Family love and celebration

   As days continue to pass by, amazingly it is now just a week until Lisa and I are due to fly to Spain to begin our new life in our home in the Mediterranean sunshine. Right now, we are in the United States of America halfway through a holiday in Lisa’s home country. Saturday …

Calmer weather is good news for all

With better weather and much more settled sea conditions since reaching the western Atlantic, certain entertainments that had to be postponed have now all caught up, much to the delight of Anthem of the Seas cruise director Luke Aerosmith. His smile has changed from the fixed one he sported through the bad weather to a …

Day of celebration for Halloween and anniversary

Day 6, November 1st. Awoke this morning to find Anthem of the Seas has left low pressure, high pressure and hurricane force winds behind and moved into calmer seas and, wow, we saw the sun. Just after lunch, ship’s time, we were really close to where the Titanic sank. It was strange to think of …

Not all ‘progress’ is an improvement

Has the golden age of cruising gone forever? Undoubtedly, the answer has to be in the affirmative if you hanker after the grandeur for which the liners of years gone by were noted. Being aboard the world’s newest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas, you cannot help but acknowledge that it is a …

Rough seas don’t phase restaurant and cooking teams

Day 4 of our transatlantic crossing aboard Anthem of the Seas. Sea conditions are now the roughest of the entire trip, according to our captain’s reading of the weather forecasts. Our speed has been reduced to minimise the side to side rolling motion and the course has been changed slightly for the same reason. Talking …

Rock and roll in theatre as ship does its own dance

Day two of Transatlantic crossing aboard Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas, Weather is not so good today, winds got up to force nine on the Beaufort scale with the sea level varying by six metres causing the ship to perform its own dance as pitches and rolls - but it really is not too …

Crossing the Atlantic on world’s newest cruise ship

Wow, our first full day at sea, on board Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas en route from the UK to USA. Launched earlier this year, Anthem is the newest and third largest cruise ship in the world It has been a hectic couple of days, even more so for my wife Lisa, as on Monday we …

Two days to go until we head for better weather

Dateline: 24th October 2015.  It’s a cold, wet and quite miserable Saturday in what passes for autumn in North Wales; actually, not only here but across the UK generally the weather outlook is no better, In fact, yesterday a storm warning was in place for this weekend and into next week and, although nothing at all …

Just two weeks until our next step

While the timer on the right of this page is counting down the days until my beloved wife Lisa and I arrive in our new home in southern Spain, there is an important milestone date coming up before that. In just two weeks, on Monday 26th October, we actually move out of our Colwyn Bay …

Dream the impossible dream…..but sometimes our dreams do come true

Left: The beautiful Na Pali coast, Hawaii in December. Right, reindeer in Norway, in July. Dream the impossible dream? Ok, ok, what’s he rambling on about now? To tell you the truth, my dreams only really started to come true after I met Lisa. Let me explain. I first married in 1977. It was on …