Still cool today, but the seas are a lot smoother. Walked a mile after breakfast, but 3 course dinners are now taking their toll. My belly is definitely larger. At the beginning of each sector we get a flower in the cabin. This sector it's a gerbera. Mine had flopped, so I was going to water it, but Sheikh solved the problem by chopping the stem, so that the flower head now sits on the lip of the vase! We reprised the Social Foxtrot and Cha Cha Cha to...

After the fine weather yesterday, it was really rather cold today, although it did warm up in the afternoon. I did my mile after breakfast and it was very fresh and windy. I realised how much my bum ached when I was walking, I guess it's because of using the stairs all the time. Jimmy Cricket (isn't he dead?) and Lembit Opik are among the entertainers/lecturers on board. I had my first dance lesson today. The Social Foxtrot and the Cha Cha Cha. I appare...

Day one of Sector Two. Didn't put the light out until 1am, but I still got up at 7 as I was going on a wine tasting tour. Breakfast in the Orangery, which was a nightmare, because of the Norovirus precautions. I'll eat in the Medina until things are back to normal. Barbara and I made our way to the Sheraton to wait for our tour. We travelled over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sonoma, where we started our wine tasting. We began at 10.15!! We visited two win...

Kylie woke me at 5 o'clock. It was really cold in deck. We passed under the Golden Gate Bridge at 5.35. It was a bit of an anti climax, not as exciting as some other bridges, for some reason. None of my photos are any good. I was through the immigration process by 7.35. Finally left the ship at 11.05, before any announcement had been made. Went to a local hotel to confirm pickup time for tomorrow's trip and posted my cards. Walked through Chinatown ...

Sea conditions: rough. Wind force: 7. Outside air temp: 12. Now we're in Californian waters, the launderettes are closed until we leave them again. Apparently one of the world's biggest polluters doesn't want our waste water contaminating their oceans. The girl running the Battle of the Sexes as good as admitted that she had made the questions harder for the men than the women in the final round. The women did pull a lot of points back, but the final ...