The main attraction that got us cruising is not as you may think free food 24/7 (although this comes mighty close!!) It's not even being waited on hand and foot or even the wall-to-wall trivia. The main lure to this form of holiday for us is that it is always a pleasant experience to wake up somewhere new every day. Even when you spend 5 continuous days at sea on a Transatlantic crossing you wake up somewhere new every day!! Surely waking up to nothing but se...

Total distance travelled from Santos: 6345 nautical milesTotal distance travelled from Genoa: 98 linear miles!!It's taken me a week to think of the title for this final chapter of this blog but to be honest by the time you’ve finished reading this I bet you’ll be thinking you would rather have watched Ant and Decs Saturday Takeaway or At Home with the Kardashians!! I suppose there is always Catchup TV!!Our tale has now taken us to a rainy Genoa....

Total distance travelled from Santos: 6171 nautical milesSo, the eve before our last port. Mrs H had been at the satellite imaging for the weather in the Mediterranean due to what we had heard from the MSC Splendida. I kept reassuring her at 10pm and 11 pm that we had missed the worst of the weather but she was adamant that we wouldn't hit the rough seas until 12 midnight. Sure enough, I had been asleep for 2 hours and at just after 2am I happened to awake. T...