I've still got a scar, albeit a mental one, from the last time I tried to do a touring day with my family after getting off a Disney Cruise. Some caustic combination of crushing reality and exhaustion at having stayed up for 40+ hours to absorb as much Disney as possible, means they're best left to sulk uninterrupted for those first few hours. This is the reason for us going straight home today rather than packing any more adventures into the tail of our ...

As exciting as our touring has been, everyone was busting for our two and half day run at sea. We'd planned to kick off the first full day with breakfast together, we all left the room around the same time, but Fid snuck off to Edge on the way not to be heard from again until dinner the first night - well actually his voice was gone by then so we didn't really hear from him then either :)Shunning the spa treatments Gab and I enjoyed blissful time to ourse...

My god I miss sleep! Today is a sea day which means last night the kids had the freedom to be out as long as they wanted. Boo was home around 12, Fid a little after 1am. I crashed soon after Gab escorted me back from the Irish pub :) I woke to Gab's alarm going off for some ungodly reason. It turns out she had a perfectly valid one though, we had Boo booked for the Princess Gathering in the atrium in half an hour. My sleepyhead demanded more, the pang of guil...

The big achievement of the day was negotiating our way to Dover on public transport. A cab was impossible to find, I went searching up Regent St and brought one back to meet Gab, the kids and our flotilla of luggage. All that Tetris time meant we somehow wangled our way in to the cab and on to St Pancras. Boo and I went breakfast shopping at M&S and got trapped in a queue returning to the platform just as boarding commenced. We chose a carriage with only one empt...

The tube strike has had no effect on the people around here, everything is just as packed as ever this week. We left the British Museum for today so we didn't need any transport - we walked up Shaftsbury and Fid remembered the Forbidden Planet store he clocked the afternoon we first arrived. This place is stocked up with every kind of trinket from every kind of cult sensation from the last 40 years. Figurines of every Doctor, a Walter White dressed for the co...