Thursday, May 30th
Another dreary day here in Bordeaux with little showers passing by all day long. I did get go ashore at 2:30 for an hour or so but started looking ominous so headed back. We are very lucky as our side of the ship is facing the city so we can watch everyone stroll by on foot, bikes, cars, or the tram. We are not sailing until 11pm. We have a sea day tomorrow and will be entering the English Channel tomorrow afternoon or evening. Our next port is Honfleur, France. It is in northern France on the English Channel and closest port to Paris. There are a couple tours offered to Paris but they are 9 hour tours. We have been to Paris, and frankly, don't care if we ever go back. Parisians are borderline obnoxious. Our experience anyway! It is the last day of the cruise so just doing a short tour so we can finish packing.
Regent has been making a lot of changes lately. Unfortunately, none are good for those of us who have cruised on Regent multiple times and have been their best customers. It all started back in 2011 when they discontinued world cruises. Our 2010 world cruise was the last one. Now it seems the "bean counters" at Regent are making numerous cuts in the name of cost savings. Seems they are saying to hell with us. All they want are segment cruisers. Mr Del Rio, chairman of Regent Cruises, is on the Voyager now. There is a committee of seven long time passengers who signed a letter to the general manager requesting a meeting with Mr Del Rio to discuss some issues and try to find out what is going on. This meeting will be at 7pm today. I will be attending this meeting. It should be interesting!
Jane, our stewardess, brought the two suitcases we had in their storage room back to us today. I have folded my shirts already so tomorrow we start packing. Where has the 78 days gone?? Actually 76 as have two more. We have been to 23 countries and stopped in 51 ports. I would have to say the month we spent in the Middle East was the most interesting.
Not many photos today. In fact the ones I have I took last night.
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Another dreary day here in Bordeaux with little showers passing by all day long. I did get go ashore at 2:30 for an hour or so but started looking ominous so headed back. We are very lucky as our side of the ship is facing the city so we can watch everyone stroll by on foot, bikes, cars, or the tram. We are not sailing until 11pm. We have a sea day tomorrow and will be entering the English Channel tomorrow afternoon or evening. Our next port is Honfleur, France. It is in northern France on the English Channel and closest port to Paris. There are a couple tours offered to Paris but they are 9 hour tours. We have been to Paris, and frankly, don't care if we ever go back. Parisians are borderline obnoxious. Our experience anyway! It is the last day of the cruise so just doing a short tour so we can finish packing.
Regent has been making a lot of changes lately. Unfortunately, none are good for those of us who have cruised on Regent multiple times and have been their best customers. It all started back in 2011 when they discontinued world cruises. Our 2010 world cruise was the last one. Now it seems the "bean counters" at Regent are making numerous cuts in the name of cost savings. Seems they are saying to hell with us. All they want are segment cruisers. Mr Del Rio, chairman of Regent Cruises, is on the Voyager now. There is a committee of seven long time passengers who signed a letter to the general manager requesting a meeting with Mr Del Rio to discuss some issues and try to find out what is going on. This meeting will be at 7pm today. I will be attending this meeting. It should be interesting!
Jane, our stewardess, brought the two suitcases we had in their storage room back to us today. I have folded my shirts already so tomorrow we start packing. Where has the 78 days gone?? Actually 76 as have two more. We have been to 23 countries and stopped in 51 ports. I would have to say the month we spent in the Middle East was the most interesting.
Not many photos today. In fact the ones I have I took last night.
Cut & paste to your browser to view photos.
https://goo.gl/photos/57AWADGga7P4fjwX7
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