After a very comfortable night in the Comfort Inn I have decided the name of the hotel only tells half the story! They should rename the hotel the 'Comfort but sometimes noisy especially if we let families with small children who let them run riot along the corridors stay here' hotelIt was raining when we left London. That is a given. I can’t remember a holiday that hasn’t started damply. The weather upon our arrival in Genoa was very pleasant...

When trying to think of a novel start to this blog (orshould that be ‘start of a novel…!!!) Roisin suggested that we begin ourjourney from work. If it wasn’t for my bad back I would have jumped up and downwith glee for this was a splendid idea. (5 lines in and I’ve started to writein the style of Enid Blyton!!!)Due to my bad back, Roisin packed both cases and draggedthem down stairs and loaded them in to the car. On the morning of ourdepar...

As the song says: 'Suicide is painless'. Well, as it happens, so was disembarkation!! The last disembarkation day in Buenos Aires was not so much painless…but it was suicide!!!! Apparently 5 large cruise ships were in dock with approximately 10,000 passengers disembarking. Immigration couldn’t cope (perhaps that’s why they were noticed by their absence today!!) The baggage hall couldn’t cope. Trying to claim your luggage was like f...

We weren't the only ones who struggled in a rain soaked Puerto Madryn. That evening we over heard a rather camp shop assistant talking to his Brazilian colleague that having been to Puerto Madryn many times, he was so upset that he couldn't find his favourite ice cream/coffee shop with free wi-fi. He had walked the whole length and breadth of the town but returned to the ship defeated as well as deflated. He said that of all the times he had visited this ...