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Article: Aboard the new wave of cruising; LOADS TO SEA AND DO ON THE OCEANA.(Features)

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Sunday Mirror (London, England)
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June 15, 2003
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Byline: LOUISE PRIOR

IT was the perfect introduction for two cruise virgins... sailors in crisp white uniforms draping us in garlands of flowers as a steel band struck up a calypso on the shore.

The only immediate problem was working out if we were actually moving as P&O's new pounds 200m super-liner edged away from Fort Lauderdale in Florida bound for the Caribbean.

The Oceana's engines purr rather than roar into life and my mum Elizabeth and I had to do a ...

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