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Gardening remains one of the UK's favourite pastimes. For avid gardeners Fred Olsen has come up with the perfect cruise: the company's Black Watch will sail to the Canary Islands and the Azores in November with not one, but two gardening experts on board.

Next winter cruise lovers will have some interesting new options. P&O Cruises has decided to base their cruise liner Braemar in the Canary Islands for the first time and The Gambia, Senegal and Cape Verde Islands will be added to the itineraries.

A hundred years ago a volcanic eruption was something that just happened apparently out of the blue, with no advance warning. Fortunately we know today that these eruptions can be predicted with a remarkable degree of accuracy.

One can hardly open a newspaper or magazine nowadays without reading some new statistical fact, and it seems statistics relating to the cruise industry are no different. One can sometimes hardly suppress a smile at some of the findings published. According to the Mirror, a newly launched UK website that assists cruisers in finding the best cruise deal has quickly jumped on the bandwagon.

The latest Travel Beat Survey carried out by Travel Guard North came up with some very interesting statistics. It may come as a surprise to learn that the biggest single worry of the average cruise passenger is simply running late and missing the cruise.

According to a leading website aimed at providing information to cruise passengers, more than 35 million people go on holiday alone every year. So far only 5% of them choose a cruise holiday, clearly indicating a huge gap in the market.