Introduction

Hi

Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog.

I am a 43 year old married man with two teenage daughters. From a very young age, 3 months old in fact I have pretty much done all of my foreign holiday travel by cruise ship. I started off on the SS Canberra in the P&O fleet where I made many wonderful childhood memories and friends, some of which I can still count as friends today.

Anyway, apart from being mad about cruise ships, and holidaying on them, I love reading and I always given any spare moment will bury my head in a book, even more so when I am holiday. I read all kinds of books from crime thrillers, historical fiction, chick flicks, comedy, biographies to murder mystery, in fact there are very few books that I would not consider reading.  Why you might ask, well I love to soak up information and learn about life plus I love the way that people tell a good story. I will always try and aim to read between 75-100 books a year (more if I can) and after every book no matter how good or bad, I like to reflect on it and give my views on what I thought of it.

Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to mix my interests in cruise ships and reading books into a blog so I could tell people about what it is I am reading, what I can recommend people to read on a lazy sea day on board a ship, and general cruise musings from my experiences on board the various cruise ships that I like to travel on.

So here I am with my first every blog.

My current book of choice that I am reading is the latest Rachel Abbott, DCI Tom Douglas novel, Come a Little Closer. I have read a number of Rachel’s books and they tend to be dark crime thrillers set in England, mainly around DCI Douglas’ home town of Manchester. They are real gritty page turners and the latest instalment is no exception. I am currently half way through it and have really enjoyed it the DCI is frustrated with the finding of a corpse in a twitchers hut in cold conditions on a lakeside Greater Manchester.

I’ll let you know my final thoughts on the book in the next few days when I finish it.

As for cruising, well my next trip is on Cunards QM2. I’ll be joining her in early August at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in New York after a 10 day tour of Washington, Toronto, Niagara Falls and New York to do a traditional eastbound 7 night transatlantic voyage to Southampton. It’s only just over 100 days until we leave for our trip and already the excitement is mounting and I need to sit down and start planning what to do on our trip.

Anyway, I hope that you found this introduction useful and enjoyable and I’ll post again shortly as I build up my blog site.