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Why, suddenly, are we down below £20? That is a 60p plunge from its high point this morning.

Has a ship sunk or something? No one see this coming?

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Ever the optimist, MM!, let’s hope so.

🤞

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If only, mm……..

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Looking at news today, I made the usual good decision to sell my NatWest holding……at around £4 - I bought them at £2.75 so I guess I hound still feel pleased.

Who invented hindsight?

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Hi Topo,

Very well, thanks for asking. Of course, that is a relative term at my age - I nearly said “our”!

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I don’t think tendering affects port fees? But who knows?

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Aha from me, too. As crystal, Bot, thank you!

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Yup, but what is the (1,750)?

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Sorry, Bot you’ll have to explain that for the benefit of this single-brain-cell person.

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Hi Topo,

Nice to see you. I suspect that Cunard and P & O might have the same criteria - waves more than 50 cms high and tendering not on. ‘Elf and Safety, innit? We have missed a number of ports, especially Guernsey!

Santorini uses shore-based boats. Had fun watching them last time! I suspect many might have been too ill to enjoy the place! Celebrity ship also in with same problem,

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Tendering is only a viable proposition for small to medium-sized ships, I think. Thinking about Iona/Arvia sized ships, or bigger, it just ain’t logistically possible to get everyone off in a reasonable time to excursions, let alone those, like us, who usually jut want to mooch. You’d have to use both sides and the crush would be unimaginable!

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K,

We do tend to but an excursion if we’re in a port we haven’t visited before. Otherwise, like you, it’s speciality dining etc, then searching for suitable stuff for family - last time it was giant Toblerones - or a handbag or a watch or something to use up the OBC.

BTW, you know why Toblerone is made that shape?

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Nothing to do with mountains. It’s so it fits in the box. 😁

i am the same age as ken, or will be later this month, but didn't retire until 2012. i think between you’ve had my share as well! like k, we prefer tea (or coffee, in my case) with the occasional glass of wine, or ****tail when on board.

just about to renew passport in view of eu etias/esta.

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Has someone written a new rule - closing CCL price must not exceed £20.

HAGWE,E

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It may not need even that - I see a judge has ordered the release of the “Epstein files”…….

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And the cause of today’s dip (slump) at around 15:00 is?

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I must be one of the few who, like Bot, did notice the new/replacement “Senior Notes”. Actually, a substantial proportion of the o/s debt is unsecured, I believe.

Having said that, if enough was “called in” some assets may have to be sold. But I also think that this whole loans and debt business is not as simple as we might think. We could always ask David Bernstein!

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Very small minority affected, I think, as it’s Seabourn.

I looked at the prices once…………….. that was more than enough!🤣

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Because the CCL on LSE is the old P & O shares, I believe, and known as CUK on NYSE. They don’t have voting rights is tge major difference.

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Bot will correct me, I expect.

Thanks, Bot. Even so, it’ll take a while…. 10 cruises of at least 14 nights?

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