I recently had the pleasure of going on a cruise. The benefits of a cruise ship are that you can basically go to a lot of different places while essentially staying in the same hotel room. In other words, you unpack your bags once into your room and then the ship heads off to different destinations. It certainly would be a great way to see a number of cities and I found it quite interesting.

I also notice that as with a few years ago many young South Africans were working in London but all of a sudden they are all working on cruise ships or looking for jobs on cruise ships. The Royal Caribbean cruise liners certainly seem to have a number of South African staff, particularly in the spa’s but clearly this is becoming a way that young people get to earn money and see a bit of the world – by working on a cruise ship. By all accounts however, the hours, including all the partying that they get up to, are incredibly long.