Peter's Travel Blog

With just one day to go before we arrive at our next port-of-call, Funchal, I held my third class this morning; an exercise on tricks and tips to visually explain the three-dimensional shape of hills in a simple landscape. We had hoped that, by now, the numbers of folks turning up to the classes would have dropped sufficiently enough to...

What a difference a day makes. This morning, everything was back to normal again. Not only had the rough seas subsided, but the sun was shining, enticing lots of people out onto the deck for some fresh air. After breakfast, we joined them, doing several laps before heading back indoors to catch up on some blog-writing and online-studenting, in The...

An announcement last night advised us of a change to the itinerary. With a big storm and heavy seas rolling in from the West, in the way of our proposed route to Ponta Delgada, the ship has changed direction and we are now heading towards Funchal, Madeira instead. Not that the change gets us out of the woods entirely. It...

Today was our first full sea day, and I didn’t have a class. Which is just as well, because I woke up with no voice (I was also grumpy because I’d had a dream that a family of weird people were dismantling my campervan). I croaked my way through the morning, but by late afternoon it had more or less...