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How do I get a job in the cruise industry? Here’s the answer to the question I’m most often asked

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on February 4, 2022February 4, 2022
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Use these trusted links to find work

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Wife leaves husband behind at service station on way to join a river ship, tells nobody and carries on cruise without him!

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on April 27, 2021
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AmaWaterways boss recalls his funniest memories

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Days of Rhine and poses: Recreating the adventure of my cycling trip as a 17-year-old in Germany by taking a Viking river cruise

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on June 27, 2014May 5, 2015
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‘This story I am about to write is the strangest true tale I can recount. To think we two youths, a mere 17 years old, arranged and went on a fortnight’s hostelling holiday, cycling down […]

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How I discovered my secret double life in the Harry Potter universe

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on March 15, 2014October 7, 2015
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To say I was shocked to discover I had an alternative life in the Harry Potter universe is an understatement. One day I was lazily Googling my name and Metro – the newspaper I work […]

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Many more cruise articles on metro.co.uk

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on September 11, 2013January 8, 2016
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Before starting my shipmonk.co.uk blog, I wrote many articles for metro.co.uk – the website of the newspaper where I am deputy editor. I still occasionally do cruise stories in print and online for them. My […]

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Aged just 14, the Mexican boy who has drawn 45 incredibly detailed cruise ships

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on August 13, 2013May 5, 2015
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A Mexican boy who lives 200 miles from the sea has drawn 45 incredibly detailed cruise ships – though he has never seen one in real life.

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Saga Sapphire – younger on the inside

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on April 13, 2013January 8, 2016
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Saga Sapphire is rather like its passengers – a little dated on the outside but feeling definitely younger on the inside. The 37,000-tonne ship is 30 years old and looks like it should be bobbing […]

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Kate joins the royal ladies who launch

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on April 9, 2013February 27, 2015
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[Editor’s note: This post was originally written in 2013] The news that the Duchess of Cambridge will christen the cruise ship Royal Princess in Southampton in June makes her the latest in a line of […]

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The teenager who’s drawn 50 incredibly detailed cruise ships

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on April 2, 2013March 4, 2018
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Inspired by seeing the Titanic film at the age of seven, Harry Cotterill began drawing cruise ships. He set up his own company at 13 and now, having reached the advanced age of 18, has […]

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World’s biggest ship heads for Southampton

  • by Dave Monk
  • Posted on March 27, 2013July 25, 2013
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The world’s largest cruise ship will call into Southampton for the first time next year. Oasis of the Seas, which boasts a park, boardwalk and a zipline, will make its maiden visit to the city […]

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