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Davywavey70, your photos and commentary are worthy of the best travel blog!

I've noticed some of your comments over the past few months and just took the time to look through a number of them again. If I am correct your first cruise on Silversea is booked for October later this year? With sincere respect I would carefully look at whether you really want to do it. I think that it is going to be very hard for you to enjoy it. As you are pleased with Oceania and Viking I would certainly consider those very good lines. Of course, a factor is whether you can get a refund still. Of course, just my humble opinion.

I did that train trip many years ago (when Adam was a boy). It is amazing. I guess Mysty has told you that Adelaide, another of your stops I think, is her favourite city in the world? See if you can find a property for her as we need her here!

Davey, the last pic is I think of a section of the Perth-Kalgoorlie water pipeline, an amazing engineering achievement in its time that keeps the Goldfields area in water today 120 years later. Goldfields Water Supply Scheme - Wikipedia

Do they have a white belt? I didn't notice.

spinnaker2, look out for me on your next cruise. 🙂

Thank goodness a bloody mary with the trimmings is!

You caused me to smirk a bit. Not at your situation which is frustrating and annoying, but because of its familiarity ! Your patience will be needed.

A place for lunch we enjoyed was Cafe Royal, off Princes Street in New Town as you walk down from Holyrood House. If you go for the atmosphere rather than haute cuisine food, you won't be disappointed. But that observation applies to a lot of "pub lunches". The windows are amazing. Cafe Royal Oyster Bar & Restaurant | Edinburgh (caferoyaledinburgh.com)

It's how the world works. Prices go up and down according to demand.

We are booked on Spirit which has an overnight in Monaco during the Grand Prix in 2024. Sadly, we are very likely to cancel. Today we received some details of what is on offer from Silversea to see the race. Prices range from AUD2599 per person for a seat in K grandstand, across the Saturday and Sunday, to a boggling AUD15,149 per person for the works. "The works" includes breakfasts, two Michelin star lunches and unlimited refreshments on the Belvedere Terrace in the pit lane. I'm sure you'll have the same information.

I still have them and they are now non-odorous!

That's 3 more than I took in 2019 and 2023 and, even then, you had to look after one.🤪

As Randyk47 said, it is operational across the fleet. It became operational on Shadow part way through the last World Cruise.

I've had a couple of stays at the IC at JNB, before or after flights, though not for a few years and I reckon the hotel and restaurant are as good as any airport hotel I've been in.

Carr's water biscuits would do me. But the problem is not only the biscuits, it's the cheese as several recent photos have shown. A cheese course has become AWD - anything will do. I suspect that Silversea is not alone here.

I grimace every time I see their cheese selection and presentation these days. Even the crackers are cheap and nasty.

There was a report on a news program here, in Australia, last week that Angkor Wat was not seeing the resumption of tourism post-covid that other destinations were seeing. No real explanation of why was given. The bottom line for you is that, if it is quiet, it will make for a very pleasant visit.

We are all different. Personally, I find it quite straight forward. I just need to know what ship I'm on (I do admit that late in the evening I may have difficulty with that question, but generally I don't). The chart only tells you the likely number of each dress code nights. I was answering the point that "it's not published anywhere as far as I can see" which is patently incorrect.

From the General Information section linked on the front page of the web site : Evening attire falls into three categories: casual, informal and formal. On casual evenings, pants, blouses, skirts and casual dresses for ladies; open-neck shirts and slacks for gentlemen are appropriate. On informal evenings, ladies usually wear dresses or pantsuits; gentlemen wear jackets (tie optional). Appropriate formal evening wear for ladies is an evening gown or cocktail dress; gentlemen wear tuxedos, dinner jackets or dark suits. Tie is required. On formal nights, guests may dine in La Terrazza and choose to dress informal; dresses or pantsuits for ladies, jackets for gentlemen (tie optional). This option also applies to Seishin on board Silver Spirit, Kaiseki on board Silver Muse, Silver Moon and Silver Dawn. Dining at The Grill and Spaccanapoli is optional casual all nights. Following dinner, all guests are free to take advantage of any or all public spaces, however, a jacket is required. Sailings of 9 days or less typically feature 1 formal night, while longer voyages usually have 2-3 formal nights. Details will be provided in your final cruise documents, but the chart below provides a basic guideline to assist in packing the proper attire.

Glad it is sorted! It's certainly stress-inducing. I thought I knew a bit about how airlines operate but it a new one on me to hear of a locator number changing, and being split, at the point the flights were ticketed. My devious mind thinks this may be something to do with money!

It's a long way from the cheese trolley that used to live in La Terrezza. But those were the days of yore. The rest of the meal looks very good.

Get with it! This is 2023! 😉

It's got to the situation in Australia that there is, more often than not, a place on the bill to add a tip. Sometimes the credit card machine asks you if you'd like to add one. Thus the pressure is on to the customer. This largely comes from non-Australians not respecting our tip culture, as you say.

It will be a splendid cruise. I'm also looking forward to your hotel reports.