Peter's Travel Blog

It’s been a windy day today; so windy, in fact, that they’ve closed the top deck. I had a class in the morning – the first of three, over three sea days – and then went and fell asleep after lunch, until late afternoon. I hate doing that – it feels like such a waste of a day, particularly since...

It seems all the health questionaire-filling and running around to get them to the Reception before 10:30pm, was all for nought… At 7am this morning, the captain announced that the Kingdom of Tonga has issued a message to all cruise ships in the area; to divert away from the island, in order to prevent any possibility of the cronovius being...

Today, or this evening at around 7:30pm, to be a little more precise, we crossed the International Date Line. The occasion was marked by a few people holding up a stretch of rope at the very front of the ship and photographing selfies in front of it, with the sun setting in the background. What it means is this… At...