A Silver Shadow Over The World - December 2023 to May 2024

[mysty]

4 minutes ago, drron29 said:

Maybe lunch on the 17th. We are staying at the IC Jimbaran Bay which is not that far from the port. So maybe at the IC or nearby. but if Jannie is on board for the World cruise we would love to have him along as well. then he could pay for your taxi. Maybe even lunch aboard and we might run into Miss Vicki.

 

Awesome options!  🥰  Let's see what the situation is as we get closer!  Love the thought of spending time with you both! 😁

[jpalbny]

Wow! You will have a great time with Ron and Ann. Very envious that we can't join you. Bali is just a little far for a quick weekend trip!

Edited September 1, 2023 by jpalbny

[mysty]

15 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

Wow! You will have a great time with Ron and Ann. Very envious that we can't join you. Bali is just a little far for a quick weekend trip!

 

We're just thrilled that they want to take a chance on yet-unknown Canadians!  it may be the last time they chance that!  😅

[Host Jazzbeau]

47 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

Wow! You will have a great time with Ron and Ann. Very envious that we can't join you. Bali is just a little far for a quick weekend trip!

Even for you???  😀

[jpalbny]

1 minute ago, Host Jazzbeau said:

Even for you???  😀

 

LOL. Sadly, yes. 20 hours each way plus a 3+h drive to/from JFK on each end would make about 46 hours of travel time. That would barely leave time for lunch!

[Host Jazzbeau]

Just now, jpalbny said:

 

LOL. Sadly, yes. 20 hours each way plus a 3+h drive to/from JFK on each end would make about 46 hours of travel time. That would barely leave time for lunch!

Go back and watch Guys and Dolls – flying (on a prop plane) down to Havana for dinner.  You've got jets!!!

[Stumblefoot]

2 hours ago, mysty said:

 

We're just thrilled that they want to take a chance on yet-unknown Canadians!  it may be the last time they chance that!  😅

Well, you did ask to Hook Up!  Clearly, that phrase means something a wee bit different to my generation than yours and Dr. Ron’s. 😁

[jillyf]

Mysty, I’m very envious of your trip.  I love all your research and I think that is a great way to build up the excitement. 

 

We have just returned from Darwin and Far North Queensland and had a delicious lunch at Ochre in Cairns.

It is a very short walk from the cruise ships terminal and overlooks the harbour.  https://ochrerestaurant.com.au

 I remember you saying you were looking forward to revisiting somewhere you ate last time but we did enjoy this.  No photos as we were catching up with my sister and we were too busy talking!

Asian Bayleaf Balinese had delicious Rijsttafel. We thought it was beautifully presented. We went for dinner so not sure about lunch.

Asian https://www.bayvillage.com.au/bayleaf-balinese-restaurant/

 

Silky Oaks Lodge in the Daintree is open for lunch to non guests. It is a 1hour 30 minute drive along the beautiful coast, through the cane fields and into the hills and rainforest, so an interesting drive for delicious food in rainforest surroundings.  Anyone coming on a land tour would enjoy staying here for a few nights.  It was nominated in Gourmet Traveller tourism awards this year for Destination Dining. 

 

In Darwin we ate at quite a few restaurants but these are the ones we felt were worth a visit.

Hanuman a South East Asian restaurant and enjoyed it. Need to book as very busy with locals and tourists.

https://www.hanuman.com.au/darwin-1

 

Snapper Rocks on the Waterfront, a short walk from the cruise terminal.  We ate there a few times as it was close to our hotel and we enjoyed it.  Most cafes / restaurants on the Waterfront have happy hour and Snapper Rocks has a gin menu.  On the night we did the Street Art and Food tour it finished here.

https://snapper.rocks

 

Darwin Gourmet Street Art and Food Tours.  We did this the night after we arrived and it gave us good insight into the restaurants. https://www.darwingourmettours.com/about-us

The street art is very good.  They are all a short walk from each other and I think there should be a map available.  We had an app on the phone which showed some of the paintings moving.

It’s worth a wander if you have time.

https://activatedarwin.nt.gov.au/local-favourites/guide-darwins-street-art

[mysty]

3 hours ago, jillyf said:

Mysty, I’m very envious of your trip.  I love all your research and I think that is a great way to build up the excitement. 

 

We have just returned from Darwin and Far North Queensland and had a delicious lunch at Ochre in Cairns.

It is a very short walk from the cruise ships terminal and overlooks the harbour.  https://ochrerestaurant.com.au

 I remember you saying you were looking forward to revisiting somewhere you ate last time but we did enjoy this.  No photos as we were catching up with my sister and we were too busy talking!

Asian Bayleaf Balinese had delicious Rijsttafel. We thought it was beautifully presented. We went for dinner so not sure about lunch.

Asian https://www.bayvillage.com.au/bayleaf-balinese-restaurant/

 

Silky Oaks Lodge in the Daintree is open for lunch to non guests. It is a 1hour 30 minute drive along the beautiful coast, through the cane fields and into the hills and rainforest, so an interesting drive for delicious food in rainforest surroundings.  Anyone coming on a land tour would enjoy staying here for a few nights.  It was nominated in Gourmet Traveller tourism awards this year for Destination Dining. 

 

In Darwin we ate at quite a few restaurants but these are the ones we felt were worth a visit.

Hanuman a South East Asian restaurant and enjoyed it. Need to book as very busy with locals and tourists.

https://www.hanuman.com.au/darwin-1

 

Snapper Rocks on the Waterfront, a short walk from the cruise terminal.  We ate there a few times as it was close to our hotel and we enjoyed it.  Most cafes / restaurants on the Waterfront have happy hour and Snapper Rocks has a gin menu.  On the night we did the Street Art and Food tour it finished here.

https://snapper.rocks

 

Darwin Gourmet Street Art and Food Tours.  We did this the night after we arrived and it gave us good insight into the restaurants. https://www.darwingourmettours.com/about-us

The street art is very good.  They are all a short walk from each other and I think there should be a map available.  We had an app on the phone which showed some of the paintings moving.

It’s worth a wander if you have time.

https://activatedarwin.nt.gov.au/local-favourites/guide-darwins-street-art

 

WOW!  Thank you so very much @jillyf !  Those recommendations are very much appreciated!  Thank you for taking the time to share them!  🥰

[mysty]

6 hours ago, Stumblefoot said:

Well, you did ask to Hook Up!  Clearly, that phrase means something a wee bit different to my generation than yours and Dr. Ron’s. 😁

 

Stumble, are you talking pineapples here?  😅 

[mysty]

I am very curious about the guest lecturers who will travel with us on this adventure.  For the 2016 version, the guest lecturers were named on the Silversea website prior to the sailing.  They included:

JON FLEMING - Destination Consultant
Jon Fleming’s combination of personal experience and historical knowledge, plus an entertaining presentation style has made him very sought after in the cruise industry. He has sailed on almost 100 cruises worldwide including complete round-the-world itineraries. He has an informal and humorous lecture style that aims to make history interesting, accessible and relevant for his audience, without bombarding them with dates and facts.

 

TRACY FLEMING - Photographer
Tracy has been fascinated by photography ever since asking for her first Brownie camera at the age of 9, which led to her building her own darkroom soon after. Then, 10 years ago she was given the opportunity to travel full time with her husband, Destination Consultant Jon Fleming, and she has used this fantastic round-the-world experience to hone her skills.
Tracy will be sharing her years of experience behind the camera with you in a number of lessons that will take you from the basics of your digital camera to editing your shots, so that you can produce your own masterpieces.

 

LUIS JAIME CASTILLO -  Ph.D. Archaeologist, Peruvian Cultural Expert
Luis Jaime Castillo Butters is Vice Minister of Cultural Patrimony and Cultural Industries, Ministry of Culture, Perú. He is also Professor of Archaeology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.

 

MICHAEL BUERK - Broadcast journalist and writer
Michael Buerk is one of the United Kingdom’s best known broadcast journalists and writers. He has probably won more awards for international television reporting than any other British journalist. He was main presenter (anchor) of the BBC’s flagship evening television news program for 15 years. He continues to report for and present television and radio programs for the BBC and other channels, write for many of Britain’s leading newspapers and magazines, lecture on current affairs issues and chair corporate and other conferences.

 

BRUCE RIEDEL - International Affairs Expert, Adviser
A Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Bruce Riedel has been a senior adviser on Middle East Policy for the last four US Presidents. He was with the CIA for 29 years and was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Career Medal.

 

DR. MARK H. ELOVITZ - World Affairs Expert
World class expertise coupled with high class presentation combine to make Dr. Elovitz a first class world affairs commentator. For the past decade, Dr. E. -as he is known to his well-traveled, well-educated and upscale audiences - has been presenting World Affairs Hot Spot lectures to international acclaim. Prior to lecturing around the world, Dr. E. served as a professor of law, a litigator, a government adviser and a U.S. Air Force Officer.  Currently, Dr. Elovitz is Director of the Centre For Strategic Geopolitics, a world affairs think tank.

 

RUSTY SCHWEICKART - Astronaut
Apollo 9 astronaut Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart is a retired business and government executive who served for ten years as Chairman of the B612 Foundation, a non-profit private foundation that champions the development of spaceflight concepts to protect Earth from future asteroid impacts. Given that past NASA efforts have discovered less than 1% of the 1 million asteroids which might impact Earth, the Foundation’s current focus is on launching Sentinel, an infra-red space telescope which will discover the remaining 99%.

 

WAL CRAY - Captain
Captain Cray began his seafaring career in 1960 with a brief spell in the Royal Australian Navy followed by 24 years with an Australian oil company, rising from Cadet to Master of super-tankers trading through the Great Barrier Reef from Indonesia to Brisbane and Sydney. In 1986 he gained an unrestricted licence as a Great Barrier Reef pilot and worked as a pilot until his retirement in 2014.  He was a specialist cruise ship pilot for the last 18 years.

 

JAMES BRADLEY- Writer
James Bradley is a New York Times number one best-selling author and a son of John Bradley, who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of that event is the world’s most reproduced photo. Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood told their father-son story in their movie, Flags of Our Fathers. An acclaimed professional speaker who has entertained thousands, James brings Pacific history alive.

 

 ERNEST REA- British Broadcaster
Ernie Rea is a celebrated British broadcaster who specializes in the history of religions and the way that faith impacts on the contemporary world. His regular National Radio Program, Beyond Belief, was awarded the prestigious Sony Gold Award for the Best Speech Program on British Radio. Ernie Rea worked for the BBC for 22 years in a variety of production and editorial roles. 

 

PROF. DAVID J. DREWRY - Environmental Scientist
David Drewry has research interests in environmental science, particularly geology, climate change, and science policy. He has published three books and more than 90 research papers (including in Nature and Science). He has traveled extensively in the Pacific and has led scientific expeditions to southern Africa and the Polar regions.  He has a mountain and a glacier named after him in Antarctica.

 

For the 2019 the lecturers included the Tale Tellers I mentioned in an earlier post.  They were also named on the Silversea website prior to sailing.  Other lecturers (bios appeared in the Chronicle) included:

Eric Ball - Lectured on French Polynesia

Captain Rick Reynolds - Pilot of the Concorde

Christophe Hoppe - Bausele watch founder

Captain Warwick Conlin - Reef Pilot

Dr. Lawrence Blair - Anthropologist

Dorris Welch - Marine biologist

Alastair Bruce - Lectured on British Royalty

Dr. Mark Elovtiz - Returning lecturer

Robert Schrire - Emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town and an internationally recognized expert on international issues. 

 

I hope Silversea has found some interesting folks for the 2024.  We have a lot of sea days!

[rojaan19]

Well Mysty I am  jumping in here with an  article that was in an  australian  newspaper today - on Thursday  Island !!  It is written by an  Irish man now living in Australia who is a "travel expert" and got a free cruise on Viking !

 

"This is why a good cruise is so exhilarating: you can arrive somewhere remote without making much effort. Getting to Thursday Island isn’t otherwise easy. You can fly from Cairns to Horn Island and transfer by ferry, or you can take a ferry from Cape York – though you’ll have to get there first.

Viking Orion has nipped over from Darwin while I was sleeping, conveying me in comfort to a place most Australians have heard about but never visited. Anyone determined to see their own country should add it to their bucket list.

Green Hill Fort.

As we drift towards the quay in tender boats, I see the tidy settlement is larger than it looked from the ship. Decent solid houses sit on hillsides lush with wanton tropical greenery and trees that blossom in explosions of orange and yellow.

I follow a great footpath that leads me around the coast. The setting is wonderful: a wide bay embraced in the arms of several islands. A brisk breeze mitigates the humidity. Clouds drift like galleons across a moody sky.

I pass the Grand Hotel and post office, backed by a small settlement that has those intriguing shops of remote places that sell generators and chainsaws and satellite dishes. Then the town falls behind me, replaced by mangroves.

 

Thursday Island’s melancholy and charming cemetery spreads over an entire hillside. The 1880s tombs of Japanese pearl divers are crumpled and tilted by time. So are the piously sentimental, colonial-era tombstones lopsided under eucalyptus trees further up the hillside, recording shockingly youthful lives.

Decima Clark died here in 1901 aged 37. She has a pointy tombstone (“God is Love”) decorated with stone-carved lilies and surrounded by rusting railings. Dead leaves are her only remaining tribute.

View from Green Hill Fort.

The newer graves of the Torres Strait Islanders are lovingly tended and lavish. Angels and crocodiles and an abundance of plastic flowers in riots of colour decorate their gleaming black slabs.

Photos show those lodged inside. There are Chinese and Muslim names and faces, and solidly English ones, and often extravagantly long names that mix cultures.

The cemetery has a memorial to Bernard Namok, who designed the Torres Strait flag. For Indigenous inhabitants, this is the heartland. For the rest of us, this is where Australia ends, or perhaps where Indonesia or Melanesia begins.

 

The Torres Strait Islands are a marvellously intermediate place with a fusion culture and cuisine you won’t find anywhere else. Torres Strait, Aboriginal, European and Asian elements mingle.

European missionaries and Japanese pearl fisherman came here nearly 150 years ago. World War II saw an influx of American and mainland Australian military personnel. The gun emplacements of Green Hill Fort now provide a marvellous outlook over slumped green islands and turquoise seas scattered with warplane wrecks.

The best sight is Gab Titui Cultural Centre. It displays historical artefacts and contemporary Torres Strait art, and also has a lively program of Indigenous music and dance.

 

Thursday Island has every tropical island cliche but no big hotel developments or cocktail bars. It’s a laidback, barefoot place for fishing charters and sunset beers.

Despite its cultural density, you can walk around its 3.5 square kilometres in a day and stop along the way to chat to locals. The kids are shy, flashing hellos before pedalling off on their bikes.

Thursday Island is the perfect cruise destination: hard to get to, interesting to visit, small enough to see in a few hours. But as we sail away, I know I’d like to return one day. "

 

[turtlemichael]

14 hours ago, mysty said:

I am very curious about the guest lecturers who will travel with us on this adventure.  For the 2016 version, the guest lecturers were named on the Silversea website prior to the sailing.  They included:

JON FLEMING - Destination Consultant
Jon Fleming’s combination of personal experience and historical knowledge, plus an entertaining presentation style has made him very sought after in the cruise industry. He has sailed on almost 100 cruises worldwide including complete round-the-world itineraries. He has an informal and humorous lecture style that aims to make history interesting, accessible and relevant for his audience, without bombarding them with dates and facts.

 

TRACY FLEMING - Photographer
Tracy has been fascinated by photography ever since asking for her first Brownie camera at the age of 9, which led to her building her own darkroom soon after. Then, 10 years ago she was given the opportunity to travel full time with her husband, Destination Consultant Jon Fleming, and she has used this fantastic round-the-world experience to hone her skills.
Tracy will be sharing her years of experience behind the camera with you in a number of lessons that will take you from the basics of your digital camera to editing your shots, so that you can produce your own masterpieces.

 

 

I hope Silversea has found some interesting folks for the 2024.  We have a lot of sea days!

Jon and Tracey were not on WC2023. There were various rumors as to why not. All I can say is that Jon, in particular, was greatly missed by many as the Destination Consultant. I hope that the issue, if there is one, has been resolved for 2024.

Edited September 2, 2023 by turtlemichael

[mysty]

1 hour ago, rojaan19 said:

Well Mysty I am  jumping in here with an  article that was in an  australian  newspaper today - on Thursday  Island !!  It is written by an  Irish man now living in Australia who is a "travel expert" and got a free cruise on Viking !

 

"This is why a good cruise is so exhilarating: you can arrive somewhere remote without making much effort. Getting to Thursday Island isn’t otherwise easy. You can fly from Cairns to Horn Island and transfer by ferry, or you can take a ferry from Cape York – though you’ll have to get there first.

Viking Orion has nipped over from Darwin while I was sleeping, conveying me in comfort to a place most Australians have heard about but never visited. Anyone determined to see their own country should add it to their bucket list.

Green Hill Fort.

As we drift towards the quay in tender boats, I see the tidy settlement is larger than it looked from the ship. Decent solid houses sit on hillsides lush with wanton tropical greenery and trees that blossom in explosions of orange and yellow.

I follow a great footpath that leads me around the coast. The setting is wonderful: a wide bay embraced in the arms of several islands. A brisk breeze mitigates the humidity. Clouds drift like galleons across a moody sky.

I pass the Grand Hotel and post office, backed by a small settlement that has those intriguing shops of remote places that sell generators and chainsaws and satellite dishes. Then the town falls behind me, replaced by mangroves.

 

Thursday Island’s melancholy and charming cemetery spreads over an entire hillside. The 1880s tombs of Japanese pearl divers are crumpled and tilted by time. So are the piously sentimental, colonial-era tombstones lopsided under eucalyptus trees further up the hillside, recording shockingly youthful lives.

Decima Clark died here in 1901 aged 37. She has a pointy tombstone (“God is Love”) decorated with stone-carved lilies and surrounded by rusting railings. Dead leaves are her only remaining tribute.

View from Green Hill Fort.

The newer graves of the Torres Strait Islanders are lovingly tended and lavish. Angels and crocodiles and an abundance of plastic flowers in riots of colour decorate their gleaming black slabs.

Photos show those lodged inside. There are Chinese and Muslim names and faces, and solidly English ones, and often extravagantly long names that mix cultures.

The cemetery has a memorial to Bernard Namok, who designed the Torres Strait flag. For Indigenous inhabitants, this is the heartland. For the rest of us, this is where Australia ends, or perhaps where Indonesia or Melanesia begins.

 

The Torres Strait Islands are a marvellously intermediate place with a fusion culture and cuisine you won’t find anywhere else. Torres Strait, Aboriginal, European and Asian elements mingle.

European missionaries and Japanese pearl fisherman came here nearly 150 years ago. World War II saw an influx of American and mainland Australian military personnel. The gun emplacements of Green Hill Fort now provide a marvellous outlook over slumped green islands and turquoise seas scattered with warplane wrecks.

The best sight is Gab Titui Cultural Centre. It displays historical artefacts and contemporary Torres Strait art, and also has a lively program of Indigenous music and dance.

 

Thursday Island has every tropical island cliche but no big hotel developments or cocktail bars. It’s a laidback, barefoot place for fishing charters and sunset beers.

Despite its cultural density, you can walk around its 3.5 square kilometres in a day and stop along the way to chat to locals. The kids are shy, flashing hellos before pedalling off on their bikes.

Thursday Island is the perfect cruise destination: hard to get to, interesting to visit, small enough to see in a few hours. But as we sail away, I know I’d like to return one day. "

 

 

I love that description @rojaan19 !  Thank you for that! 🥰

[mysty]

35 minutes ago, turtlemichael said:

Jon and Tracey were not on WC2023. There were various rumors as to why not. All I can say is that Jon, in particular, was greatly missed by many as the Destination Consultant. I hope that the issue, if there is one, has been resolved for 2024.

 

Thank you @turtlemichael !  Jon was excellent in our experience!  Witty, charming and very knowledgeable!  Last I heard,  he and Tracy were taking shorter cruises to spend more time with family.  They will both be missed! 

[mysty]

This is what greeted us in our suite on embarkation day for the 2019 World Cruise.  It was awesome!  It was also a surprise since this was not the welcome for the 2016 World Cruise.  I'm not sure what to expect for this upcoming adventure.  I hope they make a splash!

 

[mysty]

POTENTIAL SPOILER  ALERT - For those who want to be surprised with the World Cruise event in Shanghai maybe don't read this post.

 

This is the description for the World Cruise event in Shanghai on the Silversea website....
"THE PAST AND FUTURE IN COLOUR
Enjoy a unique subversive dining experience specially created just for you. You’ll go on a culinary journey from old Shanghai to modern China bathed in colour, sound and scent, for a truly unforgettable evening. This multi-sensory experience at a secret location will combine the world’s most modern technology with some of the world’s best food. Globally renown chefs will use UV lights to prepare bespoke menus that will result in perhaps the most avant-garde dining experience in the world."

 

https://guide.michelin.com/ca/en/shanghai-municipality/shanghai/restaurant/ultraviolet-by-paul-pairet
Does this sound familiar...
"This multi-sensory experience at a secret location that combines a 20-course meal with lights, sounds and scents will give you quite an adrenaline rush. After the success of Mr & Mrs Bund, chef Paul Pairet created this clever concept where 10 lucky diners are taken on an interactive culinary journey beyond their wildest dreams. Be dazzled by the creative mix of tastes, unconventional presentations and enthusiastic service, all enhanced by imagination."

 

https://jingdaily.com/fully-immersive-shanghai-restaurant-ultraviolet-adopts-unconventional-business-model/
"For the start of your dining experience, an email directs you to Mr & Mrs Bund, Pairet’s other modernist French eatery on the Bund at 6:30 to be shuttled to “a secret location”. You sip on a glass of pear cider and size up your dinner companions for the night, a group of immaculately dressed strangers. A palpable sense of anticipation builds with every passing minute.

Already, elements are at work, influencing in your mind what Pairet calls “psycho taste”, the preconceived idea of what taste should be based on memory, imagination, experience, and culture. This is what your mind is anticipating, and consists of all of the expectations you have built about your meal up until now. What Pairet wants to probe is how this “mindset” taste impacts actual taste.

From this moment on, you surrender all control of your senses. Every moment is orchestrated in fine detail, all to drive the plot of Pairet’s greatest work yet, the operatic feast that is Ultraviolet. Down a dark alley in the depth of a parking garage, doors open, lights flash, the dramatic overture of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” fills the room, and you start to get an idea of the night ahead."
 

 

If the World Cruise event is a variation of Ultraviolet, it will be spectacular!

Edited September 3, 2023 by mysty

[mysty]

To provide a bit of background about mysty.....I was employed for untold years as an Economic Statistician with Statistics Canada (comparable to the the US Census Bureau or Office for National Statistics for England and Wales).  My task was to analyse the data and let the numbers tell the story.  Many times additional research was required to attempt to explain blips in the trends.  That is where my love of research was born.  I thrill to following information footprints to find the gems.  One of my favourite activities is to research ports, special festivals, awesome foods, out-of-the-way wonders and special joys for our cruises.  The journey, for me, is as much fun as the destination.

[lincslady]

Your previous employment explains a lot,  Mysty.  I enjoy doing 'research' on things, online, but not to the extent you do, or I guess most people.  What is nice about doing any is that you can enjoy the subject twice, once visualising it beforehand and hopefully even more when you are there!  The Shanghai event sounds completely out of this world - I hope I am still around to read about it when you have enjoyed it.  Do you know if any of your fellow world cruisers are following your posts?  They will owe you a few glasses of good champagne on board if they are.

 

Lola

[mysty]

18 minutes ago, lincslady said:

Your previous employment explains a lot,  Mysty.  I enjoy doing 'research' on things, online, but not to the extent you do, or I guess most people.  What is nice about doing any is that you can enjoy the subject twice, once visualising it beforehand and hopefully even more when you are there!  The Shanghai event sounds completely out of this world - I hope I am still around to read about it when you have enjoyed it.  Do you know if any of your fellow world cruisers are following your posts?  They will owe you a few glasses of good champagne on board if they are.

 

Lola

 

There are 4 self-declared fellow travelers who are posting here.   I'm not sure if there are others reading along.  If my contributions are helpful,  that's awesome! 😁

[drron29]

And although I do look forward to meeting you next March I post for the others as well having noted like you some have declared themselves in this thread.

I also had a reminder of times past recently so will put another post about Newcastle soon.

[mysty]

7 minutes ago, drron29 said:

And although I do look forward to meeting you next March I post for the others as well having noted like you some have declared themselves in this thread.

I also had a reminder of times past recently so will put another post about Newcastle soon.

 

And your contributions are very much appreciated @drron29 !  Thank you!

[mysty]

Myster has a standing golf date for early Sunday mornings.  Yesterday I was left to my own devices and that is never a good idea.  To keep out of trouble, I decided to test drive my plan for my jewelery packing.

These are the cases...

 

These are the pieces I intend to bring....

 

Here is the assembly.....

 

And here they are packed ready for the carry on.....

 

I think this will work!

[lincslady]

You get the gold medal for the best organised person in cruising land,  Mysty.  Surely a slight chance of changing your mind before you go??

 

Lola

[mysty]

33 minutes ago, lincslady said:

You get the gold medal for the best organised person in cruising land,  Mysty.  Surely a slight chance of changing your mind before you go??

 

Lola

 

Oh probably more than a slight chance Lola!  😅  I put everything back in place after the trial run.  I was just making sure that,  at the last minute, my wonderful plan wouldn't go south!