African Queen Blog

We celebrate New Year on the African Queen as a social gathering  …….. we eat, we drink, we sing, we dance and we watch fireworks to mark the incoming year !!

Our celebration starts from 5:00pm on New Years Eve with a complementary glass of BUBBLY!!

Maureen & Richard Evens from Newbury enjoying their glass of BUBBLY !!

Steve & Francine from London

Dianne & John Summerill came all the way from the Cynon Valley ………… a famous former coal mining valley with in the South Wales ‘Valley of Wales’

Steve & Francine with Roy & Yvette Eastwood,  they came as a foursome.

Val & Gwen Harris friends of Dianne & John ……….  also come from the Cynon Valley

Dinner is served!

After dinner QUIZ!!

Those brains seem to be working overtime!!

From left to right ………. Val, Maureen & Francine 

John & Roy

Richard & Steve think the quiz is a joke

Dianne and Gwen ………. Yvette has been elected to fill in the answers

Winners of the Quiz ………. Yvette,  Richard  & Steve, including

Dianne and Gwyn.

Val  ………..‘Maureen singing with the microphone’  & Francine on the left

Steve with the microphone ……..

All singing together

Bobby our sound engineer

Bobby selecting ‘shipmates’ requests

Cherrie assisting Bobby 

Dianne with the microphone!!

John singing for Wales!!

My, My, My, Delila ……. Why, Why, Why ……. Delila ………..

And the singing goes on ……..

Val & Gwyn having a dance!!

Dianne & John on the dance floor

Maureen & Andy

Val ……… the dancing queen

Shipmates posing between tunes!!

Dancing the night away ……….

Roy & Yvette Eastwood from London

Francine & Steve

Ladies on the dance floor

Ladies having FUN

The New Year comes, the Old Year goes,

Should old  aquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind

Should old aquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne

For auld lang syne my dear, for auld lang syne

We’ll take a cup O’ kindness yet, for the sake of auld lang syne.

Blow The Cobwebs Away Cruise ……….

On New Years Day!!

Weather was good to us

Goodbye 2011 ……. Hello 2012

Back on the African Queen Mooring

Andy & Bonny wish everybody a Blessed New Year