Peter's Travel Blog

It’s been a long, occasionally arduous, month, with many sea days and classes, a few minor ups and downs, and now a rather persistent, and particularly virulent, stinking cold. On the first of our final three days at sea, I woke up without any voice at all. Fortunately, Tracey stepped in and did an excellent job of helping me in...

Our return journey took six days. Christmas Day fell upon our first sea-day, and was, essentially, a working day, with a class in the morning and the afternoon, as per any other day not in port. As such, it didn’t really feel that Christmassy. Christmas Dinner had been planned out like a military campaign, with guests being allocated seats at...

Today we arrived at our final Caribbean port-of-call for this trip; Castries on the island of St. Lucia. We’ve been here many times before, but the final stop was always going to be a beach day, so that’s what we did. The walk to Vigie Beach takes about 30 minutes, tops; it’s an easy walk from the cruise terminal, along...