Yellow Monday?

As I wrote a blog about Blue Monday, the first Monday after a full week in January being the bluest day of the year. The day where most people felt the pressures of the festivities. So I thought Id bring you today’s news: Today is meant to be the Happiest Monday of the year – The daily mails article I read this morning over coffee states that The first Monday in February is statically the happiest Monday of the year – so the happiest colour I could think of would be yellow! So is today Yellow Monday? Well, the first Monday in February - The article also says that its due to a combination of the first post Christmas pay cheque and the booking of summer holidays makes today the happiest of the year

To read the article click here: Just so you all know I’m not making it up to make you feel better, however I genuinely feel a little bit happy and excited for no apparent reason, so perhaps there is some truth in after all.

How are you all feeling today?

Have you booked your holidays yet?

Crystal Clear Cruising

Here at Cruise.co.uk there is a new buzz about the office as the luxury cruise liner Crystal famed for their Luxurious suites, sumptuous food and seriously outstanding service have today announced details of the 2012 world cruise. The vessel is the Crystal Serenity has a guest capacity of 1080. Registered in the Bahamas this 68,000 ton ship is perfect for the voyages ahead. The tour is called Epic Islands & Empires. The Crystal Serenity will sail for 94 days and has planned on taking in no less than 35ports.

Leaving LA on January 18th 2012 and going to places such as Hawaii, Sydney, Bangkok, Shanghai, Russia and Alaska

For the full itinerary click here:

Crystal is offering a series of firsts for them there are ports of call that they have never been to before, so regular crystal cruisers can get some new tastes and flavours of the world. And also on their website they have featured lots of shore excursions, which is a year in advance or the cruise. Yet another first!

For shore excursions click here:

To secure your cabin on this ship call me direct - 08004086144 and I will arrange the most fabulous cruise experience for you.

Model Cruise ships!

One of my colleagues at cruise.co.uk wrote an article yesterday for her blog about a man who has spent the last six months making a model of the ‘Love Boat’ Pacific Princess out of 250,000 Lego bricks. Here it is –

Now I’m sure she wont mind me showing everyone who visits my blog, but it reminded me of the ship model I saw during my cruise with Fred Olsen on the Black watch, a man had made a model of the famous Cunard ship the QM2 out of natural Amber – I can decide which is better – Lego or Amber – Lego probably sticks together a bit better!! The Amber ship was amazing!!

I’ve found a guy who has made the QM2 out of Lego – here it is on You tube:

Blue Monday - Sad Wednesday

Yesterday was my day off work, Wednesday 19th January 2011 and we had to make a very hard decision and have our wonderful family dog Megan put to sleep, a beautiful Welsh Border Collie, who we had from a working farm in Wales in 1996!! She would have been 15 in April. Unfortunately age caught up with her and she was blind, almost deaf and could only hear loud noises and her back legs were playing her up. We would often find her having wandered into a corner, not sure how to get out - stuck standing between a wall and a door.... or in the case of the picture below, a vase of flowers!!

This is Megan.

She was such a wonderful dog and we all have fond memories, I'm from a large family - 5 Kids at home including myself (Ive got another 5 brothers and sisters in Wales with my Dad!) and Megan slotted in just lovely along with our three cats Murphy who lives with me and Ive had since I was 17 is in the photo with Megan above! Kiara who lives with Donna and Marble who unfortunately had stroke last year and became very poorly.

I remember when the children were playing in the garden and a storm came, Megan, still a relatively young pup, decide that safety was paramount and rounded all the kids up that were playing in the garden, My sisters and brother and a few friends ended up all huddled up under the patio table!!! Wish I had a photo of that!

So here's, to you my Meggy Moo.. Rest in peace we have had a wonderful time together with the family - Thank you!

Cruise the Blues away

So statistically today is dubbed the ‘mood killer’ the third Monday in January will be the bluest day of the year with a post Christmas debt – rubbish weather and all round gloominess apparently makes today worse than any other!!!


Click here to read about what The Daily Mail has to say:


With today’s headlines such and Jordan and Alex Reid splitting up, the poor 9 year old boy that was stabbed by his 21year old schizophrenic brother, the four British women trapped in their hotel in Tunisia due to the conflict there, I’m not surprised today is the bluest of days.

According to the Daily Mail article there are three mood enhancing things that can be done, 1 is to help someone in need, 2 is receiving a compliment out of the blue and 3, the one I can help with – Listening to the sound of the sea – Call into cruise.co.uk and see what offers we have that might brighten up your 2011!!


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Somali Pirates strike again!!

Well well well, as you all know I'm quite nosy and often search world news for cruise tit bits and info that I can share with you all. but I didn't have to look very far for toady's info. Toady's Daily Mail headline is a Saga ship Somali pirates have tracked across the Indian Ocean and all passengers were ordered to the decks below for safety: Click here to read the full article.

The spirit of Adventure travelling from Madagascar to Zanzibar with up to 350 passengers who assumed

to be mostly British travellers when it was set upon by pirates. It just remind me of the poor couple who have been held hostage by pirates thinking that our government would pay the ransom! Paul and Rachel Chandler who werenear the Seychelles on their yacht 'Lynn Rival' when the pirates stuck taking them both - Luckily they have now been released and are back home with their families. Everyone here at cruise.co.uk is just as relived as I am that the captain on the Saga ship was able to hold all the security measures together and ensure that there were no injuries, and the pirates did not manage to get on board!

Missing cruise man reported in New Zeakand waters

I seem to stumble across these unfortunate incidents – whilst searching for some information regarding cruises in New Zealand in 2011 – I found an article published in the Herald Sun Australia about a young man presumed drowned

The man – a 32 year old went overboard on 8th January after falling from cruise liner MS Volendam a wonderful Holland America ship which sails the Island in February. The ship was in Lyttelton Mariner not far from Christchurch and they were performing some kind of training programme which has evidently gone wrong.

A cable on one of the lifeboats snapped and two men went into the water, one man lucky enough to find one, clung on to a bucket until he was rescued successfully and injury free by the Canterbury Coastguard. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the second man who m there is no sign of, even though they have search teams searching for him – Neither were wearing their life jackets, perhaps if they had then we would have been looking at the safe return of two men rather than the sad report of the missing man and a huge sigh of relief that the second man found that bucket!

I know like myself one muster drill feels a lot like the last and its fairly straight forward - But I honestly belief that these drills DO save lives and always discourage anyone from trying to pretend they are still in high school and playing truant – for the half an hour out of your day – It could prove beneficial – And there is usually the odd interesting or funny sight – Like when I was on the Adventure of the seas – One lady who had been hauled out of the pool to attend and was standing there on deck dripping wet!!!

Does anyone have any interesting sights to report?

6 New cruise ships for 2011

I’ve got my fingers crossed that cruise.co.uk get an invite or two for some of these launches, and that I get to go an have a nosey round to give the full low down.

Oceania launches the new ship Luxury liner Marina from the port of Barcelona on January 22nd, Marina is the biggest Oceania ship to date at 66,000 tons!!     

Disney Cruise lines have a new ship the Disney Dream, sailing on 26th January out of Port Canaveral in Florida at 128,000 tons she is offering everything you would expect from a Disney ship with maiden voyage out to Castaway Cay in the Bahamas, something for everyone, as long you’re a Disney lover than is!!

Carnival Cruise lines launch the ship ‘Magic’ on 1st May from Venice, she is the 23rd ship that Carnival own and promises a fantastic ship with all the character of a Carnival ship.

Italian cruise line Costa launch their newest lady to the seas, Favolosa at 114,500 tonnes will leave Venice on 4th July, hopefully with a firework or two to launch in line with Independence day! Superior designs inside offer a children’s water park with Pirate galleon!!

Celebrity Silhouette – the newest ship to the solstice class, sailing on July 23rd out of Hamburg – These ships are a wonderfully designed and Silhouette at 122,000 tonnes is due to be just as glorious as sister ships Eclipse and solstice!

Last but by no means least Yachts of Seabourn are offering up their new ship ‘Quest’ June 20th from Barcelona providing the ultra luxury standard we are used to from their other ships.

So if like so many other your fascinated by new - let me know which of our new ladies take you fancy and we can look at getting you on board.

Have you ever taken the maiden voyage? what did you think? Id love to hear your thoughts!

NEW YEAR - NEW CRUISE?

Well It official - the New Year is here, I'm back at work now and ready and waiting to get your 2011 cruises sorted.

I'm not one to wish away the year before its even started, but I wanted to let you all know about this fascinating piece of news I saw yesterday!

Tescos have started to launch their Easter range - LETS GET CHRISTMAS OUT OF THE WAY FIRST - PLEEEEEASE, I mean do they think that we have not had enough chocolate for a while and we could hold off for a few weeks before they shove the eggs down our throats!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239740/Its-New-Years-Day--Easter-eggs-appear-shelves-Tesco.html