Usual start to a sea day, breakfast and a mile round the Prom Deck, with Barbara and Rob today. Sat on the shady side of the ship with Barbara for an hour or so then I went to hear Nikki Chapman's talk on her early career in the music industry. She worked with Take That and the Spice Girls, who knew? After lunch on deck 12 aft, which is so much nicer now they've banned the smokers it was BoS. The men are losing by a bigger margin than ever. Still a few m...

Yesterday's sail away was held in Carmen's because of inclement weather. This continued through the night. Because my cabin faces the front of the ship, the rain kept hitting my window. It was quite choppy too. It was nice enough to sit at one of the tables on the Promenade Deck, where we went through the rest of the itinerary trying to decide which trips to take. Most ports look like being HOHO buses or negotiating with local taxi drivers when we arrive...

Ordered wake up call for 6:45 and room service for between 7:00 and 7:30. The latter arrived before the former! Watched part of the sail in from my room and we docked at 7:30. As my cabin overlooks the bow of the ship, I effectively have the same view as the ship's web cam, which is available online. Temperature on arrival was 25 degrees. Today I took a ships tour to Corcovado where the Cristo Redentor statue is, then a drive along Leblon, Ipanema and Co...

Another glorious day, the temperature at midday was 27 degrees, and was even hotter in the afternoon. Amazingly we're coming to the end of week two. After breakfast Rob and I walked our mile round the Promenade Deck, deck 7. Then I sat and read on the shady side of the deck until lunchtime. This is an odd sector as tomorrow in Rio is a changeover day, but the sector doesn't actually finish until Sunday in Montevideo. Consequently things are getting a litt...

A day of doing b***** all! The weather was a beautiful 27 degrees. After breakfast in the Glasshouse with Rob, Linda and Barbara (unplanned, we all arrived at much the same time), and my mile around the Promenade Deck, B and I just sat on the shady side of the ship and chatted until lunch time. Battle of the Sexes was half an hour later, as the Ligurian Level members had their lunch today. (That's the highest level in the loyalty club, and I'm never like...