Gemma's Cruise Gems

The QE2 was a very popular cruise ship when it was in service with Cunard.  It had its final voyage in November 2008 which I can remember very well. I had so many customers that loved the QE2. So what exactly has happened to the ship? The ship was sold…

This year for me is going so fast.  I can't believe that we are already in July.  At the start of this year I had got so much going on and to look forward to for the year ahead.  My new house was fully built and ready in May and we have…

Britons really seem to have the bug for cruising.  Over 1.7 million of us took a cruise in 2012.  This is also going to keep growing.  After several cruise ship disasters recently you would think that Brits would be thinking more about taking a cruise but we haven't been put…

Crystal cruises will be expanding their theme cruise program for 2014 with six new themes.  The themes will be spread out throughout 2014.  There will be in all 23 voyages on Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity which will feature theme focused enrichment.  Extreme Thrill seekers.  This is Crystal cruises version…

The latest addition to join the Princess fleet will be the Royal Princess with its first taster cruise this Sunday 9th June.  I am off to see the Royal Princess this Saturday and I can't wait. I have never been on a Princess ship before and the Royal Princess certainly…

Last weekend saw the port of Barcelona hit a cruise record. The Spanish port had 17 cruise ships carrying a total of 64,000 passengers over the weekend of 17th, 18th and 19th May.  That certainly is a lot of passengers visiting the city in a short space of time. It started on the…

As you will have seen from previous blogs I am part of Alcester Musical Theatre company and we put on concerts throughout the year but also a main production once a year in October at our local theatre. The weekend just gone I had an audition for our next musical show…