Peter's Travel Blog

This morning we woke late, after another full evening’s quizzing and socialising in Scott’s Bar, and being entertained by Mel Harvey’s comedy/magic act in the Marco Polo Lounge, which we enjoyed very much.   Because we were late up, we missed breakfast, settling for cups of tea and coffee and a stroll around the ship. Conditions have now improved to...

It’s Friday, and we’re back out to sea. The good news is; things are now much calmer.   Yesterday morning, Tracey and I took a walk into La Caruna. We couldn’t go far because we only had until lunchtime, so we strolled around the harbour to a little fort there, which, despite its small size, turned out to be quite...

I’m almost certain La Caruna is a lovely, typically North-west, Spanish port, when viewed under the right conditions. Today, battered by heavy winds and hail-storms, it looked suspiciously like Whitby on a cold, wet winter’s day (only not quite so attractive).   It being Christmas Day, we took our time emerging into the daylight. We missed breakfast but made lunch...

It’s been a bit of a mad 24 hours. The weather didn’t improve much at all – in fact, it deteriorated rather spectacularly. There have been so many weather-related incidents that I couldn’t possibly catalogue them all here, suffice to say that we’ve been tossed around the waves like lettuce in a salad, and folks flying out of chairs has...

Do you remember the film ‘Poltergeist’? When the investigators open the door to the little girl’s room, and everything is flying about? Well that pretty much sums up what it was like here last night.   All through the long, dark night, our wardrobe doors kept flying open, and objects were flying across the cabin. I say long ‘dark’ night,...