Devall Travels

Currently a little quiet on this trip. We have to pay the balance on the trip in March but apart from that we have not much to add. There was a newspaper article about cruise companies becoming a little stricter on what people are wearing on the ships during the day. With mass cruising there seems to have been a downturn in the standard of dress with people wearing football shirts and gaudy leisurewear. Maybe they shouldn't be letting stag and hen parties on in the first place, as one of the stricter rules is no messages and group wear..... On the only previous full cruise we have been on with Saga, there was a dress code and it is not hard to adhere too. But there have been loads of over reaction from people vowing never to go with NNNN Cruise again. P&O are one of the NNNN companies and have said that they will enforce a certain level of dressing on the ship.  I am all for that. Cue comments? And that's about it. https://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/news/news....

After a few days of looking and exchanging emails with a travel agent we have booked.  But not with her.   The Cunard cruise on Queen Victoria sails from Southampton on August 3rd. A Friday.  A further examination revealed very few Norway sailings for August.  But P&O have one on the 4th.  Much better. Both are for seven days with slightly different ports in Norway.  We have been to Stavanger and Bergen before but didn't have much time to look about. Hopefully, in Bergen we'll dock in the city port,  Bergen Havn,   rather than way out in the industrial point and lose time waiting for coaches into the centre.

Hardly a Shakespearean conundrum but one for us.  Further enthused (read jealousy on my behalf) by my brother. Neill, and his mate Patrick being there as I write on their Scandinavian Tour, Claire suggested another cruise. She has wanted to go on another one and although I was a little hesitant before, I really enjoyed the Fjord Cruise with Saga. So we started the Google hunt. Where else? When we were in Stavanger in 2013 we were joined by the behemoth that was Cunard's Queen Elizabeth. A ship that dwarfed the smaller more intimate Saga vessel.   With the Council changing our employment rights so that we have to take the majority of our holidays in school holidays, and meaning that we now get lumbered with higher holiday prices from hotels to transport, the search parameters were more restrictive. We have found a cruise to Norway in August 2018 . It's aboard the QE sister ship Queen Victoria. Another floating city hotel. ...