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I m 29, I hitchhike and love street food – but my next holiday will be a cruise
Lockdown life has made this adventurous traveller long for a journey at sea
Harriet embracing the cruise life between bouts of seasickness
I’m hardly your stereotypical cruiser. I’m not a retired couple on the hunt for fly-and-flop around the Caribbean. I’m only 29, I don’t enjoy black tie and I have limited tolerance for Americans. If I were feeling pretentious I might describe my travelling style as ‘wannabe local’ – translation, I hitchhike and eat questionable street food.
So it might surprise you to read that when the Government finally blows the starting whistle on foreign holidays, I would like my first trip to be aboard a small-ship cruise. To me, it feels like the safest option in a post-pandemic world.
Watching a white-tailed eagle soar above the glistening pewter waters of the Inner Hebrides from the deck of a cruise ship freshly-brewed coffee in hand is one of those moments only holidays on the sea can deliver.
Being out on the waves, feeling the gentle roll of the water, is like no other sensation. And the good news is that cruises could start up again very soon if we stick to trips around the British Isles, that is.
After almost a year of government advice against cruise holidays, Maritime Minister Robert Courts this week put the industry on the same footing as domestic tourism, signalling a restart from English ports from May 17.
Major operators have announced plans for holidays in home waters this summer
18 March 2021 • 2:18pm
Cruise ships have been a familiar sight off the English coast since last year – will there be more of the same in 2021?
Credit: FINNBARR WEBSTER/GETTY
Cruise holidays are returning to UK shores with a series of voyages in home waters intended to be “a highlight of British summer time”.
P&O Cruises, Princess, Cunard, Viking and Fred Olsen have scrapped planned overseas itineraries and are replacing them with short-break and week-long cruises around Britain.
P&O Cruises president Paul Ludlow said: “We cannot wait to give our guests a much-deserved holiday. Our staycations will provide the ultimate escape and we hope they will be a highlight of British summer time.”
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