The latest in a semi-regular update about changes to the site, news and information from the social media channels, and any other bits of general business. This month includes a few modifications to the website, some new Facebook groups and Twitter promotional interactions, news about yet another upcoming holiday, and the usual roundup of some articles and videos I might have perused recently.

A brief review of our week-long cruise on Sapphire Princess which took us from Southampton to Guernsey, La Rochelle in France, and Bilbao and A Coruña in Spain. More detailed, more photo-heavy posts will appear in the portfolio section later but this review will serve as an early summary of the trip on the Princess Cruises cruise ship as a whole.

If you’re thinking of going on a cruise there’s more to it than just the cost or the destination to consider and while there may be many guides on how to choose a cruise that’s best for you out there I’m going to use a recent real example of cruisers who absolutely didn’t do that at all.

This blog post covers some recent changes to the website and a testing of the waters of the Pinterest social media platform for the first time in several years. Additionally, some articles I’ve recently read and some videos I’ve recently watched connected to travel.

There are many things that annoy me about cruise forums and I’m only going to say cruise forums here rather than all forums simply because I don’t tend to hang around any other sorts of forums these days. In this post I’m going to go through the three ones that bug me the most: the inability of people to be able to search, people being nasty for the sake of being nasty, and people who haven’t bothered to read what they’re replying to.

This weekend there’s a big cruise show event taking place in London. This blog post serves as a personal list of the companies in attendance as a means for me to identify businesses I don’t want to deal with as the event’s connection with the Daily Mail is something I find revolting due to my views of tolerance being at loggerheads with that bile-spewing source of shit’s continuous hatred of foreigners.

This blog post covers some changes to the website and some issues discovered recently. Additionally, some articles I’ve recently read and some videos I’ve recently watched connected to travel.

Where did we visit in 2017? Where will we visit in 2018? Yes, it’s the end of the year so that means it’s time for a look back at what’s happened and a look forward to what’s coming up because when it comes to writing blog posts it’s way easier to be unoriginal than think of anything new to write.

For many years cruising with Princess Cruises has benefitted from counting cruises with P&O towards their loyalty system, the Captain’s Circle. This will soon change and there are arguments for and against this move. Generally, though, I see this as a negative move by the company that might be perceived as an indication of cost-cutting which is likely to be a precursor to a reduction in the levels of service offered in the minds of many cruisers.