So today we arrived at Muscat, this time we pulled into port at 10:00 so we could watch the ship arrive. This is just like you would imagine on a postcard. The backdrop was arid mountains with a strip of a couple of miles wide along. The coast. Here is the town Of Muscat. It is made up of low rise white coloured buildings with flat roofs and they seem to have an abundance of Arabic arches and turrets. There are also loads of minarets scattered around, visibly m...

St Patricks day sees us at sea, weather cooler than it has been since Australia but still warm and sunny. On board BBQ today with ice carvings and all the trimmings. Of course no one is hungry but it looks good. The dinner tonight is themed as an Irish night, with steak and guinness pie, cabbage and bacon and Irish stew soda bread etc. amongst other things. So as you can see they do make an effort to get into the party spirit. The Ireland England rugby is on TV...

We finally arrive in India, Cochin was cancelled and Replaced with Muscat. So here we are, first impressions as we arrive in the harbour (Bombay actually. Means good bay - for sailing into as named by the East India company) two things strike me one there is so much smog you can hardly see more than 200 m and secondly there is a large navy presence here. There is at least 5 frigates and an aircraft carrier - more than Great Briton can muster at the moment, and ...

Today is our final approach to Mumbai India. All 1950 passengers had to have a one on one meeting with an Indian immigration official that took all day the Indians I am learning are absolutely obsessed with administration. We clearly taught them in colonial days and they have taken it to heart. The weather on the ship was 34 today and showing no signs of cooling down at all. We are getting used to it. Even after dinner at 10 pm the wind is really hot, this is whe...

Mixed bag this morning on our arrival at Sri Lanka. The captain announced last night that due to circumstances beyond his control we would not be able to stay in Sri Lanka after 13:00 so all day trips were cancelled. Therefore our elephant sanctuary visit was called of as was any chance we had of linking up with Andrea. That put to one side we had to make best use of our trip time from 0630 to 1230. We got the six of us together and rented three motorised tut tut...