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Oh man! No Oman for us!
After our whirlwind trip of Colombo, our ‘all aboard’ time was for 6:30pm. Typically our sail away time is 1hr after this. Instead of eating in the main dining room, we decided to choose our dinner from the buffet and eat outside by the pool so we could watch our departure from the busy Colombo…
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
The morning after we left Singapore, Mark noticed that the ship was travelling more slowly than its usual 18 knots – his experience told him we were going about 12 knots. Sure enough, at 11 a.m., the captain announced that they were having trouble with a diesel generator and that while this did not affect…
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Singapore
As we have been sailing we have seen the odd ship every now and again. The evening before we got into Singapore the amount of other ships around us had increased considerably. We got up early to experience sailing into Singapore amongst all the the other ships as Mark remembered it from his Navy days.…
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Crossing the line – Java Sea.
Today, our first crossing of the Equator for this trip was celebrated with a fun ceremony on the outside pool deck. Having done it many times in his Navy career, Mark was very impressed that the Princess ceremony remained true to many of the traditions that he remembered. At 1pm, King Neptune and his queen…
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Komodo Island, Indonesia
We dropped anchor at about 6am and they had the tenders out very quickly for our transportation to the island. The organisation of groups on to the tenders went quite smoothly. Because you can only go ashore as part of an organised tour (Indonesian government rule) we had booked our tour tickets very early and…
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Brisbane to Komodo Island
Brisbane to Komodo Island is our longest number of consecutive sea days – 6 in total. Some might think that this could be boring or restful but in fact we have been busy, busy, busy. We start our day at 7am with a visit to the gym for about 45 minutes and then a few…
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Brisbane
Today the ship arrived in Brisbane to disembark the final passengers from the 35 day cruise of the Pacific and collect the final passengers for the world cruise. We had anticipated that we would be among the ‘younger’ guests on the cruise and we weren’t wrong. However a number of the passengers that boarded in…
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First Sea day
We had spent the evening of boarding day exploring the many decks and facilities of the ship. Hopefully as the days progress we will spend less time getting lost! Using our cruise app, we had selected a variety of activities for our first sea day. Our day started in the gym on the treadmil and…
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Sailing day!
After I don’t know how many years and months of waiting, sailing day has finally arrived! Negative Covid tests done and documented we went for a walk through nearby Hyde Park and had coffees at QVB to fill in the morning. Ship boarding was open from midday so we left Jake’s at about this time…
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Sydney – Day 3
For Mark and me, no visit to Sydney is complete without a trip over to Manly on the ferry. The day had started very foggy and a bit on the cool side, but we decided to proceed with our Manly visit. It did not disappoint! It was sunny and our jumpers were soon off as…
Westysclan World Cruise 2023 