Hard to believe that two weeks have passed but I have been having lots of fun on the 10th Unlock the Past genealogy cruise touring round New Zealand and across to Sydney and then on to Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle. While in New Zealand I went technology free, my annual rest period from social media, but we are now back in Australian waters and I have turned the wi fi back on.
Since the last Diary I have flown to Auckland, New Zealand
and spent two nights at the Kiwi International Hotel, sightseeing on Auckland
Harbour and taking the ferry over to Devonport. In future I think we need to
ask where others are staying as I found out afterwards that another
geneablogger and Facebook friend was also at the Kiwi International.
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| Celebrity Solstice at Tauranga, New Zealand |
It has been good
catching up on Celebrity Solstice with some of the regular cruisers and meeting new cruisers with
some from the UK and the US as well as Australia and New Zealand. I have done a
separate report on Days 1 to 6 and it is on my SHHE Genie Rambles blog site.
Read about the first six days here.
With no online access, I slept better and longer
although that might also have something to do with daylight saving in New Zealand.
Even the sun doesn't get up until 7.15am! I am reading more and not feeling
like I am chasing myself with lots of things to do. So totally relaxed.
Of course the downside is I have no idea of what has been
happening in the geneaworld or what new records are now online. Or what my geneafriends are up to. Hopefully
it won't take me too long to catch up once we are back home.
One thing that has distressed me is the proposed funding cuts to the National Library of Australia and the future of Trove and its ability to keep giving us wonderful content. Read Tim Sherratt's post on #fundTrove for more detail on the funding cuts and how we can voice our concerns.
This update is from a cloudy Melbourne and stay tuned for cruise updates, hopefully from Adelaide in a couple of days time. With a full program of genealogy lectures on sea days it is often hard to find the time to write blog posts too. Until next
time happy searching.
I'd love to have been on that cruise, it would have been magic. Shauna, are you able to get the Internet along the Australian coast without having to pay Sea Princess for the privilege? In May we are on our way to NY via the Suez and will be in Australian waters for the first week, and I hope to continue my UTAS Convict unit on the way. Maybe I'm asking too much??
ReplyDeleteHi Margaret sometimes we had internet access with the wifi and other times not - probably depended on how far from the coast we were and where the nearest connection point was so I would not rely on it too much. Sounds like a great trip coming up.
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