Hello, sailor!
“I’m a cruise virgin”. You hear this a lot on board Scarlet Lady, the new, luxurious super-ship from the Virgin brand, created to appeal to that very market: travellers who’ve previously never contemplated a cruise. But pretty much everyone leaves the ship planning their next voyage – hopefully somewhere with decent weather like the Caribbean and not the English Channel, where we are to have our brief taste of ship life.
Before boarding for our four-night ‘summer soirée’ sail from Portsmouth up and down the Channel — the result of the ship not being able to sail out of its intended home of Miami due to Covid — my perception of cruise life is a ship full
