Right then, where to begin ?

Let me start by giving a bit of our background just to put things into perspective. My wife and I are 46 and 47 respectively. I am Scottish, my wife is Norwegian and our home town is Stavanger, Norway. We have 3 kids however, choosing to endure bouts of guilt, we elected to leave them at home with their grandparents as the cruise was in honor of our 15th Wedding Anniversary. Just the two of us then !

Unlike the thousands of you who seemed to have cruised zillions of times on different cruise ships we were humble "virgin" cruisers, and therefore went into this with our eyes completely open, having nothing to compare with, and not really knowing what to expect. however, between the two of us, we HAVE stayed in hotels in every continent and HAVE travelled extensively in both Europe and North America. In fact our family had a very pleasant residency in Houston for three years several years ago. During that time, the closest we got to the Caribbean was AI in Playa Del Carmen. Read more