Well, what a day!! Woke at 6am!! Went to their breakfast room for cereal, fruit, buns, croissants, danish pastries and coffee. We left the hotel before 8am and walked down to Notre Dame. It was very crowded and we decided not to stay for mass. I lit a candle and said a prayer. We were amazed at the size of the cathedral (with TV screens down the sides) and the different areas where you could pray to whichever Saint had a statue there.The stained glass windows w...

This morning we were up early - breakfast in the Pavillion at 6am then finish packing. We were in the Midships Lobby on 2 Deck by 7am and in a taxi to the train station by 7.30am because we took ourselves and our luggage off the ship. The next train to Waterloo was at 8am, arriving there at 9.20am. We went to the ticket office and changed our train to Paris to 10.28am. We passed over English countryside, through Tonbridge, for 1 hour, put our clocks forward 1 h...

Happy Birthday Tom!! And it's Good Friday. I gave Tom a card and a QE2 pin I'd bought in the bookshop. We slept in - the water was amazingly calm. The Bay of Biscay was totally flat all day. After breakfast we found out how much taxis/trains in Southampton to London cost. Then we converted all our Portuguese and American money into Francs and 10 pound. After that we checked out the clothing specials down in the gym and then re-checked the shops - nothing we wan...

Breakfast at 7am, then went and watched our arrival in Lisbon. It is a really pretty city and has less than 1 million population. We rang the girls then but lost the signal so went upstairs on deck and rang again. Shannon and Jess sound happy - it's Thursday pm for them. We had a lovely tour of Lisbon then left the tour where the shuttle buses run from. We went shopping in a nice area. The buildings are covered in tiles - everyone has to clean their buildings, s...

The seas were rough during our World Club party but quietened down after that - very calm when we woke latish this morning. We joined a trivia team which was fun, then I went to a Steiner beauty talk. Tom was doing Origami. After lunch we went along to the Art Auction - the man running it said nor more raffles because someone complained about the cost of postage - I sympathised with them and told them I had my heart set on the Picot, so he said if I bought a ...