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Just noticed that cruise, Britannia 10-Year Anniversary Celebration, 14 Nights (B514). The interesting thing about this cruise is the course that it is taking which is obviously a new concept - Southampton to Edinburgh is OVERLAND!

What is even more worrying is that if it keeps to that track then Britannia will be passing right through my garden!!
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Good old P&O. Perhaps they’re trying go one up from Saga with their door to door pick up service :lol:

It’ll save you travelling down to Southampton David.
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Depending on how many pick up points there are I think the journey could be quite scenic once having crossed from England into Scotland.

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We can get the bus to Keswick and pick it up there.
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Living in Shropshire our choice for the bus would be Liverpool or Southampton…I would definitely be going to Southampton cus I’m certainly not missing out on the first leg of the cruise. :think: :? :)

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Passes just West of us too. Maybe a nice day out to wave to her.

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I think you are all being rather silly.
No-one has said how she will get up and down all the hills. :thumbup:
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Ray B wrote: 28 Jan 2025, 19:03
I think you are all being rather silly.
No-one has said how she will get up and down all the hills. :thumbup:
With a couple of 'tugs' should get her there :thumbup:

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Ray B wrote: 28 Jan 2025, 19:03
I think you are all being rather silly.
No-one has said how she will get up and down all the hills. :thumbup:
Clearly the route will use the canals and rivers and the locks will overcome the ups and downs.
I wonder if it will overnight in Gas Street basin in Brum ?

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allatc wrote: 28 Jan 2025, 21:18
Ray B wrote: 28 Jan 2025, 19:03
I think you are all being rather silly.
No-one has said how she will get up and down all the hills. :thumbup:
Clearly the route will use the canals and rivers and the locks will overcome the ups and downs.
I wonder if it will overnight in Gas Street basin in Brum ?
:) :clap:

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allatc wrote: 28 Jan 2025, 21:18
Ray B wrote: 28 Jan 2025, 19:03
I think you are all being rather silly.
No-one has said how she will get up and down all the hills. :thumbup:
Clearly the route will use the canals and rivers and the locks will overcome the ups and downs.
I wonder if it will overnight in Gas Street basin in Brum ?


Not if it wants to keep its propellers :)

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It can come down the Caldon Canal. It's not more than 7 feet wide is it?

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Mervyn and Trish wrote: 30 Jan 2025, 12:23
It can come down the Caldon Canal. It's not more than 7 feet wide is it?
It might be a bit of a squeeze but deploying the stabilisers might help :think:

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Mervyn's just hoping to get his canal dredged out on the cheap. Nice try though. :thumbup:
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Damn. Spotted.

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Oh, you’ve been building a dam as well on the quiet.

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We call them ‘locks’ in this neck of the woods.

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It's that flat in Essex they won't have heard of such things :lol:
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Onelife wrote: 31 Jan 2025, 09:42
We call them ‘locks’ in this neck of the woods.

And I bet your a dab and at picking them.

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oldbluefox wrote: 31 Jan 2025, 10:07
It's that flat in Essex they won't have heard of such things :lol:

We have mansions around here not flats.

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