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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
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Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Tips were not included in the cost, but they put out an envelope on our last day on the boat in each cabin with a suggestion that we put in €12 per day. I thought the crew were wonderful so I put in €100. Diogo had a separate tip box and he got what change I had left, just over €4 which sounds a bit...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: April Showers Chatty Thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 257
April Showers Chatty Thread
Thank you Eccs and Furby. Dr Yue thought I had started tending towards sinus bradycardia (slower heart beat) a little while ago and the beta blocker was making it worse. Looks like he was correct.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: April Showers Chatty Thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 257
April Showers Chatty Thread
I had a letter from Cardiology, giving me an appointment for my heart ultrasound scan on 7 May. That means both the tests that Dr Yue thought necessary have been arranged. Meanwhile my BP is 130s/80s most of the time and my pulse is usually in the 70s or 80s. I haven't had a dizzy spell since part w...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
for Eccs.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Eccs.
You're 100% correct with your one sentence summary about my holiday.
You're 100% correct with your one sentence summary about my holiday.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: April Showers Chatty Thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 257
April Showers Chatty Thread
Well done Jay. After work I once had a full rear view of a lady with a posterior 5 times as wide as Jay's leaning into the boot of her car; the lady was wearing very tight leggings. I was sitting in my car about to drive away from the car park, but I didn't leave straight away because I was interest...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Furby grumbled So nothing really went wrong with cruise in the sense of Poseidon adventure it was just that it couldn't sail due to too much water in river. What a swizz story I was looking forward to some dreadful disasters. I expected at least one person falling overboard. :rofl In my defence, it ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Day 7 - Monday April 8 On this morning we should have been returning to Oporto, but we were at Entre-os-Rios waiting for the Salamanca people to return from what turned out to be a very good trip for them; overnight in a 5 star hotel with a first-rate dinner, flamenco show with dinner, huge rooms w...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
The solo traveller cruises are few and far between, Furby, and it looks as if all the Douro ones next year are in March. So I am hoping that next year the river behaves itself and all the sailings happen on time. And yes, there are puds after all the fish, which I had on separate evenings at dinner....
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: The Stables, & other animals
- Topic: The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
- Replies: 12
- Views: 204
The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
Thanks, Furby. Mel has been brooding them both times I've looked. Mel is now having a late lunch so I could see the two eggs. The Diary has been updated and they think she will lay one more egg, perhaps tomorrow. Meanwhile the last chick reared to fledge by Winnie and William last year has been spot...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: April Showers Chatty Thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 257
April Showers Chatty Thread
I phoned Riviera Travel this morning because I haven't received the official letter re compensation yet, and I was informed it was sent out on 9 April. So they will email it to me sometime today. I have decided what to do with the compensation if Riviera stick to their promise of 100% of the cost go...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Day 6 - Sunday April 7 This was a busy early morning for the people going to Salamanca, because their coaches set off at 08:00. Meanwhile, a morning excursion to the Mateus Palace gardens had been arranged for those of us who didn't go to Salamanca. I was fed up with riding on coaches so I stayed o...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Was the original plan to stay on the boat and just have short trips where it stopped Correct, Furby. However, even from Oporto we were never on the coach for much more than 1 hour, but after that the coach seat was starting to get uncomfortable for me. I have a tender spot at the base of my spine, ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Diogo was great. He's a freelance and not an employee of the travel company. He really worked his socks off for us, and our group told him several times just how much we appreciated his efforts, and the kindness of the boat crew (of which there were 40), several times after things started to go wrong.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Sound & Vision
- Topic: Yodel!
- Replies: 205
- Views: 12371
Yodel!
I have not the slightest idea what this is all about, and I don't know what the clowns have to do with it. The yodelling herdsmen of Appenzell.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Quizzes & Questions
- Topic: Tough 2 (14 April)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 36
Tough 2 (14 April)
14 Chungkingosaurus; Gobisaurus; Sinraptor; Yuanmousaurus? Dinosaurs named after places in China as they were dicovered there. A little bit more on the islands with borders question. Borneo is shared by Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Hispaniola by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Ireland by the Re...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Here's a pic of the Crestuma lock in action.
And here's a boat emerging from the lock - as you can see, there isn't much clearance.
And here's a boat emerging from the lock - as you can see, there isn't much clearance.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Travellers' Tales
- Topic: Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 342
Ahoy there - OC takes a cruise!!!
Day 5 - Saturday April 6 On this day we should have begun sailing back down the Douro, pausing to visit a historic Quinta and learning all about wine production. Instead, the boat was still stuck in Gaia opposite Oporto. Diogo had produced a Plan B the previous evening, but that assumed that the bo...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Stables, & other animals
- Topic: The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
- Replies: 12
- Views: 204
The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
I think Mel has laid an egg. I saw her on the nest box earlier today looking like she was brooding. She's on the gully wall now, so I can see the egg which is very well camouflaged against the gravel in the box. She's a bit late - I think most peregrines started laying their eggs a month ago.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Snapshots
- Topic: At Slimbridge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25
At Slimbridge
Lovely pics as always, Eccs.