Art class has just finished. I have found a seat in a huge leather wrap-around armchair in the Crow's Nest Lounge which is high on the bow at the top of the ship, deck 13. I've pulled the chair up to the glass wall in front of me and it is as if I am perched right over the sizeable white-capped swell six stories below. It's quite mesmerising. I have a book but I find I cannot look away from the sea which today seems limitless. The sky outside is cloudless bl...

A nice relaxing sea day after our two days of exploring Montevideo. The weather has been hot and sunny again, hardly any wind to speak of, so a dead calm sea. We are back on a south-south westerly course heading for the very bottom of South America and the Straits of Magellan, the day after tomorrow. At lunchtime today we were about 800 km off Port Stanley, somewhere out there in the South Atlantic. We went to a 2 hour bridge class this morning in playi...