Like most people, the time leading up to a holiday is a mixture of anticipation, nerves and mild panic. With a 72 day cruise ahead, rather than the 14 day holidays we grew up with, there is often more to anticipate, a higher nervous state and an enhanced panic. Ironically, having now done several long cruises, I’d like to think we are now pretty well organised, particularly with the ‘to do’ and ‘to take’ lists, so packing isn’t really a major problem.
Last weekend, I finally wrapped up my 20 year involvement as convenor of a successful Classic Race Series in NZ, and at a dinner attended by 150 people, a great send off, with lots of laughs and a 13 minute video about the series now on YouTube. Such fame…
Whilst finalising this upcoming trip, I also had to sort out the planning for my own solo trip to the UK, just 5 days after we return, so lots of hits on the credit card.
So, 3:30am Monday June 20th pick up by the airport shuttle, which means a 2:45am alarm and with Sydney being 2 hours behind NZ, our Australian friends, will have just nodded off to sleep, with a day to go. Then we have a meeting or a pre-cruise catch up at the Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, with about 50 of us, getting in the swing a day early - though we may be nodding off...
So the next blog post will be - Day 1 – Sydney! Feel free to post comments – though Spam will obviously be deleted.
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