Category: Cruises

Today has been a somewhat isolated, single sea-day, sandwiched between yesterday’s visit to Syracuse and what will be a 5-day back-to-back port marathon starting from tomorrow. A day to take a little breather before a relentless on-the-ship-off-the-ship kicks off, which we’re looking forward to. Even the craft tutor this afternoon, as we passed her in the corridor, punched the air...

We were late starting this morning, thanks to the chef’s meeting running over. They meet every morning from about 8:30 and are usually finished by about 8:45, so up until now it hasn’t been a problem. Today, however, the head chef was delivering what sounded like lots of very stern words to his troops, right through until 9:15am, by which...

We’ve been back at sea today, which meant being up at 7:30am for breakfast and preparation for the classes. It’s the first of two back-to-back classes on trees, today being the winter variety. At lunchtime, paella was being served in the Lido. We don’t really fancy eating there, though, mostly because its quite noisy, preferring to dine in the Grill....