“WE wondered if you’d like to come to our cabin later for afternoon tea?” I paused over my French toast, my brain quickly trying to recall if “afternoon tea” was a racy cruise code of some kind. 6 We went on a cruise through the Panama Canal, pictured a ship carefully travelling through the Gatun Locks Credit: emperorcosar - stock.adobe.
com 6 The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans Credit: supplied Susan and Bill, who’d dined next to me almost every day on our trip around Central America, waited expectantly. Being a cruise virgin, I wasn’t sure what I was letting myself in for. But I was conscious of the fact that I would need a cruise veteran’s perspective on our bucket list Panama Canal voyage in order to give The Sun’s readers the full picture.
So I accepted — and picking their brains did, indeed, pay off. READ MORE ON CRUISES BLACK FRIDAY SAILS Five cruise hol deals to book on Black Friday - with free drink packages COAST STORY Experience life at sea on the Adriatic with a cruise from Dubrovnik to Split Our ship, Holland America line’s 936ft, 86,000-ton Eurodam only just squeezed into the canal’s 110-year-old locks — with a mind-blowing gap of just ONE FOOT either side. With the crew’s resident experts, Chris and Erica, giving a continuous commentary peppered with facts and anecdotes over the PA system for the duration of the 51-mile transition from Caribbean to Pacific, it was a stunning highlight of the two-week trip.
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