A day of missed dentists and others...

Don't you love getting all worked up about going to the dentist, and then having them cancel 10 minutes before your appointment? It happened to me this morning, I am peeved, annoyed and down right hacked off.

I do not like dentists at all, and I have to psyche myself up for going, then it is cancelled!!

Anyway, I am going diving tonight, CIMA have put on a Scuba diving sampler evening. Quite what Scuba diving has to do with management accountancy I do not know! Still, they are providing an Indian meal afterwards (I hope that the qualification enables their Indian cooking skills to come to the fore...).

Therefore, I will be losing weight while diving (having put on weight attaching the equipment), will lose more weight when I take the equipment off, then put some back on as I ingest just enough indian food for it not to be called "Gluttony".

Fun.

J

Amazing deal on Marco Polo

I get the Travel zoo top 20 travel deals emailed to me each week, and this week, they sent me this.

6 nights on Marco Polo, undoubtably one of the best little ships still in service, going around the Fjords.

It is a shame that we cannot afford it, but it brings a few questions to light. How can Transocean afford to deep discount like this? My personal view is that they can't. However, previous bad reviews on major cruise websites (maybe the reviewers were in the pocket of "other" lines???) have put a lot of people off travelling on Marco.

This is a real shame, because without repeat and new custom, the ship will likely be confined to the sale fate as Regal Empress, who sailed for the last time with passengers on the 14th March (See here for Wikipedia article).

I hope that transocean will soon manage to sort out their customer service, and that Marco Polo has a chance to survive this summer and winter and still be around in 2010, when I might be able to sail on her!

Queen Elizabeth revealed

Well, after much hype and speculation, Queen Elizabeth, Cunards new "liner" has been unveiled. No surprise is that she looks rather similar to Queen Victoria.

This is causing debate on CunardCritic.

Please see the following thread that details how our learned members view the new ship: I'm distinctly underwhelmed - Kindlychap on Cunardcritic.

1000 posts on the new forum

I am proud to say that the new forum is coping well with the change. We have over 1000 new posts there now, and are continuing to gain new members on an almost daily basis.

Come and take a look, and see the renewed CunardCritic! (Click the banner)

Happy st patricks day!

Success!

The conversion went well, we now have New Forum

My thanks go to all the contributors, and the admins on the forum.

Please take a look at the forum, and let me know whether there is anything else you want to see there.

Thanks for reading.

James.

Cunardcritic is changing

Well, the forum is "coming home". since March last year, it has been on invisionfree's webspace. It is now being moved to the cunardcritic webspace, and a shiny new install of IPB 2.3.6 and IP Gallery will be done soon.