Arcadia alongside her berth at Nagasaki - Japan.
Tour coaches lined up and ready to go.
Marian and Graham - always the first ashore to see that all is in order for our passengers, pictured here with our local tour agent.
Wherever you go in the world, be it on a Grand Voyage or Round World Cruise - your world with P&O Cruises goes with you.
The port of Nagasaki was flying the flags of WELCOME for ARCADIA.
Arcadia 'at home' in her Japanese Tree Garden!Good Day Everyone,
After a windy night Arcadia arrived alongside her berth at 0730 hours today to a very warm Japanese Welcome. I will post lots more photos after we sail, there is a lot of activity going on today - however pleased to report that all is well.
I had forgotten just how welcome the people make you feel here and a lot of it is with their body language rather than what they say - everyone bows to each other and so on. Beautiful berth here right in the centre of town and everywhere is spotless.
Looking forward to my run ashore mid morning!
More to follow,
James.
'Enjoy the moment'
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6 comments:
Arcadia looks enormous in the first photograph. What a lovely ship she is.
Having read Donald and Barry's report on the P&O Cruise Community site, it sounds a great port and one I'd very much like to visit one day.
I hope you get to spend some time ashore today. It must be hard to visit these wonderful places and not get to see as much of them as you'd like.
We have a large Honda plant here in our town and so a lot of Japanese executives get sent over from Japan. They are the nicest, most polite people, so I can identify with what you say about them as a people.
Is it China next?
Gill
Hi to you all from sunny Perth, did you rug up for your run ashore in chilly Japan.Beautiful photo's you sure dont waste time in posting them. It makes great reading after work if i have had a bad day at work there is one website that cheers up the worst of anyones day. Thank you for the great effort you put into this blog.
Happy cruising, we hope to cruise again next year with P&O depending on the almighty dollar and how many we have saved.
Geoff and Julieta witts Perth
Good morning James,
I was thinking....in just two days time, tomorrow will be yesterday!
This is never so obvious than when reading your blog and I really cannot believe that you have reached Japan already and it is so long since we left the ship in Singapore! Where does the time go?
I see from the photographs so far that you are experiencing cooler temperatures and I can report that snow is forcast (again) over the weekend for the UK!
The way I look at it is that these flakes are just snowmen falling from the sky - they just need assembling!!
Enjoy Japan and let us see those pictuures soon.
Have received your "standard issue" gift from "Q" & am looking forward to getting it to you....watch out for anyone who looks as if they are carrying Milk Tray!
Love to Debby & Bill (D78) & Alison & Brian (Portofino Suite) & of course you James.
"M" & James. xxx
Hi James Loving the blog.Having had the good fortune to cruise with you many times I know what a cosummate professional you are coupled with a heap of FUN.P.O are so lucky to have you doing this blog.It is better reading than any brochure.Hope it increases P.O shares.
Keep it up
Love to all my friends onboard SW
Have just seen on the news that MSC Fantasia was hit by 113kmh winds and came away from her berth in Palma luckily no one was badly hurt, the gangway just dropped into the harbour, and she is 138,000 tonnes just shows you what mother nature can do doesn't it.
Anyway looking forward to more pictures from Japan, i thought you were in Japan on the 6th not the
5th?
Enjoy China.
Geoff Witts Perth
Well a late breakfast today! Don't know what it is, but when OH is working away from home I just can't sleep properly and when he does come home I sleep like a log.
Hope you had a beautiful day in Nagasaki. It's nice to see you guys in your cold weather clothes instead of shirt sleeves!
I really like the last picture of Arcadia, in front of a lovely green area. It does look spotless.
After seeing the you tube footage of the MSC Fantasia in Palma breaking away from it's moorings, I can understand why P & O do not berth sometimes if the sea is too rough or the winds too strong!
Anyway I look forward to your next instalment. Maybe you'll be back to shirt sleeves in the next one :-)
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