Trading bunk beds and buffets for silence and sleep

The Happy Wanderer has returned.

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After working 148 days in a row on board the world's biggest cruise ship as it pootles around the Caribbean with 7,600 passengers and 2,350 crew, Daughter #2 is home for a couple of months for some well earned rest. Before she's off again.She’s even brought the weather with her, sort of. Our watery sunshine is no match for the golden rays of CocoCay, but it’s a damn sight better than the wall-to-wall rain we've waded through all winter. I picked her up from Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 first thing Monday after her eight-hour flight. The first thing she noticed was how freezing cold it was, on what in North West England we'd class as a beautiful spring morning.