Avalon Luminary River Cruise, Part 5: Belgium

After our usual buffet breakfast we boarded our coaches for a short ride to the city centre of Ghent.

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Avalon Luminary River Cruise, Part 4: Holding Back the Sea

Our trip to Delta Park at Veere, home of one of the engineering wonders of the world that I had seen on the popular TV show Megastructures, was inspiring.

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Avalon Luminary River Cruise, Part 3: Tulip Gardens

After visiting the windmills of Kinderdijk we returned to Avalon Luminary for lunch.

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Avalon Luminary river cruise, Part 2

On boarding Avalon Luminary we were welcomed by the captain and crew then offered cocktails.

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I have just returned from a seven night Avalon Waterways river cruise on board Avalon Luminary through Holland at the start of the tulip season.

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QM2 – An English Restaurant?

Sometimes the English language is just too complicated. Cunard is a very English sort of shipping line (and certainly not a mere cruise line).

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QM2 Down Under: Day 2 Pub Grub with a Queen

For some passengers the most British element of a QM2 cruise is the dulcet tones of the Commodore giving us the ship’s noonday position.

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QM2 Down Under: Day 2, Morning

Imagine a restaurant that can serve 1,100 main courses in 30 minutes.

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