Peter's Travel Blog

Today was our final day at sea. This morning I gave my last class, which wasn’t quite as oversubscribed as I’d feared (in fact, it was the same number as I’ve been getting in a morning session), mostly, I suspect, because the ‘Today’ Programme advertised it as a ‘finishing off’ session, which it wasn’t. It was, in fact, a lesson...

Today, we arrived at our last port-of-call before home; Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. I think it’s fair to say that over the years, after many repeated visits, we’ve seen most of what Lisbon has to offer (or, at least everything that we’re interested in). Our plans for the day, then – such as they were – were very modest,...