Today is Wednesday 18 March, remember that! Yesterday I forgot to mention that it was the 4th anniversary of the death of Barbara's husband, Barry. Another glorious start to the day. Breakfast. Mile. Then sat with Barbara and Rob on the Prom Deck. Temperature was about 30. Today was barbecue day, but for some reason there were no tables out by the Riviera Pool, so we ate in the Horizon and it was so hot. We would normally have eaten by the Crystal Poo...

Wednesday 18 March. Today we went from tomorrow to yesterday! We crossed the International Dateline overnight and went from GMT +13 to GMT -11. We're reliving Wednesday 18 March. Pago Pago (pronounced Pango Pango) is on the American Samoan island of Tutuila. We docked about 7:45. The weather was very hot, humid and mostly overcast. Rob and some other guys from the ship played golf, so the rest of us grabbed a bus and paid $20 each for a four hour tour. Th...

Still in norovirus lockdown, but it looks like things may be back to normal tomorrow. Weather is getting much warmer and the humidity is on the rise. It was 30 at 11:30. They've posted our route in relation to Cyclone Pam on the board by the Crow's Nest and we passed a lot closer to the centre than I expected (though I may have misread the chart!). But we're into much calmer waters now. After breakfast and my mile, I sat out on the Prom Deck with Barbar...

She was a-rockin' and a-rollin' again this morning, but the decks were open, so I was able to walk a mile on deck 7. Straight after that I checked the laundry and found a machine free, so grabbed it! In between visits to the laundry, I sat out with Barbara on the Promenade Deck, it was good to be outside again. We had lunch with Rob and Linda (who had just scored the highest Scrabble score of the entire Grand Voyage, so far). Men lost Battle of the Sexe...

Mothering Sunday. Well Pamela's a frisky girl! The sea state is rough and we're moving up and down quite a lot. Because of the evasive action that we're taking, the Captain announced that we'll now not be calling at Apia in Western Samoa. On the last cruise we missed Bora Bora because of propulsion problems. We were, however, given £100 on board credit. This time no mention was made of any compensation, I guess because it's for safety reasons. I woke up l...