Lifestyle Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. Cruise memories play out in my mind like an action-packed movie trailer.
One moment I’m cheering on superstar football player Lionel Messi as he officially names Icon of the Seas , the world’s biggest cruise ship, next I’m barrelling down a 42m waterslide called Daredevil’s Peak, expletives flying and adrenaline spiking, then kayaking around icebergs in Greenland on Seabourn Venture . Other times it’s more like a rom-com crossed with a food show – a stroll through the streets of Corsica with my husband in raptures about the custard bomboloni he’s just devoured, me equally obsessed with my vitello tonnato before getting back on board Oceania Vista . “On this day” alerts on my iPad remind me of my parents’ shipboard 50th wedding anniversary celebration or the shore excursion in Montenegro when a woman flashed her bare boobs at me to give me visual proof (and hard evidence) of the high quality of her breast augmentation surgery.
Then there’s the armful of gold bracelets I wear, each from a different port I’ve visited; or the decorations that come out every December, souvenirs of the week I spent sailing down the Danube with my son to see the twinkling lights of the Christmas markets and sing along to Silent Night in its country of origin (Austria). I could go on and on. And I will.
I’ve docked at the Bund in the heart of Shanghai, and in full view of .