Travelling On

beanielou

Well done on the rosemary

wishingthemortgaheaway

Happy days indeed.

A relative of mine is retired and describes his amazing holidays as 'adventure before dementia' he's looking to travel the world while he can, the. Look at the photos when he can't. I want to be like him!

So, go for that cruise a 54 nights does seem very long, but why not? I'm guessing cruises are quite good for you health wise as you get rest days while you are sailing?

themadvix

Wow, 54 days! I'm too much of a homebody to cope with that, but if you fancy it, go for it. Could your sister fly to meet the boat (whoops, probably correct term is 'ship') for a shorter portion (if you and she were happy with that)? Or is that not a done thing? I know nothing about cruises.... DH feels sea sick if he so much as looks at a boat, so unlikely to be going on one!

Karmacat

wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »

Happy days indeed.

A relative of mine is retired and describes his amazing holidays as 'adventure before dementia' he's looking to travel the world while he can, the. Look at the photos when he can't. I want to be like him!

Definitely If I had the health and energy of when I was younger, I'd be doing it under my own steam, but I don't ... so this is what I've got, and I'm going to make the best of it.

So, go for that cruise a 54 nights does seem very long, but why not? I'm guessing cruises are quite good for you health wise as you get rest days while you are sailing?

It *is* long, isn't it, no two ways about it - just a little look at the other cruises on this particular site shows loads of holidays at 25 - 30 nights, which might be much more acceptable. The sea days are crucial for me, yes - in Norway, there was only one, and I was practically crying with exhaustion sometimes, even though I was enjoying everything so much. I'm healthier now, but I'm still not really at age-appropriate fitness levels. When I've finished the garden, I might be

Karmacat

So today, I was going to a local NT place, but the weather is more suitable tomorrow (cooler, less likelihood of rain etc) so I'll do it that way round. So that means carrying on with the jobs I'm doing: cleaning, tidying, gardening, networth calculations, bits of all of them (can't do one to exclusion - as well as the physical stuff being tiring, *anything* is boring if its all thats done ).

Karmacat

Botheration! And here we see the problems of not keeping up with stuff. First World problems, indeed, but since I *live* in the first world, they concern me. I have a tiny isa with Nationwide, which is "earning" the princely ROI of 0.5% p.a. And I'm too late to transfer in any other ISAs - I'd want to transfer in the Virgin money too, which is earning 0.5% less than the good Coventry one (excuse the confusing naming of names). So I need to open a new isa, for as high a rate as possible of course, which will allow transfers in. Okay, thinking is done.

Cheery_Daff

Botheration indeed. Those kind of minor vexations are, well, vexatious excellent news on the rosemary though! :j you've reminded me I have a couple of small plants that I propagated from the Bush at our old house so I'd really rather not lose them - they need getting out of the pot and into the ground pronto (I've been putting it off because I don't know where to put them which is ridiculous given how much space we have :rotfl: Just need to get them in the ground somewhere - I can always move them later after all!

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks Goldie! It's 54 nights it's practically round the world I have a suspicion it might be too much for my sister, but there are 30 day things that would do very nicely, thank you :cool:

Like I said, when we were away for 49 nights, it went very quickly, and I didn't think about home too much, even though I love my home. We've also been away for 35 nights, and that was great too.

However...…. I'm not sure I'd go away for such long cruises again. I loved it, but I think we've got it out of our systems now. We did toy with the idea of a cruise that P & O do, from Southampton and back, which goes all the way round South America. It would be an amazing opportunity to see lots of new places, but it was 65 nights away from home. I felt that it would be too long away, and we preferred to spend the money on the bathroom and cloak room

I think 25 - 30 nights would be the max I would do now.

Karmacat

Good points, Goldie. I've done two months away, but it was a long time ago, the winter of 1991 - I went hostelling around Greece and Turkey. Before the Americans launched their attack on Iraq (the first Gulf War) local people were very scared that Saddam would come further towards them - once it began, that was felt safer for where I was, but I still had the whole isolation thing (after a certain point, there were no other foreigners at all). Nowadays, with a kindle, a phone, and a way of writing (which keeps me sane!) I'd probably be okay on a cruise ship. Its not something I'd do twice though My gut says we're not doing the long one, we'll talk about it more when she gets back from a trip up north in 10 days time.


Meanwhile, I've repotted my fennel (not doing well) and potted on my new bay plant - I hope I haven't damaged the roots of that one, we'll see.

teapot2

Lots to ponder cruise wise Hope you enjoy your NT visit if you go tomorrow.