Trips

Venice's ban turns on four alternative triggers rather than a tonnage limit, Barcelona is closing terminals rather than capping calls, and Dubrovnik has no binding cap at all. At Nice a mayoral order limiting cruise calls was suspended by the administrative court four days after it was signed.

October is the single busiest month in Mediterranean cruise ports, so the case for the shoulder season rests on heat rather than on quiet. Alaska's driest month is April and its wettest October. The Antarctic landing season runs for 164 days. And no standard definition of cruise length exists anywhere.

The muster of newly embarked passengers must take place before departure or immediately upon it, not within 24 hours of boarding; the rule changed in 2015. Survival craft capacity exceeds the number of people aboard by requirement. And the medical centre manages about nineteen cases in twenty without putting anyone ashore, but nobody regulates it and it is not free.

An index to the London pages: the royal buildings, the churches, the free museums, the parks and the zoo, the theatre district, the City and the markets, and the squares and the river — with the distinctions that are most often got wrong, and a note on how much time each one really takes.