We went to Southampton today. In particular we wanted to look at some stuff in John Lewis, after that I had a bit of spare time so I went and had a browse around waterstones. There are a few books that I’d love to read, but I have more than enough to get on with.
After that, we went on to Ikea, where we followed the well worn path. We were looking for some other stuff there, but ouur main interest strangely enough was wardrobes. Until, that is, we reached the restaurant, where it being time for a bit of lunch I indulged in a few sweedish meatbballs and some chips, and very nice they were as well.
From there we went to costcos where we did a little bit of shopping, and as a snack we had one of their hotdogs. We had to because they are proper hotdogs, done simply, but very, very well, and at an incredibly reasonable price.
Going back to the early part of the day, we came to Southampton via the Hamble Toll Bridge, which is always interesting, as it is our first opportunity to see if there were any cruise ships in. Well, as it happens there were at least three of them, what we thought might be a P&O, another were fairly sure was a Royal Caribbean another, from the funnel might be a Cunard. Regardless of the line, it’s always nice to see them.
Turns out, it was P&O’s newest ship, the Arvia, currently on it’s way down the English Channel about to cross the Bay of Biscay, a notorious piece of water, heading for Coruna in Northern Spain.
The Royal Caribbean Ship was the Anthem of the Seas. When she was in port, we could see bubble on the end of the arm was extended, it must have been a heck of a view from up there. Anthem is (at the time of writing) heading toward Bergen.
The third ship we could see was Cunard’s Queen Anne, heading towards Hamburg.
There was a fourth ship, The Norweigan Prima, she’s presently heading towards Zeebrugge. I haven’t been there for quite a few years.
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