Category: Luxury Nile Cruise

Writing this in midflight about half way between Manchester and Luxor. Also writing it with my thumb as I’m eating my breakfast of omlette, sausage, beans and has h brownies. Yum! Flight has been pretty smooth till about 5 mins ago and now…it isn’t. Ah well I’m sure it will settle down in a moment or two.

Flight is pretty full but not completely and there are a few spare seats here and there. Barbara has slept most of the way up to know. Which is not a surprise as she falls asleep on the 2 minute journey to Tesco’s.

Using the iPhone WordPress app. to write this which is really good and allows you to add photos, etc.

Speaking of which you will find a nice picture of Barbara’s breakfast. (one for all the airline goodies out there).

I’ll have to wait until we land before I can post this up, but it’s a good way to fill in time whist flying. Better stop now as I have a small bottle of red wine to finish. (What??? At 1057 in the morning?). Yep!!

Sat at Manchester Airport. It’s 07.11 and we’ve been up since 4.00 to get to the airport. Our eldest daughter Sophie kindly drove us to the airport and has promised to pick us up again (which is handy!). Flying with Monarch at 9.00 and should be in Luxor around 4 local time. Getting through security was really quick and easy even though it was quite busy. Seems to have changed since last time I was here. If you get to security and realise you need a clear bag for any gels or liquids they have machines selling them right at the security point. You need pound coins though. Manchester airport looks pretty nice now as they seem to have redeveloped Terminal one departures completely. Can’t find a book that interests me enough to buy so I’ll be spending my flight tome catching up on the various podcast on my iPhone which I’m using at the moment to blog this. What a fabulous gadget an iPhone is.

This is the itinerary of our forthcoming Nile Cruise and Cairo fact-finding trip departing next Monday the 23rd of November.

Monday 23rd:    Manchester - Luxor flight with Monarch Airlines.  Transfer to Royal Viking Nile cruise ship.          

Tuesday 24th:    Nile Cruise ship itinerary plus the opportunity to visit as many other ships as we can. Continue reading “Our Nile Cruise and Cairo Fact-finding Trip”

We’ve created a couple of cartoon images to use on the Nile Cruise 4u blog for Barbara and Colin.

We used Tattooons website to create them which took about 10 minutes.

Here’s the result.  Guess which is Barbara…

Having inadvertently run up an enormous iPhone bill in Spain last week 02’s Customer Care Department were so helpful I have nothing but praise for the them.

I travelled to Majorca last week for 2 days and used my iPhone to access the web without realising the enormous costs I was racking up.  The default setting on my iPhone meant that I was accessing the local provider and as such I was using a facility that was costing me a fortune.

You can imagine my horror when I received the bill this morning for £444 instead of my usual monthly fee of £44. Continue reading “02’s Customer Care Department are great!!”