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Xmas 2019 Canaries Cruise - Dates |
Off for a cruise on this lovely Fred Olsen ship. The MV Balmoral, photoed at
Santa Cruz de La Palma,
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Sometimes, Fred's give frequent floaters a perk. This time, it was a car collecting us from home & taking us to Southampton to the ship. No car turned up but rining the agency brought one within 28 minutes of the correct time & he got us to the wrong berth, as specified, in 2 hours, very good. We did find the right berth, obvious as Balmoral was there alongside. Even with the problems, this beat taking our bags down to Waterloo. |
The trip took us from Southampton to Tenerife & back to Southampton |
Leaving Southampton on a really nice day but...
Sunday 22nd December 2019 - Boarding
Something obviously went wrong if Ken took a photo of Southampton in the
Sun in Winter. We could have expected to sail after Lifeboat Drill in
the late afternoon. However, this Winter, the weather has been terrible
& so it was forecast for Sunday night in the Channel. On such
matters, the Driver's Word is Law & he was not going to sail until
Monday morning at about 10:30. This meant we were going to miss
Casablanca (& we had had a tour booked to Rabat, as, when you have
seen the new & not very well built mosque, the rest of Casablanca is
a dump). Later, we heard that a P&O ship did sail into the night &
had a really bad time.
This doomed us to 5 days at Sea before making landfall in Tenerife.
Elliott Taylor was Cruise Director until Tenerife, standing in for Alan,
we think. He flew home from there & handed over to Marina.