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Weds 13 August We board CX165 also about an hour late. We were unable to change our seats at all on this leg, and we had middle seats at the front of the J cabin. Very efficient services from the FAs with OWE greetings and trying to take our orders for dinner and brekky on their iPad. Mr Katie...

Tues 12 August I slept pretty well through the flight and felt up to some brekky before our 5pm arrival! It's not just Qantas who do it! The pancakes were good, not sure I ate much else. After landing in HKG, I was amused to see we were still 46km away. It felt like we taxied for 46km to...

Monday 11 August I arrive in Zurich by about 10:30 or so and eventually manage to store my luggage in 3 different lockers. All the XL and XXL lockers (for my big red suitcase) were taken, well, all of those at the bottom. There was one in the middle height section, which meant lifting the...

Catching up on Mr Katie So, back to Mr Katie's adventures. Sat 2 August - they stayed at the Novotel in Ypres. Walking distance from the Menin Gate, only street parking available. Sun 3 August - off to Oudenaarde; they stayed at the Leopold Hotel for 1 night and started working on completing...

Wow. Email received at 12:40pm saying the SCs will be moved into this year. And they're in my account, just checked at 12:50pm. Day 1 of my status year and I'm on 250 thanks to PCP and the SC gift!

I contacted QF through the website today asking if the 150 SCs could be credited to me this year (my status year starts today) as they were useless to me in my last status year.

I was one leaf short of Green tier yesterday, and my year finished. Can't remember what I needed, but it was doable, I think. I didn't need the SCs, but maybe they'd have helped me think LT WP was possible before I turn 95. Now into the new year with one leaf.

Monday 11 August, Disembarkation day 😭 We woke to a beautiful day in Basel. And another industrial dock. Apparently, the harbour/river/dock bosses in Basel are quite thingy about where and when you can moor. We had brekky, hung around a little, and waited for our taxi. We had to disembark...

Yes, it's still Sunday, 10 August After chatting with Heidi and her friend, I walked back to the boat. It was lunchtime, so I went down to the restaurant and sat by myself. Not many people had stayed back. There were two half-day excursions; can't remember what the morning one was, maybe to...

Sunday 10 August, cont. On my walk back to the boat, I enjoyed my lemon and something else gelato - refreshing on what was becoming a hotter and hotter day. I walked past two young women with a chocolate lab, who I'd seen on the walk into town. I finished my gelato while on the footpath by...

Sunday 10 August About a month before the cruise, the cruise details suddenly changed in the Ama Waterways app. It listed our cruise as finishing in Breisach in Germany, rather than Basel in Switzerland. This set off a bunch of cruisers, worried about making their connections to flights from...

Saturday 9 August, lunch and beyond What a relief to get into the air con of the bus for the maybe 20 min ride back to the dock. Had to pull the curtains a bit to try to stop the sun beating in - one of these days (Thu or Fri maybe) I was silly and turned off the air con in our room while we...

Saturday 9 August, Strasbourg Time to pop into France! Another industrial dock and bus ride into town. Duckies! Fountain on the edge of the old town, with a slightly different view on each side. It looks old, but it's relatively new (no more than 20-30 years old) Our guide took us into...

Fri 8 August, Chain de Rotisseurs dinner cont. On this night, I had the full suggested meal, as suggested. After dinner, in our room we found another exciting gift! Three skeins of hand-dyed yarn; one from Skein Sisters in Sydney, one from Cabin Boys in Ontario (they dye with...

Friday 8 August, more Heidelberg One of the constructions for the English princess The bus took us down to the town and we had 45-60 mins free to explore. It was quite warm and the town was full of tourists. I wandered around, stopping at a Starbucks for a drink, dry cake from the cabinet and...

Fri 8 August - Heidelberg/Speyer (Now that this TR is almost over, should I make the photos larger or keep sizing them down????) I wasn't in the QF FLounge, but decided to try the Eggs Benny. I enjoyed them, but the muffins were barely toasted. :/ Probably the worst picture of a kilometre...

Thurs 7 August Dinner und Kaffee Ach du lieber, endlich Wienerschnitzel or as they wrote, "Schnitzel Viennese Style" :D And we're in Rheingau, so some wines from the winery/cellar that we visited today. For a change, I started with the Rancher salad Then of course the Wienerschnitzel and...

Thurs 7 August lunch and so on Our shopping time in the Popup Stores was limited, I think Friday was their last day of trade. I wandered by again to squish the pretty yarns. I really liked this shirt sample, but the variegated blue yarn was all sold out - can't delay around all these North...

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Thursday 7 August I woke and peeked out the window at just the right time; we were passing Koblenz and Deutsches Eck (German corner). This is where the Rhine and Moselle meet. I stopped by here with some friends in early 1998 on our way home from Luxembourg for the weekend. So of course...