Peter's Travel Blog

Today was our first day at sea; the weather was pleasant with only the merest of breezes, and the Mediterranean was calm. It makes a change to be at sea on a Sunday and not in a port town, pottering around, wondering what it would look like with people.   This is clearly a busy by-way for ships; we’ve seen...

We arose early and headed for Almeria, approximately an hour’s drive from where Tracey’s parents live. The morning was cool but pleasant – a far cry from the heavy rainstorms of the previous day, although further rain was forcast.   We arrived in the Port of Almeria, on the Southern coast of Spain, at about 10:30am, and by 11am, we’d...

We arrived in Murcia safely, and more or less on time, courtesy of Jet2. Our hosts for Friday night, Tracey’s Mum and Dad, however, were a little late getting to the airport, having taken almost 3 hours to make a one and a half hour journey, on account of flash floods having swept away parts of the toll road. Diversions...

This is a quick update just to say that the rest and recuperation is doing me a world of good; I should do this more often!   I’ve been up and about and busying myself with the necessary repacking required to squeeze all the junk that I was planning to take on board ship with me down to a much...

At this early point in the trip, my blog post should be reading something like this: “arrived in Dover safely and boarded the ship as planned. Settled into the cabin on The Black Watch and watched as the lights of Dover Port disappear behind us. Coming up next…. The Bay of Biscay…”   Sadly, that didn’t happen.   As I...