April 30th 2016, Day 14 – Debarkation in Southampton. The saddest day of every cruise is upon us and we have to bid farewell to the most wonderful ship the Celebrity Eclipse. The Solstice class ship the Eclipse has been a gem to cruise on. As you may have seen from the photos that I’ve […]
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RSS feed for this sectionCelebrity Eclipse Cruise Review – Continued, Day 13 Le Havre
April 29th 2016, Day 13 – Le Havre We arrived in Le Havre on a wet and miserable looking morning. That would be about right, heading closer to the UK and the pretty average weather we often have. Anyway, never mind, let’s make the most of it. After watching us cruise into port and […]
Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review – Continued. Sea Day 9 & 10 Arriving in Lisbon
Continuing along with my Celebrity Eclipse cruise review – Sea Day 9 & day 10 arriving in Lisbon April 25th 2016, Day 9 – At Sea. Todays activities listed in the Celebrity paper. Each day it mentions the sunrise and sunset along with the dress code for the evening. After our usual breakfast and […]
Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review – Continued. Sea Days 7 & 8
April 23rd 2016, Day 7 – At Sea. Well this is the morning of day 7 so we should be just over half way to Southampton and the map on the Navigation channel shows us where we are. That little red triangle in a circle is us… What shall we do today? […]
Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review – Continued
April 18th 2016, Day 2 – Destination Nassau. We were the first ship in Nassau at 7am which was pleasant, especially knowing that this place can get overrun with tourists. Anyway we had a planned to go out with Mickey & Jelena for today and see a special part of Nassau, of which I will […]
Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review – 13 Night Transatlantic Crossing
The day is here and we are about to embark on another adventure. This time we are going to cross the Atlantic on the Celebrity Eclipse, a 13 night cruise leaving Miami. We will be visiting Nassau in the Bahamas then Kings Wharf in Bermuda, after that we have 6 days at sea before […]
Hostal El Hangar Near The International Airport Medellin
We decided to stay at Hostal El Hangar which is possibly the closest accommodation to the Medellin International airport. Normally we would have stayed in the apartment in Envigado where we live when here, and would have got up in the middle of the night and taken a taxi to the airport to get […]
The Moment When The Customs Officer Tells You You’ve Overstayed
I’m writing this while sat in the luxury of our hotel room in Miami, (thanks for the upgrade, more on that later). However, in a blink of an eye this could have been a totally different scenario… We spent the night in Hostal El Hangar in Rionegro which is just 3 minutes by shuttle to […]
Celebrity Eclipse Transatlantic Crossing, Here We Come
Cruise #2 for 2016 departs from Miami on the 17th of April. This cruise will take us from Miami to Southampton, then we’ll hop on a plane to Alicante where we have our next base for three months. Farewell Medellin Our next adventure is just about to start as we bid farewell to Medellin, Colombia. […]
Our Camino de Santiago – The Way of St James – Camino Frances, the French Way
Here you can find the day by day photo log from “Our Camino” in sequence as we document our way from Saint Jean Pied de Port to Santiago and then onto Finisterre. Please note that all distances and above sea level amounts are gathered from books & websites, I have not measured the information myself […]
