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Maybe Steve could start a new career 😂😂👍🏻

We never travel to airports or ship ports on the day, always the day before just in case, but we do live in Devon so 3-4 hour trip to get to Heathrow etc

We have a friend who went on Hurtigruten and she loved it, more like a sort of ferry people get on and off at different places, but they go to places normal cruise ships don’t

We did have a lovely time, and I did drink to many martinis lol x

Thank you Irene we always look forward to your comments We have dreadful problems with pronouncing names of places sometimes. A lot of it is done when we get home and can look up everything and then Steve talks over the film, he actually has a dreadful memory much like myself, think it’s an age thing 😂😂

😂😂😂thank you, I don’t really know what I’m doing, Steve just tells me which buttons to push xxx

Thank you, We very nearly bought a troll doll lol, but then we thought where are we going to put it so stopped ourselves. We love Norway cruises even in the rain, the scenery is so lovely, as long as you take rain wear not too much of a problem x

Thank you so much

Oh so happy you had a lovely time, love the fact there’s lots of quiet places to sit, our friends who we are going with said the talks were good. Happy to hear the entertainment sounds good, and as for afternoon tea, yes please. I agree 30 degrees is a little hot, won’t have that trouble in January in Hamburg 🥶 😂😂

No, I was doing my favourite thing, found a lovely place to read my book, I love it when everyone gets off the ship and you more or less have the ship to yourself. I just can’t walk the distances that Steve does, we’re both happy this way

@soditwereretired that's nice. I love relaxing days. I'm on my cruise this Tuesday out of Southampton Cunard Queen Victoria. No plans as such just take it easy.

Where are you going to?

@@soditwereretired Lisbon, Madeira, Canary Islands. I've been to most of the places on previous cruises but never sailed Cunard. With my in laws who aren't so keen on flying so will be interesting to sail out of Southampton. Usually I'm sailing into Southampton from my home on Isle of Wight.

All lovely places, we are doing our first Cunard on Queen Anne in January, a 4 night cruise to Hamburg sailing with some friends, so we’d love to hear how you get on, on Cunard x

That particular one you can’t as far as we know, but there other places you can, Puerto Madryn you can and we have a video on that called, From city to colony Discovering Puerto Madryn Hope this helps

Thank you

That you so much that’s very kind of you x

Thanks 🤗

Thank you Jonathan I aim to please 😂😂😂xx

Thank you Gwen xx

Thank you so much

He wouldn’t dare Gwen, 😂😂 I always make sure he’s back on board in plenty of time, otherwise there would be a divorce 😂😂👍🏻x

No we didn’t go to the Canning museum, I’d probably be a bit like you and think it wasn’t our cup of tea, but just shows you that you should try everything. We didn’t go to any other restaurants, as we thought we’d paid enough for The Retreat so were going to make the most of it lol Yes Irene I do have a cruise wardrobe that comes out every time I cruise 😂😂xx

Please let us know how you get on with Queen Anne as we’re doing our first Cunard on that ship in January, just a 4 night cruise to Hamburg

Thank you so much that’s very kind of you I think Steve is planning to do a video on how we shoot video etc

Thank you for your comments We use ABParking at Southampton, costs about £95 but well worth it, car is locked in a compound with all other cruisers vehicles, right next to the ship, you get out your car and leave you luggage by your vehicle, you see it again later on in your cabin. Hope this helps

Hi Geoff, We love your music. We regularly get comments about how beautiful the music is. A few years back we were in Iceland and the constant light nights then were surreal

@@soditwereretired Thanks, Steve - much appreciated. I think there's a good chance your channel will really take off - you've got great content. Look forward to your future adventures.

Thank you, appreciated

Much better by boat, it was a little chilly but not too bad x

Thank you

Thank you, yes do go if you ever get the chance the scenery is just stunning

😂😂we’re all different, this did make us laugh though xx

We’re off on the Queen Anne in January, just a 4 night cruise to Hamburg, just to get a taste of Cunard to see if we would like taking further cruises x

I’m sure you’ll have a great time. It will be interesting to see how you feel they compare. We’re a bit higher up the echelons in Cunard than Celebrity, think we get 10 per cent off laundry now!!! lol 🤣

Yes we’re going with friends who’ve cruised Cunard before, it will be interesting x

@@soditwereretired Queen Anne is not liked by a lot of Cunarders. So be prepared for that. It breaks a lot of design/feel tradition from sister ships.

I have a philosophical issue with the Retreat on Apex. I don't like the idea of it taking up prime real estate on this ship. I go back to the Horizon class of Celebrity and Century class. And any of the other classes that forward observation lounge was very valuable for how my wife and I spent time onboard ships. At any rate, it's gone for a specialty restaurant? Nope, don't like that. So, I agree with your point. I don't get a ship feel on this vessel. It's something different. Maybe great for singles and groups as it has a lot of group acitivities. Eden and the Grand Plaza are similar but Eden at least is its own area. The Grand Plaza is noisy and I don't know why anyone would want to spend extra money on the steakhouse or Le Bistro and other specialty dining areas to hear so much noise from the Martini Bar and lobbyish area spilling into their dining experience. The Club seems small for some of what it does. It's fine as a dance club and for some games. But doesn't have any of the ambiance of the Solstice's Sky Lounge. And there's nothing like the Ensemble Lounge on this ship. My favorite Celebrity ships were the Century, Galaxy and Mercury. Sisters that weren't identical and had an aft lounge for more music/entertainment possibilities along with the Rendezvous lounge and an excellent observation lounge. They had Michael's pub open to everyone. They didn't have specialty restaurants and didn't need them because the MDR food was superb (when they were in their first few years of service). The Celebrity style was different. Very grown up and pretty quiet. Now it's more "rah rah."

They are huge, like a floating city x

We’ve never been on Cunard but do have a short 4 night cruise booked in January on the new Queen Anne to get a taster of Cunard

This house was particularly dark and I wouldn’t want to live there, so we agree with you. If ever you do see us, please don’t hesitate to say hello, we’d love it x

The 80s! Childhood! Who am I kidding, I’m a 50s child!!😂

😂😂😂😂exactly the same for us x

It sounds fantastic, where abouts are you?

Farnham in Surrey…….good for sailing from Southampton!! 😁

Ahh lovely part of the world, before Devon we lived in Lightwater Surrey x

Happy you like it

Hope you have a really lovely time x

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did

Thank you 👍🏻

Yes we’ve been to Norway and the vlogs should start coming out in the middle of October. We went to Greenway a few weeks ago and the weather was lovely. I love loads of things in NT shops That sounds a lovely idea hanging little things on branches, that’s definitely my cup of tea xx

We’re going back to Florida next year, we have vlogs coming out in October of our cruise to Norway

Thank you so much that’s very kind of you

Good 😂😂😂😂

I think the family were quite ordinary and down to earth, one of our favourite NT places, worth a visit if you’re ever in the area

@@soditwereretired Sadly, a visit will not be possible, we retired to Germany some 15 years ago.

That sounds lovely, where to? Have you relatives there or just like the country?

@@soditwereretired No, we do not have any relatives in Germany, our two daughters both live in Melbourne, Australia, but we have holidayed in Germany since the 1990’s and enjoyed the life style and standard of living so when we were both made redundant we up sticks and left England. We explored all over but finally settled in a tiny village 2,000 feet above sea level just outside the ski resort of Willingen.

Wow, that’s amazing, to just up sticks and go, we googled where you live it looks beautiful, bet you get lots of snow in ski season xxx

We always say the same, if the trees weren’t there or as tall the views would be spectacular, and as you said probably weren’t when Agatha was there. We do get good weather down here, haven’t seen snow in the six years we’ve lived here, the odd frosty morning but usually gone by 10am. We do get quite a bit of rain though, but usually a bit warmer down here

It’s our favourite NT place, really lovely there, put it on your list to visit

Yeah that would be sodding! nice wouldn’t it 😂😂