South Pacific

3, 4 and 5 December 2019 We now have two sea days before our arrival in Sydney and it seems Julie is coming down with the head cold as well.

2 December 2019 I woke to a full blown head cold and looking at the cloudy skies I decided I would not take the tender in to the Bay of

1 December 2019 The predicted showers were nowhere to be seen as we docked in Auckland but my head cold seems to be getting worse. With this in mind we

30 November 2019 Our travel planner says we are stopping at Tauranga but we are really docked about 10 minutes away at Mount Maunganui or The Mount which is a

29 November 2019 We were greeted in Napier by a lovely sunny day and had an early start at 7:30 to meet our tour on the Hawkes Bay Express. The

28 November 2019 After our night out to sea today dawned just a little cloudy and we could see from the app on the television just how far out to

27 November 2019 After our full day in Dunedin we had a buffet dinner followed by the Abba party in Club Fusion and enjoyed some great music and dancing. It

26 November 2019 After leaving Dunedin railway station we made our way to the city centre along Stuart Street which is only about three blocks to walk, stopping for a

26 November 2019 We arrived in Port Chalmers for Dunedin on schedule but had to wait an allocated 45 minutes between cruise ships to dock, as the Celebrity Solstice had