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We've talked about this before cashy, I'm with you, can't beat cruising110 days sounds about right to methats simple a world cruise 110 days.
I would love to be able to afford to take 12 months off work and go travelling to Australia and NZ. I do realise that I have been to these places before but 3 weeks at a time is no way to see these countries properly. To enable me to do this, I would need 5 numbers and the bonus..
For 6 numbers, why stop at 12 months?...5 numbers and the bonus..
We would be on a non-stop multi-lap loop-de-loop of the Blue Planet.... on one condition: The Ashes, wherever, whenever, are non negotiable. (I knew I'd get you back to Oz under false pretence
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Cashman you have it in one.thats simple a world cruise 110 days.
I’ve never been on a world cruise or any cruise for that matter. The nearest I got was the 13 days trip to Capetown and back with the Stirling Line. RMS Stirling Castle going out and RMS Athlone Castle coming home with a stop off at the Canary Islands. Las Palmas going out and Madeira coming home. It was almost like a cruise. Personal cabin steward. On board entertainment nightly. Swimming pool, deck games, bars and restaurants and even shops. Not on a grand scale but a rum and coke or brandy and dry tastes the same wherever you drink it.
I guess that you can’t count the several years of ‘cruising’ with the “Grey Funnel Line”. Warships don’t really count as ‘cruise ships’.
JB do you know if Stiling Castle lines were a kin to Union Castle Lines as the later was a South African Company, I went on two cruises back in the 60s on the SS Rena Del Mar, which was owned by Union Castle.
I have always fancied New York(but will probably never get there.....US immigration rules, passports etc)....I would love to revisit Hong Kong....and I would go back to OZ in a blink.
You’re right, now that you come to mention it, it was the Union Castle Line. It’s an age/memory thing.
The Rena Del Mar was the company flagship after they dumped RMMV Transvaal Castle as the flagship. Or was it the RMMV Pretoria Castle?
Stirling Castle – Transvaal Castle. Grey Funnel Line – HMS Alamein.
The Rena Del Mar was the company flagship after they dumped RMMV Transvaal Castle as the flagship. Or was it the RMMV Pretoria Castle?
Stirling Castle – Transvaal Castle. Grey Funnel Line – HMS Alamein.
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The Stirling castle has the same livery, but the Transvale Castle looks more lie the Rena Del Mar, I've bean trying to find some photos I have somewhere, but I'm not having to much luck
Going out to SA on the Stirling Castle we had a traditional “Crossing The Line” ceremony.
Where the victim was ‘captured’, tried in King Neptune’s court and the sentence was usually being daubed with flour and water, the odd bottle of tomato ketchup, force fed a tot of rum or whiskey and thrown in the pool where the ‘sharks’ lay in wait to dunk the unfortunate soul three times. On warships you got thrown over the side.
The ‘victims’ were supposed to be in fancy dress. So I got out my sailor’s tropical suit and went as a sailor. Not very imaginative but that’s all I had.
You won’t believe the number of offers I had from women onboard to wash the kit afterwards.
Coming back on the Athlone Castle the ceremony was for kids only.
Where the victim was ‘captured’, tried in King Neptune’s court and the sentence was usually being daubed with flour and water, the odd bottle of tomato ketchup, force fed a tot of rum or whiskey and thrown in the pool where the ‘sharks’ lay in wait to dunk the unfortunate soul three times. On warships you got thrown over the side.
The ‘victims’ were supposed to be in fancy dress. So I got out my sailor’s tropical suit and went as a sailor. Not very imaginative but that’s all I had.
You won’t believe the number of offers I had from women onboard to wash the kit afterwards.
Coming back on the Athlone Castle the ceremony was for kids only.
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If I had the money it would have to be a cruise round the world. I love the sea and I love travelling. I am going on a 2 week cruise round the Eastern Med next year but I'd love to make it 3 months and call at all the places I'd love to visit.
I'm hoping to go to New York near to Christmas, with my elder daughter, but if it were possible I'd go to the Northern States for several weeks (my 2nd choice) and see all the places that are not on the tourist map. In the 60s we had USAAF neighbours (in Whitby, via RAF Fylingdales) who were from Montana. Martha (who had Native American in her ancestry) grew up on a ranch 10 miles from Miles City, a one-horse town in Custer County, Montana. She told me, in 1968, her parents had only had electricity for 3 years. I wanna go there and see real America, not plastic Florida or Mighty-Dollar NY.
I've seen the pyramids at Giza, in transit from Saudi Arabia, even ridden camel-back round them by moonlight but I'd love to visit Cairo again and then see the Valley of the Kings and sail the length of the Nile - so that's choice number 3.
None of it's going to happen unless I either win the Lottery or my Premium Bonds come up but I can dream, can't I?
I'm hoping to go to New York near to Christmas, with my elder daughter, but if it were possible I'd go to the Northern States for several weeks (my 2nd choice) and see all the places that are not on the tourist map. In the 60s we had USAAF neighbours (in Whitby, via RAF Fylingdales) who were from Montana. Martha (who had Native American in her ancestry) grew up on a ranch 10 miles from Miles City, a one-horse town in Custer County, Montana. She told me, in 1968, her parents had only had electricity for 3 years. I wanna go there and see real America, not plastic Florida or Mighty-Dollar NY.
I've seen the pyramids at Giza, in transit from Saudi Arabia, even ridden camel-back round them by moonlight but I'd love to visit Cairo again and then see the Valley of the Kings and sail the length of the Nile - so that's choice number 3.
None of it's going to happen unless I either win the Lottery or my Premium Bonds come up but I can dream, can't I?