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The first Spectator cruise

Seven days on a boat with Jeremy Clarke. What could possibly go wrong?

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issue 11 April 2015

It’s a complete recipe for disaster of course. By which I mean being trapped at sea with The Spectator’s ‘Low life’ correspondent for an entire week. That’s seven whole days. At sea. Crikey!

Not that Jeremy Clarke isn’t the best of company (he is — everyone adores him) and not that we won’t all have the hugest of fun. After all, Cunard’s Queen Victoria has at least a dozen different watering holes to keep us (and JC) happy, from the Golden Lion pub to the swanky Commodore Club for pre- and post-prandial cocktails.

No, it’s just that I fear hangovers of Wagnerian proportions, appalling damage to my liver and — even more — the socking great bar bill. I mean, even poor Jeremy can’t put it all on expenses.

The Spectator, in association with our friends at Cunard, is launching its inaugural readers’ cruise later this year with a magnificent trip around the Mediterranean from Saturday 22 August to Saturday 29 August.

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