Cruises and cruising
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 26th, 2018
This is our first cruise on Oceana, so this is a new P&O ship for us! Most of our P&O experience has been on the larger ships – seven or eight cruises on Ventura and Azura, and one on Britannia. We have cruised on a couple of the smaller ships – Oriana and Arcadia – […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 25th, 2018
As a result of the weather we are not in Dubrovnik today (Tuesday); instead, we are at sea and will be calling at Messina tomorrow. That’s fine, we have no complaints about the change of itinerary. But an issue has arisen for us. As I said in an earlier post we had carefully spent almost […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 25th, 2018
On Monday evening we had a meal in Café Jardin, and this is a brief report on it. The date meant that we were eating from Menu 2. For starter we shared a ‘sharing board’, the Rustic Tempura Verdura, and that was delicious and tasty. Val then had Feathered Beef Steak for her main course […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 24th, 2018
We’ve just sailed out of Zadar and as soon as we had departed the captain announced that our call at Dubrovnik tomorrow has been cancelled. This is due to a front moving south (almost with the ship) which includes some very strong winds – the captain mentioned gusts in excess of 50 knots. Given the […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 24th, 2018
Today we’re in Zadar, and the weather has not been kind, being grey and overcast from very early on. We had nothing arranged for the day, we were always just going to go ashore, so before we left the ship the questions were all about the weather: should we expect it to get better, or […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 23rd, 2018
Today we we’ve been in Venice. Oceana entered the lagoon around 6:30, by 7:30 we were sailing slowly through St Mark’s Basin and past the Palazzo Ducale, and by not long after 8 o’clock we were tying up at the cruise terminal. Oceana is one of five or six ships that we’ve seen in port […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 22nd, 2018
Today we were in Split, and we were booked on an excursion, Sights and Sounds of Split Riviera. This consisted of a drive to Trogir, a guided walk around Trogir, a visit to the cathedral there, a refreshment break at an old mill, and finally a quick walk into old Split and an introduction to […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 20th, 2018
It’s Thursday so it must be time to transfer from the hotel to Oceana. We already knew that the transfer was to be at 11 o’clock, and we were in the hotel lobby checking out before 10:30. We found a P&O rep who was organising the collection of luggage, and who also gave each of […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 20th, 2018
Today was our full day in Valletta. We didn’t really have a plan for the day, we just decided to explore. We learned that the hotel runs a free shuttle up into Valletta at 10 o’clock, and back at 6pm so we decided to take advantage of the shuttle into town, at least. So by […]
Posted in 2018 Cruises, Oceana, Oceana 2018, P&O on Sep 19th, 2018
Val has insisted that I should post this comparison of two ships (I use the term loosely) that we saw in Valletta harbour this afternoon…..