THE WOMAN UNFOLDS A professionally drawn design and flattens it out to show the artist. It’s the outline of an elegant dame set inside the letter V.
“She’s 73 and this is her first tattoo,” her son tells me. “And this is her first cruise.” We’re in Squid Ink, the tattoo parlour on board Virgin Voyages’, about to set sail from Barcelona on a seven-night itinerary called The Irresistible Med. We’d boarded the ship a couple of hours earlier, and now we’re on a quick discovery tour. It’s my first cruise too and I’m impressed, partly because there are no children on board. Not that
