I got up early and thought I'd do my washing, so encumbered with my basket, I opened my bedroom door and walked straight into a bunch of balloons Barbara and Linda had stuck on my door. As I was walking out of the Battle of the Sexes, the captain was making his daily announcement. He told us that we would cross the International Dateline sometime in the next day or so and that he had made the decision to lose the 13th rather than Valentines Day, so it's his f...

My birthday and it's the Invisible Day! We crossed the International Dateline and lost a day, today. I'll be celebrating on the 14th instead. All passengers and crew who lost a day got a mention in the 'Horizon', the ships daily newspaper. There were 8 passengers and 1 crew member mentioned. My picture was there too. The 'Horizon' was full of silly things, like free drinks all day, dress code of pyjamas and so on.

The first of our sea days to Auckland, and the captain came on at lunch time with some good news. The original itinerary has been reinstated. Rumour has it that a German engineer boarded at Papeete and it has now been decided that repairs can wait until our scheduled two day visit to Dubai. When I got down to dinner, there were balloons on the table and the others had brought some cards and daft presents, including a slimming belt type thing, which I'm goi...

We arrived to a cloudy but warm Papeete. After breakfast Barbara and I strolled round the Lido Deck to get our mile in before disembarkation. I got off the ship about 9.00, but my tour wasn't due to start for another half an hour. In the event, my driver was 5 minutes late and I was the only passenger. We were 15 minutes into our journey, when Richard took a phone call to return to the docks to pick up 4 more passengers and then on to the office for 2 more...

Bora Bora. Oh. No it's not, this port has been cancelled :( The towel situation appears to have sorted itself out. Things are back to normal, one each of the smaller items and two of the larger. Fascinating stuff, this! Glorious weather today, 28 and a nice breeze. I've decided that yesterday was my last dance lesson. I'm really no dancer and it was becoming a pointless exercise, so I've given up now, rather than at the end of the sector. I'm now bac...