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17th October 2019

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Blog posts are like buses. There can be none for days, then two or three come along all at once. On this cruise, I’ve opted not to purchase any of the on-board wi-fi, and just make use of my phone contract data or shoreside networks. The knock-on effect of that being that I can’t upload anything while we are at...

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16th October 2019

EMBARKATION – TILBURY

Today, we boarded the good ship Columbus at Tilbury in London, for a two-week voyage to the Canary Islands and back again. We have a central heating boiler at home that seems to know exactly when we are due to come away, and always manages to go on the blink just before we do so. Sure enough, two days before...

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11th October 2019

UPCOMING CRUISE WORK

I’m very excited to be able to announce my appointment on two up-coming cruises, both on CMV’s new flagship, MV Columbus. The first trip begins next week, on the 16th of October, when we join the ship at London Tilbury, for a two-week voyage to the Canary Islands. Having been to most of the ports before, we know what to...

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16th March 2019

THE LAST DAY

It’s been our final day at sea. We’ve spent it packing, drinking tea, watching the last two lectures featuring slideshows of the trip, by Ian M. Butterfield and Sue Walsh, drinking more tea, and enjoying the vocal talents of Mitch the Cruise Director in the Show Lounge this evening. The sea has been quite choppy all day; it was rough...

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15th March 2019

THE GRAND EXHIBITION

Today was our penultimate day at sea, and this morning I ran my final classes entitled ‘The Art of Composition’, where I ran through the ‘Composition Checklist’ and had them painting a Mediterranean scene featuring textures and a few simple figures. After a quick lunch, we returned to the Conference Room armed with the enormous pile of paintings that have...

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