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South America Voyage January - March 2025
This cruise, on board Queen Victoria, departs Southampton UK on January 9th, 2025 for a 78 nights, returning to Southampton on March...


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Monday, January 6 – Thursday January 9, 2025 London and Embarkation in Southampton, England
On Monday we arrived in a freezing London following our flight from San Francisco. Over the last few years, we’ve justified flying...


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Thursday, January 13th, 2025. Praia Da Vitoria, Azores
The last 4 days at sea have been extremely rough with 7 metre swells and very high winds. Our nice Queen’s Grill suite with all of it’s...


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Friday, January 14th – Sunday January 19, 2025. Queen Victoria, at Sea
Six more sea days and the rough weather has continued, the cold temperatures and occasional rain have kept us largely indoors. We...


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Monday, January 20th, 2025. Port Canaveral, Florida, USA
I was awakened in the early hours this morning to blindingly bright flashing colored lights right in front of my face; at first, I...

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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
This morning we said goodbye to our fantastic wait staff in the Queen’s Grill restaurant, last night was our final sleep in the beautiful...

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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025. Queen Victoria, at Sea
A quick cabin update. Yesterday when we came back from our trip into Fort Lauderdale, we found that all of our things had been...


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Thursday January 23rd, 2025 Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands
This was our first visit to Grand Turk, a small island in the Caribbean nation of Turks and Caicos – an archipelago of 40 low-lying coral...


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Friday January 24th, 2025 Queen Victoria, at Sea
The highlight today was Cunard Insight lecture featuring David Coulthard, actually it was an interview rather than a lecture. Coulthard...


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Saturday January 25th, 2025 Queen Victoria, at Sea
This afternoon we took a “special afternoon tea” in the Verandah restaurant, a kind gift from our travel agent son, Scott. Cakes, scones...


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Sunday January 26th, 2025 Barbados
I was greeted with a beautiful sight this morning as I went out on to our balcony in Barbados; a magnificent square-rigged sailing ship...


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Wednesday January 29th, 2025 Queen Victoria, at Sea
Tonight we enjoyed an excellent dinner on board the Queen Mary at the Verandah steakhouse, courtesy of our brilliant travel agent (and...


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Thursday January 30th, 2025 Fortaleza, Brazil
We’ve had three sea days since Barbados with calm seas, overcast clouds but warm and humid weather. We crossed the equator yesterday at...


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Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Salvador, Brazil
Today we are on a ship’s shore excursion, although now I’ve noticed they’ve started to call them “experience” instead of “excursion” – I...


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Tuesday February 4th, 2025 Búzios, Brazil
Búzios is a resort set on an ocean peninsula east of Rio de Janeiro. It's known as an upscale vacation destination with numerous beaches....

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Wednesday February 5th, 2025 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Well here we are in Rio for the first day of our two day visit. We awoke this morning to slightly overcast skies and a view across a bay...


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Thursday February 6th, 2025 Petropolis, Brazil
Today we are traveling outside of Rio and up into the mountains to visit the old imperial city of Petropolis, it’s a 90 minute bus ride....


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Sunday February 9th, 2025 Montevideo, Uruguay
Another Sunday port day and another country, Uruguay – sandwiched between Brazil to the north and Argentina, across the River Plate to...


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Monday February 10th, 2025 Buenos Aires, Argentina
We’ve got two days in Buenos Aires and in order to get a feel for the city, this morning we have a ships excursion called Sights of...


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Tuesday February 11th, 2025 Buenos Aires, Argentina
For our second day in Buenos Aires we had planned to go into the city this morning via the free port and city shuttles – but events...