We arrived in port early in the morning. This is the view of Table Mountain from our cabin this morning, and it is clear and sunny. We leave the ship tomorrow morning, so decide, as it is clear, today is the day to go to the top. We have a leisurely breakfast and pack before […]

It’s a big day today in several ways. Its wash day and the cabin washer woman has found the laundry and commandeered two machines. We now have to wait 40 mins to swap the wet items into the drier. I took the precaution of sending my shirts to the ships laundry, and they have arrived […]

We get up early again today, at 7 am, ready for breakfast before our trip ashore. At 7:30, we bowled down to the dining room to discover the restaurant was empty. This is when we checked the programme and found it does not open until 8 am. So we set off back up 5 floors […]

An alarm is required today as we have to attend South African immigration before breakfast at 8am. This will speed things up for us tomorrow before we go on a port visit trip, and also when we leave the ship at Cape Town. A lot of people are leaving the ship on trips today, but […]

It is strange how it happens, but although we have no need to get up, we wake at 8am. In view of this, we continue our calorie loading with a full breakfast in the dining room. The choice then is either to go on a long walk in circles on the deck or go to […]

The alam awoke us, so we were ready to attend a talk on Cape Town. We had no time for breakfast, but after yesterday’s mutiple meals, it will not be missed. We must have worked up an apatite sitting in the theatre because we went straight to the coffee and pastries lounge before heading for […]

We slept in this morning and consequently missed breakfast in all the venues. The benefit is that we found another venue that serves coffee and pastries until midday. Following this very pleasant find, and having refuelled ourselves, we head for the ballroom for the Cha Cha Cha dance class.  We endure another painful but funny […]

We have arrived in Wavis Bay (or Whale Bay) Namibia, just in front of another cruise ship. We have arranged a trip ashore and need to be at immigration with pre completed forms and passports at 8am. To avoid any crushes in the restaurant when it opens at 7am, we have decided to try continental […]

The clocks changed again last night, but our phones do not follow ships’ time. The result is that our alarm does not go off at the correct time, so we had a rush to get to the first presentation, which was about Cape Town. Although we will not be going on the ships’ organised excursions, […]

We are up just in time to make breakfast in the main restaurant this morning. The waiters are not overly happy with two late arrivals, so they set the table around us just to make the point. After breakfast, we go on a 1.3 mile quick walk around the promenade deck. We saw the first immovable […]