Posting from the Atlantic...
Sao Miguel - Largest of the AzoresAt the time of posting we are sailing past the Azores across the Atlantic on board the Royal Caribbean Cruise Liner, Legend of the Seas. Since finishing work at the end of September, we have made a couple of trips which will be covered in some later (brief) posts - we flew up to Edinburgh for a few days, and spent a night in Stamford. Then it was a week of packing and off to the docks.
We're going by ship for a number of reasons - after the stress and hassle of preparing a house, selling a house, packing, moving and selling off various things (e.g. the car), we felt that we would need a holiday and 14 days on a cruise sounded good (though we've never cruised before so its a bit of an in at the deep end type of thing). On top of that when we were making our plans the full restrictions on flying were in effect (they are still pretty bad) and the idea of 10 hours on a plane with a two year old, no toys and no water was awful. Finally, the idea of emigrating the old fashioned way sounded cool, and we could bring more luggage (lots more luggage) which saved having to air freight things.
posted by j @ 8:06 AM
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