuela and is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is 20 miles long and 6 miles wide, with a population of 108,000. Its main economic activities are tourism and aloe vera production. It has one of…