The great thing about cruising is that you can wake up somewhere different everyday. Yesterday I woke up on the floor of the Officers mess and today I woke up on top of the canopy of the bandstand in explorers lounge!!!We’ve had 2 full days at sea sailing down the West Coast of the USA and along the thin Baja California peninsula that starts at the border town of Tijuana and finishes up at our destination for today, Cabo San Lucas. ‘Cabo’ is the...

Embarkation day had arrived. The Island Princess was not due to dock until 10am so for check in to begin from 1pm (by which they probably mean 12 noon) they would need all those who disembark in San Francisco to piss off pretty quickly!!I refer to the vernacular because although the ship had come from Alaska, about 600 passengers will have embarked in Vancouver and would be guests of Princess for 2 nights only, their destination being San Francisco. These mini c...