A normal sea day until lunch time when we had our Caribbean Tier lunch. We were sat with Rob & Rolinda and a couple of other passengers plus Liv, one of the dancers. It was her first lunch with passengers, so a baptism of fire! I had sweet corn & onion soup, sea bass and cheese & biscuits. Oh and probably a bottle of red. The table was fun and I enjoyed my lunch. As we returned to the prom deck we saw dolphins. I have never seen so man...

Glorious weather today. Just the weather to sit and enjoy a glass of crisp Pinot Grigio on the Promenade Deck. So I did! We woke up quite late considering we had gone to bed earlyish and had gained two hours over the last couple of days. Then it was a standard sea day. Or it was after I’d written up my web page. Well almost a standard sea day. There were so many dolphins about. I don’t think I’ve seen so many in one day. We scored 18/20 on t...

Callao is the port for Lima. In February last year on our cruise, Javon and I met a guy from Manchester and his Peruvian wife. I asked her what to do in Callao and she said that a friend of hers was a guide. I contacted Desiree and we arranged a tour of Lima and Callao. This morning I got an email from Desiree saying that she had to go to Cusco and that another guide, Cecelia would be her replacement. We took the shuttle to a local mall and met her ther...

After an extra hour in bed, we threw our washing into the machines and went for breakfast. There was a mandatory emergency stations drill at 10:00. After the drill, the captain said that there was going to be a change to the itinerary. Everyone groaned. It turns out that, instead of a sea day on 24 February, we will instead go to Martinique and overnight there. So we’ll have two days in Martinique. I was there last November and I’m not sure what we...

A good day today in our final Chilean port. Caryll (one of the Facebookers/Cruise Critics) had organised a private tour through Arica and into the Atacama desert, the driest in the world. As soon as we left the port we saw El Morro, a huge lump of rock that overlooks the port and Arica. We then saw the Iglesia San Marco, a church built by Gustave Eiffel and shipped from France. The only wooden part is the door. Then we had a look at the old railway station...