Rocking the boat

CRUISING is an increasingly popular holiday option, but raise the concept of enormous, multistoreyed cruise ships with some (especially those aged under 65), and it will often elicit a set of prejudices. I was one of those people. Tell me I’m going to be traversing the high seas with 2900 guests and 1300 crew, and down I go into a rabbit hole of everything that could possibly go wrong: terrorism, norovirus outbreaks, unwanted orgies, undetected icebergs and sudden performance art by crew members dressed as woodl and nymphs.

When my editor asks me