Peter's Travel Blog

Today, I ran 3 classes back to back. It was tiring, and intensive, and transitions from one class to another were hectic to say the least. It was ‘The Building Blocks of Watercolour’, where I introduce folks to the basic washes that make up all watercolour paintings and get them to create a simple landscape from a wet-in-wet wash and several...

It’s been a busy day today. From 9:30am until 11:30am and again from 2pm until 4pm, was an opportunity for passengers to meet their resident Craft Lecturers (that’ll be Peter-the-Wood, Linda-the-Jewellery and myself, Peter-the-Painter, then), see what we all have to offer, and, where necessary, sign up for places on our workshops. Three tables were placed in the lobby, near...

It was a rough night last night. As soon as we’d left the relative calm of the Thames Estuary, the wind picked up and things started rockin’ and a’ Rollin’.   I got talked into having dinner in the Waldorf Restaurant with the other guest tutors and lecturers. I have to confess, it’s not my favourite place to eat; I...

Today, we arrived back in Tilbury. All the passengers left the Marco Polo to make way for a whole new bunch. Doing a back-to-back like this is a new experience for me; in the matter of only a few hours, the entire ship would take on a fresh new personality. In the past, I’ve always left the ship along with...