rakkor

I am liking the new world of Cunard Internet - my Zoom call yesterday went without a hitch and blog posting has been seamless - It slowed a little at bed time last night when, I assume, everyone was checking their phones

Today's Daily Programme has been uploaded (LINK) to my blog. I was going to make them all inserts into the page, but I reckon once the page is populated it will be very slow to load, so I've made it so only the current Daily Programme is an insert, all others are links @aday10 It took me a while to figure out how to capture the files so I never got around to doing that one - I'll photograph it, the quality wont be great though

I've just uploaded day 2's musings to https://blog.rakkor.uk

The Daily Programme is made up of 6 pages in the pdf viewer and It was a matter of right clicking on each page and saving as a png - you have to save all six - then it's just a matter of using an online png2pdf converter - a bit of a faff, but it works and it means I can upload each day easily - I tried to scan at home when they first changed format and my scanner doesn't like the skinny format

I finally figured out how to make a pdf of the Daily Program, so I shall be posting them on my blog - for this cruise they can be found HERE in my Blog Thanks to @rafinmd @Pushpit & @D&N for the inspiration

It's a wee bit squally at the moment, but mainly flat calm seas and a lovely sunny evening, here's the view from the Commodore Club

If I thought I could get away with it, I buy one In a heartbeat, but Jane would only roll her eyes at me if I did

We've really got a move on overnight, the Navigation screen on the TV is showing us somewhere south of the Bay of Bengal - A quick look out of the balcony shows that it isn't the case, it's a bit chilly and murky off the French coast at Brest.

I shall post about our current QV cruise here. It was nice to get back on board and head off to what is hopefully a nice warm Mediterranean cruise out to the Greek Islands and back - Embarkations today was uneventful unlike Roy's biblical QM2 exploits. We were through security and on board in less than an hour, all very boring. I'll also be updating my blog (hopefully daily) which can be found at https://blog.rakkor.uk

It's really weird, I'm sure on our recent "booze cruise" I had a download icon in the pdf viewer for the Daily Programme, and downloaded one of the pdf's to my laptop. Today, for the life of me, I cannot see how to do it and I've searched for the pdf on my laptop and can't find that anywhere. I'm either losing the plot or I've dreamt it all! I've noticed I can grab the image for each page - 6 in total, but that seems like a proper faff to do - Anyway Roy's portable scanner doesn't sound very "old school" to me, just wish I had one to hand.

Hi Roy - How did you download the Daily Program PDF ? I've just looked at myvoyage on QV and can't see the option on any of my devices to download, even though I managed to download one on our last cruise only the other week also on QV?

Glad to see you made it onboard OK Roy, I'm looking forward to following your adventure.

That brochure is from 2020, when we booked the package for our upcoming Greek Islands cruise, I asked for an updated version and that's the version that I was sent. So, be aware it's only an indication of the quality of the wine included and not the actual wines themselves. Last September's wine package on QE differed considerably from those shown.

They are currently on Victoria, or were last week - we saw them on Elizabeth last September.

Jane found a small bottle waiting for us in Southampton last week, so not the only one in the Western Hemisphere I'd expect, although it did vanish so you may be correct!

Cunard - Sailings of 6 days or less $50. 7-13 days $100. 14 days or longer $250 I was very pleased to get $50 on our recent short (4 day) cruise, I'd assumed we didn't get anything

Disembarkation day (day 5) posted https://blog.rakkor.uk and the posts re-ordered so they read better

Maybe you can join us for the Greek Islands cruise as well - Just over a week to go for that one!

As @Victoria2 says Bruges is an excellent Christmas port of call. the last time we were there we shared one of the many cabs available in the port into the centre. Although I'd differ with her on Gluhwine and Croque Monsieur for a nice Trappist Dubbel or Trippel and Moules frites. Rotterdam is nowhere near a pretty but friends reckon the new Market is a sight to behold.

On our QV shortie, I was pleasantly surprised to see near total compliance, on our only Gala night in the Britannia MDR, with the only noticeable deviation a chap in a light coloured suit, it being a "party cruise" I had fully expected it to be a horror show.

We are nearly home after departing Victoria this morning and need to check in for this cruise, I'm hopeful there will be some excursions left.

No one mentioned it, that we were aware of. We were tucked up in bed nice and early though

The final day of our voyage has now been published http://blog.rakkor.uk

There is certainly a free shuttle to Retauradores Square, I too will be blogging our visit there In October

32mbs in the QV Commodore Club (Premium Internet) just now and I had a very successful Zoom meeting with work today until the heavens opened and the internet got a bit sketchy