Off we go on Valentine's day

We're leaving on Sat 14 February. We are due to start from Kingsteignton, for Dover, at the uneartly hour of 7.50am. We sail from Dover on board Balmoral, one of the Fred Olsen cruise boats later that afternoon. Our first port of call will be Lisbon.
The ultimate destination is Vancouver, and we fly back from there to Gatwick on 24th April, arriving on 25th.
Our route is through the Med, via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, to India and then to Malaya and Singapore. That is the end of the first leg. The next part takes in Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, Alaska and finally Canada.
All told, the trip is ten weeks, and we will be endeavouring to report the highlights along the way.
The trip is split into two legs, and to try to give an indication of where we are going, a small map will be included for each one. I say small, because that it is how they seem to come out, when posted.
For the first leg, a couple of alterations should be noted.Instead of Port Said, the port of call is Alexandria, and Cochin has replaced Trivandrum as the third stop in India.