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Sorry Mr Bond. You'll just have to seiile for stirred.😉

Just now on 2SM, today's "shock jock" has gone hysterical on Coral. I would like to listen to responses to see if anyone from cruise industry will call to refute everything he has said (as it was almost all wrong) but I have to leave home now for an appointment with a TA.

Bugger, Haven't been to Harry's for some time now. Last night I had a great dinner at Sesame's, Belmont. No pies but the Pork Belly was excellent (although I asked for the brocolli to be substituted with green beans). Went there with my late wife's BF who is now my travelling companion. It was the fourth anniversary of my wife's passing. Our families holidayed together many times over the last 50 years.

Yep, freezing is what it feels like esprcially with the high wind chill factor where I am. Going through the LPG bottles like there's no tomorrow.

The way it was reported didn't sound like a beat-up. Sounded more like matter-of-fact to me. I've heard worse reports of Noro outbreaks.

You're quite right. I'd rather be north of Brisbane than where I am right now. Sounds balmy up there.

IIRC code orange on Coral was mentioned - whatever that means.

It was the same on 7 news at 4. 100 positives, 4 passengers only.

Dreaming???😴

Not sure but Coral was mentioned and I heard cancelled. I was still in bed with TV on and only half awake at the time.

If you call at Picton there is a steam train excursion from there to Blenhein return.

Did I hear right on this mornings news? Coral has now cancelled?

Both HAL and Celebrity do one way to or from Sydney. These are my two prefered lines.

Whether cruising in the tropics or in Alaska my wife and I always found MDR AC too cool.

I can recommend the Five Glaciers Float plane to Taku Lodge for a salmon bake. IIRC they use 10 seater Sea Otter planes with a running comentary. It's pricey but worth it for ticking off the bucket list. BTW, the lodge is only accessable by float plane. We could not book this excursion privately as the cruise ships book out all the planes when in port. Fortunately the cruise company price mark-up is not outrageous as on other tours.

It was a post to "Which Cruise Port in Sydney". I had included two links; one to a hotel website and the other to a Sydney train time/distance/cost calculator. I reposted without the links and it went through ok, but my original post is still there in the thread but hidden ???

I can recommend the CKS Hotel at Wolli Creek. It's about five minutes from the airport (about a mile), in the same street as the Novotel, and they run a shuttle to/from the airport. It's about a 10 minute walk to Wolli Creek station from where you can take the train into the city to Circular Quay (17 minutes). It's on the same line as the airport station. I've used it many times (lost count) to stay the night before flying out of Sydney (mostly international), and found it cheaper than others in the area.

I just posted a reply on a different thread and it's not showing. Seems it's "hidden". How would that happen?

I can recommend the CKS Hotel at Wolli Creek. It's about five minutes from the airport (about a mile), in the same street as the Novotel, and they run a shuttle to/from the airport. It's about a 10 minute walk to Wolli Creek station from where you can take the train into the city to Circular Quay (17 minutes). It's on the same line as the airport station. I've used it many times (lost count) to stay the night before flying out of Sydney (mostly international), and found it cheaper than others in the area. CKS Sydney Airport Hotel (book-directonline.com) Train Wolli Creek to Circular Quay ferry wharf from $4 | Tickets & Timetables | Rome2rio

The way infections are rising, will they have enough quarantine cabins? Keep the masks on.

There's an interesting old building behind the "castle" where all the poop went into tanks. The methane from it was then piped back to the castle for gas lighting IIRC.

My first couple of years after retirement I'd be drinking my morning coffee on the back deck wondering if there was somewhere else I was supposed to be. Every day is a bit like Sunday. I know its Sunday because I get the Sunday paper delivered and I know it's Saturday because thye Newcastle Herald is on my driveway = weekend alert.

I worked in a bank for thirty years and on two occasions after I retired I went to my local branch on a Monday to find it closed - Bank Holiday. Doh! 🙄. I don't go to banks anymore but will have to soon as I have a lot of cash to deposit from selling a couple of bikes OR, I suppose, can do it at my local Post Office, do they still handle cash?

I was on HAL Volendam when it had a power failure somewhere between Darwin and Singapore. IIRC there was a problem with one or more of its generators. We drifted about on a dead calm sea for a couple of hours until it got going again. All power was shut down except emergency supply to the bridge and the casino!!