Sunday, 1st February 2026 Another couple of sea days. Unlike the Caribbean, where you can visit a different island every day, you have to travel hundreds of miles between islands in the vastness of the Pacific, which is larger than all the other world’s oceans put together. 🙂 So here we were, in our usual…
It was with great excitement that we got up at 7.30am and dressed, ready for our pre-breakfast laps around the deck. We also wanted to be on the lookout for our first glimpse of Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote and thinly-populated places on the planet. Pitcairn is, of course, famous for being the…
Wednesday, 28th January 2026 When we woke up this morning at seven o’clock, it was to see that the Onward was sailing along very slowly, only doing about 3-4 knots. We could see Easter Island in the near distance, the lively waves of the Pacific ocean crashing onto its rocky shores. So near, and yet…
Land ahoy! It was with great excitement that we woke up this morning at 7.30 to see land! But not any old land – this was Easter Island. Yes! Easter Island! Or to give it its native name, Rapa Nui. 🙂 We had been trying since 2020 to visit Easter Island to no avail. No…
We were a bit later getting up this morning, so the sun was already well risen by the time we made our way up to Deck 10 for our daily laps around the deck at 8.00am. There were more people there this morning, everyone strolling, power striding or jogging, some of their trainers squeaking with…
BURNS’ NIGHT After an excellent night’s sleep, we awoke when the alarm went off at 6.45am. As we looked out of the window to see what the weather was like, we saw that there were quite a few clouds near the horizon, so as we didn’t think we would get a good sunrise we decided…
Because I had had a good nine hours’ sleep last night, I woke up bright and early and ready to go. At 6.30am we quickly got dressed and made our way up to Deck 10, where half a dozen or so early birds were power-striding around the track. The sun would not rise for another…
We had set the alarm to go off at 6.30am as we hoped to catch the tropical sunrise, but when we awoke and looked out of our window, we saw the large red ball of the newly-risen sun, which gave our cabin a warm orange glow. We had missed the actual sunrise by 10 minutes….
Not a lot to write about today, on what was the first of five full days at sea. We would just spend the day relaxing and exploring the ship. We were up just before eight o’clock this morning, having got over most of the jet-lag by now. We got washed and dressed and made our…
Because of the five-hour time difference between Lima and home, we were awake pretty early, around 6.30am. Our plan had been to go up to the rooftop pool and enjoy a refreshing, early morning swim in the sultry air, but we couldn’t find any hotel literature that gave the opening times of the pool. I…
