We are into December and this is our week at sea so there is no escaping the ship...think there is enough to keep us amused though. We went to see two shows at the theatre, one great and one truly awful. First we had a singer who was fairly dreadful - over the top and self indulgent is an understatement (Ian says I'm a very harsh critic but anyone with ears could hear it was awful...confirmed by several people leaving half way through). The next show was 'The L...

Funchal, Madeira and FINALLY some sun and heat!! Funchal is a very pretty place which we saw by a bus tour, which took us up to the worlds highest sea cliffs. We wandered around enjoying the sun and watching the world go by. After I was very hot and freckled we went back to the boat where we tried out the rock wall for the 1st time. Ian, of course, got to the top with no difficulty but I made the fatal error of looking down, and its reeeaally high!!! I didn't m...

Hi all Unfortunately (Re: Stuarts message) I (Suzy) was very sea sick going over the Bay of Biscay. The room service treat that day for my birthday went uneaten :o(, it was a fairly rubbish birthday. We woke up in Vigo to a nice still ship and I managed to recover enough to wander around the city, which a pretty average industrial city and we didn't stay there for long but we managed to practice some spanish in the modern art gallery. That evening we went for a...

Hola! Our 1st blog entry...what can we say........ Suzy: Well, the boat is insane! Like a floating Las Vegas crossed with an American Mall where you can eat and sleep as much as you like, and best of all.....the food is all FREEEEE!! (It took a while of watching other people piling their plates, eating and leaving before we felt comfortable that we definately could just take what we wanted, as many times as we wanted...within our belly boundries obivously) So...