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...

Another beautiful day, the temperature his the very high twenties and there was a nice cool breeze on the Terrace deck. Amazingly this is week 13. It seems unbelievable that in just over four weeks I'll be back home. On the competitions front, the men drew equal with the ladies in the Battle of the Sexes, so it's honours even at the moment, 2 draws and a win each. I won sticker number 12 in the deck quoits. Today is Rob and Linda's 41st wedding anniver...

Easter Sunday. Another hot day, 29 at 7:30. We arrived early (4:00), and formalities were completed around 6:00. Many of the staff are Indian and this is the ship's only visit to the country this year. Many are so excited at finally seeing their families and friends. I told Sheikh to forget about my cabin this morning. Apparently, his wife and son will be boarding today until Dubai. My excursion today was to Elephanta Caves. This involved picking up...

Easter Saturday and 33 degrees at 9:00. My first sunbathing day for about two weeks. The day started early, as I was up at 7:25. After breakfast I went for my usual mile round the Promenade deck, unfortunately I couldn't make a full lap, as the rear of the ship is closed off. On each side are the two white noise pieces of kit, what is on the aft of the ship I don't know. Another bottle of wine in the Masquerade Challenge, we won by 1/2 point. We now have...

Good Friday. Another hot start to the day, 28 at 8:00. The weather was overcast and as I was walking my mile, I could hear thunder, we were 45 nautical miles off Colombo at the time. We were also travelling at 24 knots. Which is the fastest I've seen. We boarded three armed guards overnight, they had sailed from Colombo. I heard a noise outside at about 6:00, I don't know if it was them embarking or not. We're now on full pirate alert. You can't tell th...