Peter's Travel Blog

We were late starting this morning, thanks to the chef’s meeting running over. They meet every morning from about 8:30 and are usually finished by about 8:45, so up until now it hasn’t been a problem. Today, however, the head chef was delivering what sounded like lots of very stern words to his troops, right through until 9:15am, by which...

We’ve been back at sea today, which meant being up at 7:30am for breakfast and preparation for the classes. It’s the first of two back-to-back classes on trees, today being the winter variety. At lunchtime, paella was being served in the Lido. We don’t really fancy eating there, though, mostly because its quite noisy, preferring to dine in the Grill....

It’s our thIrd day at sea. and we’ve already slipped into a routine of sorts. The alarm is set to go off at 7:30am; getting up at that time is hard – not what we’re used to at all… but it’s the only time that works. By 8am, we’re out of our cabin, hauling the suitcase full of boards for...