| Saturday, 18 October, 2025 |
| With a relatively early boarding time in Southampton, and the ever present possibility of Weekend Engineering Works… |
| Sunday, 19 October, 2025 |
| Without having to worry about getting down to Southampton in time for check-in… |
| Monday, 20 October, 2025 |
| The day was scheduled as a sea day with the entire day being spent crossing the Bay of Biscay in rapidly deteriorating conditions… |
| Tuesday, 21 October, 2025 |
| It was certainly a rocky overnight, but around 8am we finally entered the calmer waters of the harbour at A Coruña… |
| Wednesday, 22 October, 2025 |
| The weather had improved remarkably by the time the ship was making its gradual entrance into the harbour at Gijón as we settled down for breakfast… |
| Thursday, 23 October, 2025 |
| It did turn out to be a rough night with the ship pitching and rolling on the journey out of the bay and round into the Atlantic… |
| Friday, 24 October, 2025 |
| The difference between the South and North journeys across the bay was night and day… |
| Saturday, 25 October, 2025 |
| We were already pulling into our final port stop of the trip, Cherbourg, when I woke up… |
| Sunday, 26 October, 2025 |
| The previous evening the ships clocks had moved back from Central European Summer Time to British Summer Time at 10pm… |