Last day in Southampton - 24 July

Southampton is a coastal city in Hampshire, with a population over 250,000 (more than 40,000 of whom are students). It has a very strong higher education sector, with 2 universities. It is also the only English city without a Cathedral. Jane Austen lived here for a number of years and it was Benny Hill's home town.

The city suffered substantial damage from German bombing during WW2 with significant property damage and 641 killed. It is average on the socio economic scale and evidences quite few a "homeless/beggars" - but very little graffiti.  There is a lot of student accommodation and many post war buildings are not architecturally attractive.

Southampton is an excellent touring base in the south with very good transport links in every direction - although with Tom & Jeanette taking us around we never needed to use them.

Packed up and ready to go after a stroll through the park to the highly rated Docks Coffee House (the best we have had), then checked out and walked to the Royal Princess, only about 300M away. Fortunately we were able to game the system and were on board and lunching in Alfredo's an hour and a half ahead of our designated boarding time.

Easy afternoon with "muster", feet up for a while and then early dinner. 5.45pm is early cruise dining for us, but it is a port intensive cruise. Eight on our table - 2 x US, 2 x UK & 2 x Canada, and seem an ok group. Early live show for an early night and early into Guernsey in the morning.

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  1. Jeanette27 July 2018 at 15:50

    Why the early dinner sitting??? that is usually the time that you are sailing out of ports..Jeanette

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