Peter's Travel Blog

It’s been another relaxing day at sea. The weather has been sunny and warm, although the upper decks have been a little on the windy side, as it has been for the last couple of days. Once again, my class was scheduled for this afternoon at 2pm, so breakfast was leisurely, and the morning was spent editing video and photographs...

Today, we have been at sea again, and I had a class this afternoon. Following the chaos of the last class, Housekeeping provided us with heavy-duty crowd control barriers. Not only that; they’d pre-arranged the tables more or less exactly how we wanted them (Housekeeping is awesome, and we love them…). Needless to say, the class was far more orderly,...

Today, we arrived at our first port-of-call, Lisbon, in Portugal. Both Tracey and I were on tour escort duty; Tracey went off to ‘The Southern Hills’, while I enjoyed ‘Lisbon City Highlights and Estoril’. I must confess we metaphorically drew straws to see who should do what. In the end, Tracey got the Southern Hills because it featured a few...

This morning, I held my second class; a tonal study where I had everyone painting a picture using only a single colour (Paynes Grey). It came as little surprise, after yesterday’s civilised first class, that today turned out to be slightly chaotic. The problem was a lack of a proper queuing system; people who turned up first were not necessarily...

Our first night at sea was pleasantly calm, and our cabin, although not one of the larger ones, doesn’t feel too cramped, and has a large window instead of a porthole, which always earns extra brownie points in our book. My first class was in the afternoon, at 2:30pm, which meant we didn’t have to crawl out of bed at...