Peter's Travel Blog

Today has been another sea-day, and I’ve had folks painting a Buenos Aires city scene, in preparation for our visit tomorrow. It’s not just a session on painting buildings, however, the session concentrates on simplifying complex architecture, tackles some of the challenges we are likely to face with such a subject and offers possible solutions. In terms of difficulty, I...

70 days is a long time to be on a cruise ship. There are ports a-plenty, to capture folk’s imaginations and wanderlust, of course, but it is the sea-days that truly stress-test a ship’s ability to keep people out of mischief. On this trip, there seems to be plenty to occupy passenger’s minds when we are at sea; quizzes galore,...

Today, we were back at sea (three sea-days to our next port-of call, not two as I said in the previous post), and in this morning’s class, I had them painting Christ the Redeemer, overlooking Rio, without the cloud and the rain. The class seemed to go down well, and there were some seriously good results, which is always a...