This being our fifth cruise with HAL, we knew our way around the ship and quickly settled down to shipboard life.

A tradition with me is to have Eggs Benny with mounds of crispy bacon and two or three of the absolutely best orange juice in the world as my first breakfast on boarde(how can it get any better as the oranges are loaded into a specialized squeezer, all the juice is extracted including a little of the peel's acid and poured into a glass. Boy is that a fantastic drink. Non of that cardboard or frozen stuff for me).

Because of our destination, we expected rolling seas so we booked a cabin low and midships. As it happened, Karma was on our side and we made all ports including The Falklands and Ushuaia and the seas remained quite calm. Only on one occasion did we feel some rolling but then it was in the evening/night and felt like we were in our mothers' arms being gently rocked to sleep. Read more