Day 5 on the ship and getting more used to how everything works gradually. On monday I had my first chance to get off the ship in Ravenna, Italy to do some teambuilding with the cast and crew of both the theatre and the ice show. It was extremely hot and was a really nice looking place with a beach that went on for miles full of thousands of people. A huge game of volleyball and some beers on the beach was a great way to spend the afternoon and gave me a good bre...

First day on the ship and my first thought, it's massive! Not sure how i'm not going to get lost in this thing. After going through alot of security and filling out even more forms I got shown to my cabin to meet my room-mate for the next 6 months. He's from the Phillippines and is one of the show cast so is in the same department as me. My room is like a shoe box but at least I wont be spending much time in it with the amount there is to do on this floating to...

So here I am, sat in the Marriot hotel in Venice writing my first blog post. Journey went fine apart from nearly ending up in the wrong country because of boarding gate changes but arrived in Venice at 11:30am local time and, after trying to use symbols to speak Italian, I found the pick-up car to take me to the hotel. The biggest shock so far was checking into the hotel to find that i'm sharing a room but I suppose I better get used to it and it was good meeting...