We had booked this cruise with 2 of our friends we had met on our previous cruise around the Greek Islands last November. We chose this cruise due to the low price and health care workers discount which was being offered by the cruise line.

We thought the weather may not be great but it will be good to be back on a cruise visiting ports we hadn't been to for a while sailing with friends who enjoyed cruising just as much as we did.

As the embarkation day approached, the weather forecast for UK and all the countries we were going to be visiting (France, Belgium, Netherlands & Germany) looked very optimistic with warm, dry weather predicted which cheered us up. Read more