Sunday 10th January After sneezing rather a lot yesterday I woke up with a cold. I'd had a sore throat for the previous few days which I had been ignoring and put down to the air conditioning, but it was obviously not. One good thing was that the Sea Bands were off and I no longer felt nauseous. I was up in time to see us arrive in Las Palmas and tie up next to two huge Cruise Liners from other (German) companies. We went for breakfast, (yay my first breakfast...

Tuesday 5th January We were off! To Avonmouth... to catch our coach to Southampton. The Marco Polo had encountered some 'adverse weather conditions' coming across the Bay of Biscay and as a result of the slower journey time was unable to reach Avonmouth for her allotted time during the high tide. The ship was able to berth at Southampton instead, so we had an additional 2 and a bit hour journey to reach the ship there. After security (just like at an airport) we...

Sunday 24th January The start of 3 days at sea as we head towards Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina. Reading, writing, a little bit of sunbathing (as it clouded over not long after I found a suitable sunbed!), a decision not to take part in 'Murder on the Marco Polo', a Clive Leatherdale talk on Argentina (stayed awake, very interesting) and Eggheads on the Pool Deck. Eggheads not really working as the Eggheads are members of the ET and are all under 30 an...