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Low life

A tale of two cruises

From the North Sea, with a bunch of elderly snobs, to the Caribbean with 3,000 Americans on the Atkins diet

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

I’ve been on two cruises before: one was fun, the other misery. The misery one was a late August cruise from Dover to Iceland via Shetland, Orkney and Faroe. The weather was unseasonably chilly, the North Sea rough. The ship pitched and rolled through fog for days on end. At Shetland we went ashore and looked at rails of knitwear in shops.

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