The travel adventures of Mark & Vanessa Greatorex
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…
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 promise I’m not going to start this post off with another rant about UniWorld – I’ll save that for the next post. Instead I’d like to dedicate this rant to the idiot who left his camera resting on the autofocus button overnight, meaning the freshly charged batteries that had been inserted the day before…
Fair warning: from now on it’s going to seem like I’m starting every post with a gripe about UniWorld, and I don’t want to give the wrong impression – we’ve had a great time overall and have loved cruising the River Rhône, it’s just that the gloss has started to wear off and some of…
If this morning’s heat wasn’t bad enough, by the time the afternoon rolled around the conditions were almost unbearable. To complicate things, the SS Catherine, despite all her beautiful decor and million dollar art collection, was totally unsuited to travel in these conditions – the air conditioning in the public areas of the ship was…
In the first installment of this diary entry, I told you about Pierre, our tour guide for the morning, and his amazing story. For this next part, I’ll focus on Viviers, the beautiful village that Pierre is so passionate about. My day actually began with a short trip off the ship to capture some shots…
We are in the midst of a series of very hot, sunny days at the moment, which makes it a bit more difficult than usual to get to some of these beautiful villages along the Rhône. For starters, they’re usually at the end of steep climb, up high above the river on top of the…
There is not a great deal to say about today really, but there were a few interesting things. The main emphasis was on the heat – temperatures were well into the high 20s as we sat down to breakfast today and by the time we made it out to the buses for our morning tour…
Our ship cruised through to Mâcon overnight, docking at a round midnight, and our morning view from our balcony window was of a lovely sunrise over the city. Looking to the north from our mooring spot we could see the Pont Saint-Lauren, an 11th century stone bridge across the Saône built at the site of…