Not an awful lot to report today. Weather has been in the high 20's, a bit of a breeze blowing. The ship has been pounding its way through the Arabian Sea. The men dropped a few points in the Battle of the Sexes It's half past midnight, the night of the captain's gala party. As per the last three, the guys went to both. This time, I think I got through 2 bottles of red in both parties and dinner, so I'm pissed! Need to sober up for the Battle of the S...

Woke up late after a good night's sleep. Temperature was 25, and the day was slightly overcast with a fairly cool breeze. The Battle of the Sexes resumed today. I'm the new captain and we're currently in the lead by 2 points. A long way to go, yet, though. Four more sea days before we get to Egypt. Ships are obviously like buses, you wait three months, then two come along at once! At 15:30 we passed Queen Victoria going the other direction and then...

Another beautiful and hot day. We arrived a few minutes late and the sail in was past some interesting coastline. I saw the pilot's boat arrive. My day was a little disappointing, despite our late arrival, we disembarked at about the right time for my tour. We had to wait a couple of minutes for the late arrival of a pair of people, then, when we reached the dock gates, we had to wait for about another 15 minutes as our driver was hauled off to the police...