Day 22 - Bye bye Kosherica - the last day of the cruise (1 January 2013)
January 1st 2013 Poor Don is really quite poorly. His cold is really rotten. Not quite the start to the new year he would want. We had a quick breakfast and went up on deck to get as much benefit from the sun as possible. The sun may have been shining but the wind was very, very strong. The captain said in his daily broadcast that we were at the tail end of a northerly gale.
I lasted about an hour and then went
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