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18th October 2020

Milestone

MILESTONE Today is a momentous day for our “little” website. Overnight we passed 2,000,000 (MILLION) hits since 2012. Yep, that’s right 2 million! What can I say except, on…

13th September 2018

NEWS: New ships for the Saga cruise fleet

It’s full steam ahead for Saga Cruises which has today announced plans to update its shipping capacity, with an all-new Saga cruise ship expected to be delivered in Summer 2019…

11th September 2017

Requests for site photos

Over the past few months we have received many requests for copies of images displayed on this website. Previously any request was considered on it’s own apparent merit. Unfortunately demand…

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Cookie	Duration	Description
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Cookie	Duration	Description
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SRM_B	1 year 24 days	Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors.
visitor	session	Cookie used to customize the user experience.
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Cookie	Duration	Description
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Cookie	Duration	Description
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MUID	1 year 24 days	Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.
test_cookie	15 minutes	The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	5 months 27 days	A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
YSC	session	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
yt-remote-connected-devices	never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
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Cookie	Duration	Description
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CLID	1 year	No description
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cto_bidid	never	No description available.
cto_bundle	never	No description available.
gdid	session	No description available.
li_gc	5 months 27 days	No description
port_tz	session	No description
session_id_sp_trk	session	No description
SM	session	No description available.
SseClient.Guid	session	No description
user_df	session	No description
user_tz	session	No description
wp_api	past	No description
wp_api_sec	past	No description