Yes, I’m/we’re back home now after cruising on Black Watch from Rosyth in Fife via the North Sea, English Channel, Celtic Sea and Bay of Biscay to Brittany and Normandy in France and then on to Spain and Portugal. We were amazingly lucky with the weather, apparently they get a lot of rain in the north of Spain (although I think their idea of a lot of rain might be very different from mine) but to be fair the place is all very green and lush so they must get a fair amount I suppose.

Anyway, we took loads of photos and I hope to get through at least some of them tomorrow and so have a cruise blogpost up soon. We decided against going online on the ship as it cost £13 for 30 minutes and was very slow so with both of us using it it would have been very expensive and no doubt frustrating.

I wasn’t at all sure about going on a cruise but after the first couple of days, when I was eyeing up the lifeboats and deciding that there was no way off the ship, I settled down and threw myself into life on board, visiting the cinema, cabaret shows and comedy shows. Amazingly there were five talks by a chap who had run trips to the First World War battlefields in the past, he was very interesting and the talks were incredibly popular, just about standing room only sometimes.

Meanwhile, you can see a lot of images of Black Watch here.