After completing our first ever cruise on the Queen Elizabeth in October this year my husband Mr G asked if I would go on another and I promptly replied NO! cruising wasn’t for us. One month later and I’d changed my mind and was longing for another cruise…..the cruising bug had struck. Whilst planning this cruise I visited many cruise forums to glean whatever information I could, read loads of blogs which only fuelled my excitement.  With this in mind I took photos during our voyage with the intention of doing my own blog even if it was only a photo blog.   When I first arrived home, due to the way I was feeling (all will be revealed), I decided against doing a blog.  However now the cruise bug has hit I have changed my mind as it will be my only cruise 'fix' for quite a while.

Embarkation

Our very first cruise ever was on Queen Elizabeth Q619 around the Western Mediterranean October 2016. We live in the North of England, I have ME and so we decided to break our journey to Southampton up and travelled down over two days. On the Friday night Mr G was checking the booking details and discovered we had been visited by the Upgrade fairy. We weren’t sure if this was a good thing or not. We had deliberately booked cabin(sorry stateroom) 1077 because it was low down and midships. We had been upgraded to balcony stateroom 4186 on deck 4 right at the back (the bows, I believe), Read more