Together in the UK. Valentine’s Day.

As followers of my blog will know my partner is a musician on a cruise ship with his band Funky Blue. We say ‘goodbye’ a lot ‘Standing on the Docks in Southampton’ (Lennon and McCartney) and ‘Hello’ in lots of different countries as I travel the world to be with him. This year has seen a huge change in our lives. We flew back from Cuba in March and have been together 24/7 ever since. I’ve missed the travelling, but loved having him around.

Wherever we are in the world, together or apart, this is our song- the iconic Mr Louis Armstrong with All the Time in the World.

Funky Blue on tour.

We had a fabulous, fun filled day shooting this.

Filming on the Board Walk in Bridgetown Barbados

Philipsburg, St. Maarten.

Pleasure and vice-/ crime and retribution in Philipsburg St Maarten, our next Caribbean Island.

Bars, restaurants, churches and courthouses, Philibsburg.

Philipsburg is also the commercial centre of this Dutch and French island with duty-free and sales-tax-free stores in the mile-long commercial district. More temptation…!

Welcome to the Roaring Twenties

The twenties were seen in with style by the fabulous Funky Blue on Fred Olsen’s ship The Braemar.

‘And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Hello in Antwerp!

So this weekend Antwerp, situated in the Flemish region of Belgium, was our meeting point.

I arrived by Eurostar: https://www.eurostar.com/uk-en via Brussels into the magnificent Antwerp Central station.

and The Braemar sailed in up the River Scheldt

Our overnight stay this time was at the Astoria Hotel on the Diamond Quarter:

https://astoria-antwerp.com

Breakfast was here:

Antwerp is all about the chocolate and the diamonds:

All too soon it was goodbye, the Braemar off to Amsterdam https://www.fredolsencruises.com/cruise/city-break-in-the-netherlands-belgium-m1921

Me back to the South Coast:

Bitter sweet.

Our hello and goodbye stop. Scrambled egg breakfast hello. Coffee and cake goodbye. Today was goodbye. #cruiseshipmusician #Funkyblueband #fredolsenbraemar