The travel adventures of Mark & Vanessa Greatorex
So we’ve received the following letter from Uniworld regarding the complaints we had about our recent trip on the SS Catherine, and I thought I’d step through each response; or non-response as the case may be; and add some notes (in red) of my own: Dear Mr Greatorex, Thank you for taking the time to…
I’ve waited a little while before writing this post, as I wanted to let the dust settle on a few issues before collecting my thoughts. It’s no secret that whilst we had an enjoyable time overall on our recent river cruise through Burgundy and Provence, there were a number of issues along the way that…
So the age-old question, one that I reckon I’ve answered a hundred times since getting home. “How was your trip”?The answer? Really good. Not great, not awesome, not life-changing, but really good. Let me explain. What we loved: Paris What a beautiful city. OK, so it has its problems (which we’ll get to later), but…
Our last day started with a mercy dash back to Montmartre to pick up a couple of metres of the van Gogh print material that we’d seen earlier in the trip. In the ensuing time since our first visit, we’d been thinking about all of the possible uses we could put it to and had…
After setting off from the Musée d’Orsay just before lunch, we made our way from Place de la Concorde along Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré towards Boulevard Haussmann. This is one of the more magnificent streets in Paris, suitable for those with large bank balances and expensive tastes, as you pass by stores with names such…
It hadn’t been a great night for us – the air conditioner in our room, which hadn’t been great to start with, packed it in completely around 1 o’clock in the morning and the room became very stuffy. Eventually we were forced to open the window, and although it faced onto a quiet street, in…
Our morning started with a huge breakfast at Antichambre, where Jeanluc cooked us up a treat of local delicacies. The previous afternoon when he’d asked us what we didn’t like to eat at breakfast, I said mushrooms and he accepted that, but when Vanessa said fish, he looked astounded. “You don’t like fish?” he asked,…
As is generally the case on any holiday, I reach a point where the tiredness kicks in and the overwhelming number of photographs I have to process outweighs the amount of spare time I have at the end of the day. So I have to confess that we are now back home in Melbourne, and…
The final day of our cruise had arrived, and the ship was busy with people coming and going as passengers disembarked and were ferried to the stations or the airports depending on the next leg of their journey. For us, we were catching a train to Nimes, and because our departure time wasn’t until 11:00…
I promised last post that I would have another serve for UniWorld, and believe me, it’s coming, but first I should set the scene as to what our planned activities were for our last afternoon on our cruise. After returning to the ship for lunch, we made our way back out into the humid afternoon…