This is the eve of a much anticipated voyage to the Antipodes. My neighbour Roger Horne took on the role of hatless chauffeur as I relaxed on the five hour journey from Harpur Hill, bathed in a cool mountain mist to a not much warmer less appealing Southampton. Gradually, it will become less cool as Queen Mary 2 steams south towards Portugal’s sunshine isle of Madeira, where it never really gets cold. One might experience the unpleasant condition of “mal de mer” as QM2 fights the strange currents in a turbulent Bay of Biscay.
Dinner tonight at the Ibis Hotel in Southampton consisted of sea bass and rice. The wall immediately next to our table has a map of the world, as if put there specially to mark my first trip to the other side of the World.
Watch this space…but don’t hold your breath!
David's Cruise 