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9th January 2019

FIRST STOP – LISBON, PORTUGAL

Today, we arrived at our first port-of-call; the capital city of Portugal. Lisbon is an interesting city, with an interesting history, old buildings and distinctive trams that whisk visitors through the old, steep streets. We’ve been here before – loads of times, which is the reason why we agreed to almost any escort duty the Shore Excursion Team wanted to...

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8th January 2019

AT SEA – FIRST CLASSES

Today, we were at still at sea, and I ran my first classes. Tracy and Steve were doing crafts in the morning, and I was down in the programme for the afternoon, scheduled for 2pm. We figured this would easily give us time to run two classes; the first one at 2pm and a second at 3:30pm, to finish at...

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7th January 2019

AT SEA – LIVING THE LIFE

Today has been our first full day at sea, and I haven’t had any classes so I’ve been living the life of a punter (sorry… ‘passenger’). We were up quite late, but still managed to catch breakfast before it finished at 10am, then we went out on deck to look for wildlife. The sea was quite flat (and the deadlights,...

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6th January 2019

BRISTOL AVONMOUTH – EMBARKATION DAY

Today, we boarded the Marco Polo. I have to say that it wasn’t the smoothest embarkation operation we’ve ever experienced. We were up in time to grab ourselves a Bacon Sandwich breakfast in Asda, which was but a short distance from the hotel, and was queuing to unload our luggage at the Cruise Terminal only minutes after the appointed embarkation...

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5th January 2019

HEADING SOUTH

Today, we headed South for Bristol, a day ahead of meeting up with the Marco Polo, which we are due to embark tomorrow. Most of the journey down was spent dealing with the small annoying voice in the back of my head nagging me that we must almost certainly have forgotten something. Then the sensible side of my brain would...

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