Travelling On

beanielou

St Petersburg is the one place my mums has not been too & would like to go!

Karmacat

It sounds magical in a lot of ways, beanie, doesn't it, as "Leningrad" recedes into history ... does your family have Russian links, or is your mum just attracted to it from the sound of it all? Its agonising that there's "only" two days there, it'd be very easy to spend a fortnight.

beanielou

No Russian links, just somewhere she has always been fascinated by.

Suffolk_lass

This all sounds very exciting - five days at my Mum's and you have booked 2 cruises, had your stitches out, reminded me to request meds and to check when my flu jab is available (no word yet - they usually write) - we are relatively low risk but I get mine free because of the asthma - thanks KC it all sounds fantastic.

Just found the letter for the flu jab in with the unopened post - 15th Oct

themadvix

:T :T to the cruise being booked! Ooh and so soon, so not long to wait! What will the weather be like in St Petersburg? When we went in Feb the sea was frozen! We walked on it!

Karmacat

beanielou wrote: »

No Russian links, just somewhere she has always been fascinated by.

I can understand that

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

This all sounds very exciting - five days at my Mum's and you have booked 2 cruises, had your stitches out, reminded me to request meds and to check when my flu jab is available (no word yet - they usually write) - we are relatively low risk but I get mine free because of the asthma - thanks KC it all sounds fantastic.

Thanks SL life has suddenly accelerated, its quite odd, but I like it

Just found the letter for the flu jab in with the unopened post - 15th Oct

Thats good news too then - mine's actually four days after yours, but in any case, we'll both have time to get the antibodies going full blast before the season strikes

themadvix wrote: »

:T :T to the cruise being booked! Ooh and so soon, so not long to wait! What will the weather be like in St Petersburg? When we went in Feb the sea was frozen! We walked on it!

Oh wow, madvix! I want that! Sadly, I won't get it :rotfl: it's about 5 degrees colder than here, currently. I'm going to do what we did last time - take 2 scarves in case one gets blown overboard :rotfl:

Karmacat

There are 25 jobs I need to do in the next 4 days **faints**


Truthfully, some of them are very ordinary - shower, wash hair - and some take almost no time - finish the herbs dehydrating, write a cheque to my sister, send money between accounts online. So I have to do a minimum of 6 each day. Today's will be:
- settle fridge/freezer in (it's being delivered today!)
- send money between accounts online
- finish herbs dehydrating
- put washing machine on.
- order currency. I have lots of euros, but I need roubles (I need roubles :j:j:j) plus a bit of Danish and Norwegian walking around money.
- plant up the rosemary cuttings - I'm going to put them in a container in the bath, and use the horticultural wicking material I bought last year but never used.


Oh dear! :rotfl:

Karmacat

- settle fridge/freezer in
Now delivered, it's cooling down. I still need to clean it and the floor (evaporative "tank" of previous f/f was very, very full )

- send money between accounts online
Done.

- finish herbs dehydrating
They're finished, once they're cooled down I'll put them in little kilner jars.

- put washing machine on.
Not yet.

- order currency. I have lots of euros, but I need roubles (I need roubles :j:j:j) plus a bit of Danish and Norwegian walking around money.
Done. To be collected from Waitrose on Thursday after 2pm.

- plant up the rosemary cuttings - I'm going to put them in a container in the bath, and use the horticultural wicking material I bought last year but never used.
Got the plantpots set up, need to find the rooting powder, and go from there.

- ETA: I've also deleted all the photos on the camera, now downloaded to the laptop, and I'm charging the camera.

Goldiegirl

Ah yes, the dreaded 'things to be done before I go away list'. My list is bad enough when I've known for ages that I'm going away, let alone a few days notice.

I haven't quite learnt to be as spontaneous to go away on holiday at as moment's notice, so I admire what you are doing.

I am getting better than I used to be - I can now wake up in the morning and decide to go out for the day, instead of having a couple of days notice. Perhaps I need to put 'book last minute holiday' on my year planner, that'll focus my mind.

I really liked Balmoral. My top tip about restaurants on this ship. We were assigned the Ballindolich (or something like that) dining room for our dinner, but for lunch and breakfast we tended to go to either the Spey or Avon, which were smaller rooms and, being on a higher deck, had great views. Only problem was that, as the cruise went on, more and more people discovered these smaller restaurants and queues would build up, so we had to get there earlier and earlier.

Nice food though - at dinner time I got a bit addicted to their fruit soups.

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Ah yes, the dreaded 'things to be done before I go away list'. My list is bad enough when I've known for ages that I'm going away, let alone a few days notice.

I'm sort of glad to hear it my master list is on a memo on my phone, so I'm fiddling with that quite a lot

I haven't quite learnt to be as spontaneous to go away on holiday at as moment's notice, so I admire what you are doing.

It just kind of happened :rotfl: we were honestly looking to book the Greenland one next year, and decided to see if we could get it cheaper. The rest is history

I am getting better than I used to be - I can now wake up in the morning and decide to go out for the day, instead of having a couple of days notice. Perhaps I need to put 'book last minute holiday' on my year planner, that'll focus my mind.

For day trips, I'm terrible: it usually happens that I don't decide I want to go out until late morning, and then its too late to travel very far, and its almost an hour till the next train, and it would be mid-afternoon by the time I got anywhere much better for me to decide the day before at the latest, energy levels just aren't what they used to be.

I really liked Balmoral. My top tip about restaurants on this ship. We were assigned the Ballindolich (or something like that) dining room for our dinner, but for lunch and breakfast we tended to go to either the Spey or Avon, which were smaller rooms and, being on a higher deck, had great views. Only problem was that, as the cruise went on, more and more people discovered these smaller restaurants and queues would build up, so we had to get there earlier and earlier.

We *have* to go to the buffet - our sit-down dinner slot is 8.30, and neither of us want that, in fact I loathe the idea The ship sounds lovely though.

Nice food though - at dinner time I got a bit addicted to their fruit soups.

And that sounds amazing! I can't wait!