The largest cruise ship built for the UK market has arrived in Southampton ahead of its naming ceremony. P&O Cruises’s Iona has 17 passenger decks, creating capacity for 5,200 holidaymakers before social distancing is taken into account. The ship will be used by the operator for its summer season of domestic sailings. Under a grey … Read more
Watch P&O’s biggest-ever cruise ship being assembled in mere seconds thanks to mesmerising timelapse footage Speeded-up footage shows the vessel, called Iona, coming together over two years The huge ship weighs 185,000 tonnes, measures 1,131ft in length and boasts a total of 17 guest decks P&O says the ship will have ‘a cool gin distillery, exciting … Read more
The writer Lawrence Durrell called it ‘islomania’, a condition he described as ‘an affliction of the spirit’ that led sufferers to find islands ‘irresistible’. He caught the bug on Corfu, but I defy you not to turn into an islomaniac after a visit to one of the many beautiful islands off the coast of Scotland. … Read more