Freelance cruise journalist and editor of World of Cruising magazine, John Honeywell (Captain Greybeard) reveals the one thing he never goes away without on his travels. 

"Writing, Tweeting, blogging, Facebooking… I need to be in constant contact with the rest of the world wherever I may be on a cruise. My fat fingers are a liability when it comes to using a mobile phone’s touch-screen keyboard, and I need to use something a little larger. So I can’t go anywhere without my MacBook Air which does everything I need when I am dealing with words and pictures, and it also keeps me entertained with music and movies. I think its aluminium case is actually an object of beauty – and it’s a lot slimmer than me."

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