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....

Final distance travelled: 3,850 nautical miles  The cruise had now officially ended. Out of our cabin by the required time of 07:45. No sign of Pika, our cabin steward, or as Roisin had christened him 'Pikey'. All I could think of adding was calling him, in my best pompous Capt. Mainwaring voice ‘stupid boy’!!The ship actually docked slightly early at 08:25. We had our last breakfast in the restaurant and headed down to the Shaker Lounge to ...

Distance travelled: 674 nautical milesRoisin and I have sailed away from Venice on 3 occasions. Passing across the Grand Canal and seeing St. Mark's square and the characteristic Palazzo Ducale otherwise known as the Doge’s Palace and not as I’ve been calling it, the 'Dojo’s Palace. As Roisin pointed out to me, for centuries this was the centre of the Government of the Venetian Republic and to her knowledge no Sumo tournaments ever taken...