2020 - the year of no cruises

 We had two cruises booked for this year, a September cruise and a Christmas cruise. The September one was cancelled months ago and our Christmas cruise was officially cancelled a few weeks ago. We had only paid a $6 deposit for the September cruise but our December cruise was much more. Fingers crossed we get this back in the coming weeks! Celebrity asked what we preferred a future cruise credit or a refund, we opted for the refund. We just don't know when or if we will cruise again so would just prefer to get our money back. There is also the chance that cruise companies will go broke so you'll never get your cruise or your money. 

Seeing as we couldn't go on our September cruise which was to celebrate a birthday we looked at what else we could do. We settle on Cairns in far North Qld, catching the train up and flying back - this didn't happen either. Border bubble put a stop to that. Plan C - Yamba. We could all get there without worry about any border crossings (but you never know when things change!). We booked a lovely unit through Airbnb and crossed our fingers that nothing would change as there was no refund allowed.

Happy days, we made it to Yamba and had a lovely 5 days. The unit was just what we needed, overlooking the ocean so it felt like we were on our cruise when we sat on our patio and in our loungeroom looking out the window! Gorgeous spot and we hope to be able to get back there one day. Sadly it was already booked out over Christmas, not surprisingly! We saw so many whales and dolphins, what a treat sipping your tea while whale watching. The weather gods were kind to us even though we were a bit worried on the day we arrived as it was VERY windy,, thankfully the wind eased over night,

We now need to decide what we are going to do for Christmas with Covid spoiling our plans!! It's very hard to plan anything when there is a pandemic so we will most likely just have it in Port Mac. We just need to find someone who's willing to cook all our meals for us, that's what we were really looking forward to on the cruise!! Oh well I'll just have to start making dinner reservations around town.