Category: Spirit of Discovery

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,...

You know it’s a slow day at sea when the birders can’t agree on whether the small bird seen fltting around the balconies and the Promenade was a Grey-tailed Wagtail or a Warbler. I blame it on the Captain telling us that we’d be passing through the Strait of Gibraltar at 9am, raising expectations of an increase of oceanic wildlife....