{"id":1417,"date":"2011-06-05T08:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T07:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2011-06-05T08:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T07:56:56","slug":"cruise-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had a day out on the Isle of Wight.  We spent the morning in Ventnor basking in the sun and then had a late lunch at the Four Seasons in Wroxall, I mentioned the pub in <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=773#more-773\">The Holiday<\/a> posting in August of last year.  A slow drive back to Cowes and then boarded the Red Funnel ferry.  Within a 40 minute period we saw 4 cruise ships departing!  I know that Southampton has positioned itself as a premier cruise port but four departures within 40 minutes surely ranks it as the Heathrow of cruise ships!  Here are the ships we saw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/opera.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/opera.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nMSC Opera departing on a 9 day Norwegian Fjords cruise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/eclipse.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/eclipse.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nCelebrity Cruises Eclipse departing on a 15 day Italian Mediterranean cruise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/azura.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/azura.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nP&#038;O Cruises Azura departing on 15 day Baltic Capitals cruise<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/oceana.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/oceana.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nP&#038;O Cruises Oceana departing on an 8 day French &#038; Spanish Break cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had a day out on the Isle of Wight. We spent the morning in Ventnor basking in the sun and then had a late lunch at the Four Seasons in Wroxall, I mentioned the pub in The Holiday posting in August of last year. A slow drive back to Cowes and then boarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}