The last time my path crossed with that of Maggie Thatcher had been on board Cunard’s QE2, when she joined a Royal reception to be able to mark the ship’s 40th special birthday, and I’m not convinced she has the best marketing tool for cruise ships.

Others may think differently, along with both Swan Hellenic and Voyages regarding Discovery are linking the release of the biopic The Iron Girl to their formidable line-up of invitee speakers.

Former Foreign Secretary Douglas (now Lord) Hurd, who dished up in Maggie’s Cabinet, will be going on board the newly-refurbished Minerva for a 15-night cruise trip in the Adriatic. As he was in office during the protracted wars which tore Yugoslavia apart in the early 1990s, he or she have something appropriate to express when the ship calls at the Croatian ports of Dubrovnik, Korcula, Split along with Pula, and the Montenegran city of Kotor.

The cruise trip, which begins in The island of malta and ends with 2 nights in Athens, also trips Trieste and Venice in Italy, the actual Albanian port of Sarande, and Itea (with regard to Delphi) in Greece. Fares coming from L2,170.

For what it’s really worth, I reckon Hurd’s a bit of a dried up old stick. Far more enjoyable will be the former ambassador to Russian federation, Sir Anthony Brenton who is travelling on board Discovery for a 14-night voyage coming from Harwich to Iceland and the Faeroes.

I been on Fred Olsen’s Balmoral in the Baltic as he made his cruise ship debut, and I was thoroughly immersed in his talks on European history and the dark arts of diplomacy.

He worked in Britain’s Moscow embassy in the 1990s, along with was ambassador from 2004 to be able to 2008. More appropriately for your journey to Iceland, with java prices a hot topic, he led the actual Foreign Office delegation at the ’92 Earth Summit in Rio signifiant Janeiro.

Fares for the cruise, which usually visits Bergen and Flam in Norwegian; Akureyri, Isafjordjur, Grundarfjordur and Reykjavik in Iceland, and Torshavn inside Faeroe Islands, start at L1,499, is currently writing tagza.com.

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