The day of disembarkation. The 'blurb' stated that all staterooms must be vacated by 8am. Now in normal circumstances we would comply but so far I have failed to mention anything specific about our cabin steward. He never properly introduced himself on day 1 so, for some reason, we decided to call him ‘Reg’. It seemed as good a name as any and, after all, his name DID begin with the letter ‘R’!! A good cabin steward will familiari...

This blog starts the way every blog seems to start…with the weather."It's raining again ma!"“Oh b*****! The Hodgsons must be on another bloody cruise! I wish they’d stop it just for a few months so we can get a bit of sunshine around the place!!”09:15am. Our first leg of the journey was a short half mile to Hough Green station. A simple task in itself but with the rain and the luggage and it seems a shame to take a taxi for such a shor...