Category: Magellan

Today, we have been at sea again, and I had a class this afternoon. Following the chaos of the last class, Housekeeping provided us with heavy-duty crowd control barriers. Not only that; they’d pre-arranged the tables more or less exactly how we wanted them (Housekeeping is awesome, and we love them…). Needless to say, the class was far more orderly,...

Today, we arrived at our first port-of-call, Lisbon, in Portugal. Both Tracey and I were on tour escort duty; Tracey went off to ‘The Southern Hills’, while I enjoyed ‘Lisbon City Highlights and Estoril’. I must confess we metaphorically drew straws to see who should do what. In the end, Tracey got the Southern Hills because it featured a few...

This morning, I held my second class; a tonal study where I had everyone painting a picture using only a single colour (Paynes Grey). It came as little surprise, after yesterday’s civilised first class, that today turned out to be slightly chaotic. The problem was a lack of a proper queuing system; people who turned up first were not necessarily...

Our first night at sea was pleasantly calm, and our cabin, although not one of the larger ones, doesn’t feel too cramped, and has a large window instead of a porthole, which always earns extra brownie points in our book. My first class was in the afternoon, at 2:30pm, which meant we didn’t have to crawl out of bed at...

Today, we joined the CMV cruise ship Magellan on its two week voyage to the Mediterranean. We travelled down from North Yorkshire yesterday, staying overnight in a Travelodge near Bristol. Doing that takes some of the pressure off; I’ve had enough near-misses, when I’ve been caught up in stationery traffic, worrying that I’m not going to make it to the...