Cruises and cruising
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Oct 11th, 2018
Valletta from Oceana’s mooring, departure morning I did an earlier post on my initial thoughts about Oceana during the cruise, but as promised this is a summing-up of my opinions. Essentially, it’s a continuation of what I said in the earlier post – we liked the ship, or at least we found the bits of […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Oct 8th, 2018
And at last we’ve reached the pictures from the final port of call, Messina. This was a last-minute port after the call at Dubrovnik had to be cancelled due to bad weather. Here’s a link to the post covering what we did there, but basically we just went ashore and wandered around. Actually, we […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Oct 5th, 2018
Here are some images from around Oceana.
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Oct 2nd, 2018
It rained when we were in Zadar – a lot; and this was about the only picture I took, and was definitely the best. Enjoy.
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O, Venice on Oct 1st, 2018
Now for the good stuff (I hope) – pictures from the day in Venice. These were all taken with the iPhone. I already knew that photography wasn’t allowed in the basilica on Torcello so I decided to go light and just take the phone. You can be the judge of how well that worked. First, […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 30th, 2018
Here’s the next batch of images, this time from Split. This wasn’t a very satisfying day. We did an excursion in the morning, to Trogir and then to Split, and for all sorts of reasons we didn’t enjoy it much. We didn’t have enough free-time in Trogir for one thing. Then when we got to […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 29th, 2018
I promised that once we returned home I would post some images. Here is the first batch, from Valletta – some taken with the DSLR and the rest with the iPhone. They were mostly taken during our day in Valletta before we embarked Oceana. It was a good day, and we liked Valletta a lot. […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 27th, 2018
Oh joy…. just been told that our plane has technical problems and the flight is delayed. We should have boarded at 10:40 for take-off at 11:40, but now we’re being told that there’ll be more information at 12:30! Update: and then at 11:45 we were called to board! So now it’s about 12 o’clock and […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 27th, 2018
Today (Wednesday) we’ve been in Messina. As I mentioned a few posts ago, this was put into the itinerary at very short notice to replace the call in Dubrovnik which had to be cancelled. Messina is a considerably-sized city of about 250,000 (in the urban area itself) and is a busy commercial and administrative centre. […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 26th, 2018
Yesterday (Tuesday) was an unexpected sea day. We should have been at Dubrovnik but as previously posted the captain decided that it wasn’t safe to dock there for reasons to do with the weather. Instead we spent the day at sea. We just had a lazy day. In fact we got up shortly before 8 […]