2024 – Retirement Year

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We finally agreed that 2024 would be the year we jacked it all in

Come the end of 2024 it was hoped that we would both be able to get up at 6 0’clock in the morning and drive really slow so everyone else is late for work. In retrospect post Covid there probably aren’t that many people who drive to work in the morning. Anyway, the plan was to retire: Remove Outlook from our computers, ditch Powerpoint and quit LinkedIn [maybe]!. And so we started to plan our retirement cruises. Our first (pre-retirement) would be to cruise the Caribbean and sail back to Southampton while the second (post retirement) would be to cruise the Canaries, back to Southampton then stay on and cruise to the Caribbean. Next stop therefore was the P&O Sales Desk 🙂

We spoke ever so nicely to the lady from P&O who was able to help us find our ideal suite (with a Butler of course, Tubbs could no longer consider cruising life without a Butler) which gave us 2-weeks island hopping followed by 2-weeks, starting in the Caribbean, and then, sailing back across the [vast] Atlantic back to Southampton via the Azores. 

Podge and Tubbs were happy with their choice. Then, about 4-weeks later, Podge (with his scheming head) realised that the cruise before the ones we’d booked actually coincided with our 10th Wedding Anniversary. A quick furtive look on the P&O website revealed that the suite we had already booked was still available for the cruise before. 

So, Podge plied Tubbs with many glasses of Bacchus before suggesting that perhaps we should book the extra cruise so that we are on board for our Wedding Anniversary while pointing out that we could have the same suite (and butler) throughout. Tubbs relented and agreed and less than 10 minutes later, the third cruise was booked: Podge was happy, Tubbs was still wondering what she had agreed to and another bottle was brought out. Fortunately, the next day both Podge and Tubbs were happy that we now had a 6-week pre-retirement cruise (5-weeks in the Caribbean and 1-week sailing home – how decadent). 

Feb – Apr 2024

#50, #51, #52 – P&O – Britannia

(Captain – Patrick Maguire)

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TBA – TBA 2024

#53 – P&O – Britannia

(Captain – ???)

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  • Southampton
  • Madeira
  • La Palma
  • Tenerife
  • Gran Canaria
  • Lanzarote
  • Cadiz
  • Lisbon
  • Southampton

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