Izzywiz

My last Gs are the gyms. My husband uses the gym on the ships most days. Some people are gluttons for punishment!!!

 Royal Princess

Arcadia

MV Regency Nile Cruise

Splendour of the Seas

and G is for...

Grand children arriving at Marella Discovery 2 for their first cruise

and games including golf on Discovery 2

Grand Princess

as well as other games...

Adonia

MSC Armonia

Diamond Princess. Our travel scrabble goes everywhere with us and we play a holiday long league table. We are playing daily during 'lockdown' and will play our 193rd game today!

MV Regency, Nile cruise

Royal Princess,

G is for gambling. I used to like a few $$$ on the machines when I was younger but have learned the error of my ways now!

Costa Luminosa

Legend of the Seas

Norwegian Sun 

Splendour of the Seas

Sun Princess

Great Gs....hahaha

G s for

Grand Princess

Inside cabin this time..

Gelato on MSC Armonia

and, scarily, the machine gun that appeared on deck along with a soldier as we got to Dandara on the Nile cruise

My last Fs are formal night pictures through the years starting with one taken on Carnival Sensation in 2000....we do look young!!

My hair gets greyer, my figure gets fuller and the mobility aid appears but my dear husband hardly changes apart from a few more wrinkles 

F is also for freezing and frozen

We were freezing on

Oriana in Northern Norway

..... on Boudicca in Greenland

.....on Star Princess sailing through the Chilean Fjords

and sitting on the aft deck of Splendour of the Seas as we sailed along the Suez canal in December

I love my non-alcoholic frozen cocktails too...

Favourite foods...

This jar of mint sauce was produced by the Maître D on Celebrity Constellation after we explained that the 'day-glow' mint jelly beloved by our US friends and the extremely watery  mint sauce preferred by our Australian friends were poor substitutes for the 'real' thing when having the lamb shanks. Apparently, he raided the crew stores to find it. We wrote a lovely commendation for him!!!!!

Surprisingly, we loved the food on MSC Armonia as we had been given dire warnings about the quality

Flags, flowers and a folding funnel

Adonia

Diamond Princess

Splendour of the Seas

Diamond Princess

The funnel on Norwegian Dream folded to one side and slid down the stack. this enabled the ship to traverse the Kiel Canal because it could fit under the bridges...

F is for our feathered friends

These all hitched a ride on Boudicca

Chaffinch

 Sadly this poor Chiffchaff had a broken leg

House Sparrow.

Robin

and a Frigate bird doing a fly past

Wow Purdy, there is still a lot of romance in your marriage. I’ve just shown your post to my DH and he told me not to get ideas above my station.....hahaha!!!😆😉

They all look lovely though.

Isabel

This thread is proving to be just as entertaining as the other 2 although I have really had to search hard for suitable posts. it is so nice to see pictures of the posters and like Indiana, I also have the sort of middle and other bits that don't lend themselves to dresses....hahaha!

Anyway, here are my Es....

My Elite status welcome rose on Celebrity. We have been cruising regularly since 1992 so have built up quite a lot of loyalty points with a variety of cruise lines.

Elite mini-bar sett-up on Emerald Princess

Explorer of the Seas

Evening entertainment on our Mekong cruise on La Marguerite

and lastly, the MV Princess Panhwar ear phones for the radio sets that we used to hear our guides while on shore in Myanmar

Dozing on Arcadia

Dancing on Arcadia and Dancing on ice on Explorer of the Seas

Diamond Princess

and Discovery 2 in the distance

Deck plan on Explorer of the Seas

Disabled cabins on Celebrity Millennium and Discovery 2

Drinks at the bar and a dragonfly that hitched a lift on Discovery 2

Lots of lovely Ds already so here are mine....

Dining venues

Celebrity Infinity

Explorer of the Seas

Celebrity Millennium

Norwegian Pearl

and Dawn at sea

It was just lucky that I happened to be sitting by the window facing upstream and had noticed the cargo ship. These ships are fascinating because they carry such a variety of goods and people so I was trying to see what its cargo actually was. It was then that I noticed that the ship appeared to be overtaking us but wasn’t actually moving in a parallel line. It came towards us very quickly and I reacted as anyone else would have done so no heroics!

These ships are like landing craft and have a metal plate at the front that can be lowered onto the river bank. There is a thick metal pole that extends out at each side of the plate and it was the pole that came through the window. 
Our captain told us that he believed the cargo ship captain had fallen asleep at the wheel.

Thank you for your comments.

It all happened so quickly that people did leave their wine and, of course, everywhere was covered in glass shards so what was left wasn’t drinkable. Fortunately, the ship was AI so there was more wine available although several people had a stiff brandy instead!!

I have to say that everyone involved acted extremely well. There was no panic, the crew members in the restaurant reacted very quickly to reassure everyone and nobody made a big fuss. There were no demands for compensation and everyone was determined to enjoy the last days of an absolutely fabulous cruise. 

The ship, which was owned by Australian Pacific Touring (APT), was brand new and only on its 3rd sailing. One of the APT directors flew straight out to Mandalay to oversee the repairs and he made sure that the passengers had a great last day. I would do the whole cruise again in a heartbeat.....it was stunning.

C is for CRASH!!

We were having lunch on board the Princess Panhwar river cruise ship as we sailed along the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar when I noticed one of the local cargo boats was getting closer to to the ship. As I watched I could see that it was heading directly towards us so I shouted a warning and all the diners by the windows managed to scramble away just before we were hit! Fortunately, no one was badly hurt although one lady got cut by flying glass.

The captain pulled alongside the river bank where there was a river police booth and the next thing we saw was our captain and several officers in a small boat chasing the cargo boat. The cargo boat captain was arrested and led away in handcuffs.

As it was the last full day of our cruise, we were able to stay on board while repairs were being made in Mandalay but the people who should have boarded for the next cruise were put up in a hotel until the ship was ready.

It was quite scary at the time!!!

Celebrity Concierge class canapes (lots of Cs there!)

Crossing the Equator

Explorer of the Seas

and Boudicca

We spent almost a whole day sailing west along the Equator from Papua New Guinea to Komodo Island which is so unusual that we were given a 'special' certificate

You all must be the most creative people on the planet! I am frantically searching for appropriate pictures so here are my Cs....

meeting a celebrity on Arcadia...the late , great Jackie Charlton

Having a nasty cold on Arcadia

Boudicca's cafe. I will really miss Boudicca as we did some fantastically unusual itineraries on her

B is for 

Boudicca in Greenland

Boudicca's buffet

My birthday on Sun Princess

and the bridge on Boudicca

and A as for Aft balcony cabins...

on Arcadia in Norway

Norwegian Pearl in Alaska

and on Star Princess through the Chilean Fjords

A is also for the Aft deck views.....

Boudicca, Greenland and Iceland

Wow....already so many creative posts. I hope to catch up eventually but hope you don't mind me going back to A..

.Arcadia

in Flam

and after a long day sightseeing

A is for afternoon tea on our MV Regency Nile Cruise

and the atrium on Diamond Princess

Hi Damian and all posters, I don’t take a lot of pictures on board so this is quite a challenge but I’ll do my best. We have a few pictures of birds that have hitched a lift but not many. I’ll get Jim working on it.

izzywiz

My very last Zs are from our overnight stay at a Zulu village in South Africa which we did as part of a pre-cruise tour...

Thank you Damian and everyone for a brilliant thread

Isabel

Zanzibar