Ashton-in-Makerfield
2016年4月19日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Start of our longest trip ever, in distance that is.
Fly to Dubai, then on to Sydney to pick up the Explorer ots, and sail to Seattle.
Dubai
2016年4月20日, アラブ首長国連邦 ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
We broke the journey to Sydney up with a 24 hour stop over in Dubai, and stayed in Maz & Sue's apartment.
We didn't do a lot as it was just to break up the long flight to Sydney, but still aもっと詳しく
Sydney
2016年4月23日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Well the journey to Sydney was not as bad as I expected.
It was helped by a stop over in Dubai at Maz and Sue's apartment.
The second leg was a 14 hour flight, but was ok especially with theもっと詳しく
Noumea
2016年4月26日, ニューカレドニア ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Not very impressed with the first port of call, which was Nouméa, New Caledonia.
It is a French colony and by all the things I'd been told and read, it was supposed to be like the south of France.もっと詳しく
Mystery Island, vanuatu
2016年4月27日, バヌアツ ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
Well I was going to get off the ship today and have a look at Mystery Island.I thought I'd do the sensible thing and wait till the hoards of excited beach people got off.As on other ships they run aもっと詳しく
Port Vila, Vanuatu
2016年4月27日, バヌアツ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We all got off for a look around Port Villa ,Vanuatu, we took one of the minibus type taxis from the port to the town, and that in itself was quite an experience.
These must be amongst the worstもっと詳しく
At Sea
2016年4月30日, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We had only left Port Vila, Vanuatu a couple of hours, when they had an earthquake, 7.2 on the Richter scale.It turns out that it was 22 miles underground, it's the tectonic plates moving that causesもっと詳しく
Suva, Fiji
2016年4月30日, フィジー ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Today we docked for an overnight stay in Suva, the capital of the beautiful island of Fiji.As the others weren't to keen on exploring the place, I decided to head out on my own.I took the main roadもっと詳しく
Suva, Fiji
2016年5月1日, フィジー ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
Apparently three crew members where mugged last night; the stories vary from right by the ship, to in the town.
Some reports say one crew member was bitten, others say at knife point.
Problem isもっと詳しく
Sea Day, Am I expecting to much
2016年5月3日, South Pacific Ocean
As it is, all anyone seems interested in is getting the ship ready for the American immigration inspection when we get to Hawaii.
The level of officer visibility is nil.
And to be honest most of usもっと詳しく
Sea Day Monday, Monday
2016年5月4日, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
Today is the first of two consecutive Monday 2nd of May's, as later on tonight we cross the international dateline.
I've never done this before, as all my cruising has been done in the westernもっと詳しく
Sea Day, Progressive, Agressive Quiz
2016年5月4日, South Pacific Ocean
We finally started the first round of the progressive quiz, and as usual it very quickly became the aggressive quiz.
One of the questions believe it or not was in what English county is the town ofもっと詳しく
Sea Day, It's Homeland Security Sir!
2016年5月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Today we dock in Honolulu, Hawaii.
This is the first American port since leaving Sydney, Australia, and everybody is expecting the usual USA immigration hold up.
The immigration procedure isもっと詳しく
Honolulu, Hawaii
2016年5月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Well all the panic about long lines for the immigration check proved to be as expected, with the line snaking up and back down the royal promenade.
We arrived very early and were right at the front ofもっと詳しく
Lahaina Hawaii
2016年5月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Today we anchored off the small town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
It is a tender port, and so once again they give out tickets for the tenders.
I normally like to wait until the openもっと詳しく
Lahaina, Hawaii, Continued
2016年5月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
As I said earlier, we had all decided to go ashore today, and I'm very glad that we did.
We got in the tender at about 9.30am after a very short wait in line.
The ride over to the pier was smooth andもっと詳しく
Seattle
2016年5月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
At the airport, and about seven hours to wait for our flight, thank god for the Delta lounge.
Ashton in Makerfield, Allways the way.
2016年5月17日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
After flying thousands of miles from Manchester, to Dubai, on to Sydney, then Seattle to London, without any turbulence, we get thrown all over the place on the short hop from London toもっと詳しく






























