First day at sea and what a good day we have had. Our day began very early, around five thirty Aussie time, 16:30 UK time. Both Dave and I were wide awake and unable to get back to sleep and so we did what all normal people do at five thirty in the morning, we went to the gym.I'd forgotten just how impressive there gym on board the ship was.... there is everything I need to keep up my weights work, including a smith machine. Obviously, the gym was empty......

Second day at sea.Another really good day on board the gorgeous emerald princess. Today, finally, I asked an Aussie what Pom meant. We get called it all the time but I had no idea what the actual origin of the word was or what it stood for. We got a few different answers but all around the same theme. One suggested Pom was spelt:- POME. And stood for :- "prisoner of mother England". And another couple told us that it was spelt POHM and stood for "prisoner of...