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…f you still – or do – feel lousy and seasick, go as soon as you can to the medical centre and get the injection. This is very fast and effective. You will sleep for a few hours and then feel great. They often also give you pills of the same active ingredient (promethazine) to take for next few days. Once on a level keel, as it were, eat ginger, drink ginger ale, get fresh air and look at the horizon if you do have bouts of feeling a bit queasy. It…

…ew days many naive people found themselves feeling queasy and seasick. The medical centre did a roaring trade in the $100 anti-seasickness jabs. There were many empty tables at dinner on the second night after departure from Southampton (the first full day at sea). On the QE2 trip only one third made it to dinner, on the bigger and even more robust QM2 that number was more like half to two-thirds. Things calmed down but then we entered a large sto…

…Mary and Queen Elizabeth. One of the brochures sitting on the table in the medical centre while people were waiting to see the nurse to get anti-seasickness jabs on the first day at sea (when we were passing through a storm) read “Feel Famous, Travel on Cunard”. Though most of them felt ill – were they famous or feeling famous at being on board? The reality of modern cruising is that there are a lot of ships, a lot of competition and a lot of bert…