Peter's Travel Blog

Today, finally, after seven days at sea, we arrived at our first Caribbean port of call, Bridgetown, in Barbados. On our last visit here, over Christmas and the New Year, we were amazed to find ourselves the only ship in port. It wasn’t quite that quiet today, but there was only one other ship in port (a Regent ship –...

This was the awesome sunset we enjoyed just a couple of nights ago. It was accompanied by the ‘Beaver Supermoon’ at the rear of the ship. We’re currently five days into a seven-day crossing of the Atlantic ocean. Classes are going well and the weather and sea swells are improving daily. There isn’t a lot of wildlife to be seen...

03/11/25 Vigo – Spain   Today, we arrived at out first port-of-call, Vigo, in Spain. This wasn’t meant to be our first port-of-call; that was meant to be Horta, in the Azores. On the very first night of our trip, after leaving Portsmouth on Thursday, however, the captain explained how a big storm in the North Atlantic made that not...

We’re on the eve of another cruising adventure. For the next four weeks, I’ll be running painting and sketching workshops on board Saga’s Spirit of Discovery, sailing to the Caribbean. The sketching sessions are a new innovation; I’ve prepared four of them, so I’ll be monitoring them very closely to see how well they are received. Theoretically, they should be...