Liverpool's still moaning......

First off, Liverpool is a great city with a lot to recommend it , (apart from it's football, but hey, who's perfect?). My brother lives in Liverpool and I've spent many enjoyable weekends there. However I'm getting a little bored about listening to Liverpool City Council moan about cruising.

What's the point of Liverpool?

You may, (or may not), have been reading recently about the growing dispute between Southampton cruise terminal and it's Liverpool rival. If you haven't it's quite simple.
 In a nut shell Liverpool docks want a much larger share of the ex-UK cruising market and to that effect have invested nearly £20,000,000 in improving the Liverpool cruise terminal. The problem is they have largely done this out of public funds. Southampton obviously don't want to give up their share of the cruising market and whats more the Southampton cruise terminals have been mostly if not solely built from money raised by private investors.

Liverpool get go ahead

I can admit when I'm wrong, (I can afford to be big about it as it happens so rarely), and I have to say I really didn't think Liverpool would ever get the go ahead to be used as a turn around port.
I thought there was just too much pressure from Southampton, I didn't think Liverpool council would want to pay back the EU cash grant it was given, I didn't think there'd be enough demand for it and mostly I didn't think the cruise lines would want to.
As I've said though, I was wrong, (mostly).

A Cruise Joke for You

A blonde walks into a travel agents shop and asks for a last minute deal on a cruise ship.
“Certainly Madame” said the travel agent, “we have a fantastic deal on the P&O ship Ventura for just £1199 a person. It’s sailing out of……”
“Nope, that’s far too much; I’m looking for something much cheaper”
“Ok”, said the travel agent, “If I fly you to Malaga we could put you on a Royal Caribbean ship for just……”
“Oh no”, said the blonde, “I don’t want to fly; it has to be sailing from the UK”.
“Hmmm, well in that case,” said the travel agent, “we’ve currently got a great deal with Fred Olsen, sailing from Liverpool for ju………
“Err, no! I don’t want to have to sail from Liverpool, I wanted Southampton!”
With this final demand, the travel agent, losing his temper, picked the blonde woman up, shoves her in a giant inflatable ring and throws her in the river, (which was conveniently located just behind his shop).
The blonde spends several hours serenely floating down river, before arriving at some rapids where she is bumped, bounced, thrown around and generally soaked through. Arriving at a relatively calm patch of water she pulls up along side another blonde in a similar inflatable rubber ring.
“Wow, it’s a bit choppy isn’t it?”
“Yes”, replied the second blonde, “It was just like this when I came last year as well”.


Happy Cruising

Child of the 80's

Looking back over my posts for the last couple of weeks and I've noticed there's a bit of a theme developing of me getting on my soap box and moaning, whether it be about Liverpool cruise terminal, Windstar cruises or Princess cruises out of the UK.
Well no more!
Tonight I'm going for something a little more light hearted.
It all came about chatting to a past passenger of mine who was reminiscing about the now gone QE2. She made the comment
"you know you were born in the sixties when you always dreamt about booking a cruise onboard the QE2".
Well I'm afraid I wasn't born in the sixties, I'm a child of the 80s so just for a bit of fun for all the rest of you out there.........