"I'm in London, still..." (The Waifs). We spent the day on the Original London Bus Tour touring all of London's sights. Dropped in on the Queen at Buckingham Palace with a million other people and had coffee at Harrods. Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End last night was fantastic including a massive elephant that walked down the aisle past us and African singers singing right beside us before going on stage. Brilliant. Tonight we have booked a dinne...

'Ullo London! Arrived on British Airways and whisked off to our new digs at Cartwright Gardens Camden, not too far from the famous Cambden Markets which we will definitely visit again. The size of the rooms were a bit of a shock to those of us not used to Central London but a couple of pints of flat warm British ale from the very conveniently located Mabel's Tavern literally next door and a solid English Pub meal and we "packed up our troubles in our old kit bag...

Our last day in Venice as we fly to London for the last week of our holiday. Early morning start - Jeannie had set her alarm to "Drunk Smurf" and we were awakened by some pretty evil-sounding insane chuckling and laughter. Our porter MacBull (actually a wiry Indian dude as strong as an ox) turns up in the cobbled courtyard to take on our combined 150kg of luggage on his multi-wheeled trolley. MacBull's trolley has two small wheels at the front to get the trol...

Disembarkation day. Time to say goodbye to first class service, dining, accommodation and entertainment and being moved around the Mediterranean from fantastic port to port without having to pack or wait for trains or planes. Would definitely go with Princess Cruises again, just have to pick the next cruise route. As our 3500 disembark another 4000 are getting on this afternoon for the cruise back to Barcelona, after which the ship heads to America for their cru...

Venice Italy. Sailed in this morning through the Venetian archipelago island after island crowded with houses until we arrived at the main part of Venice sailing down the Grand Canal and reversed in to dock with the other cruise ships. A magical entry to Venice and we could see the whole of Venice from the decks, dwarfing the churches and houses lining the canals. Spending one more night on board before we check out tomorrow morning into our land-bound accommodat...