Bruce Beckett

Bruce describes himself as, “your typical poet, musician, philosopher, management consultant.”

A lover of all things maritime, he has sailed in the waters of three oceans and eight seas, and estimates he is approaching his 20,000th nautical mile.

A former professional pianist, rock journalist and magazine editor, Bruce has worked in several cities in the United States, as well as in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.


These days he spends much of his time advising companies and government departments on good communications practice. Among other things he runs training courses on writing for the web , article writing and professional business writing .

Read the latest entry from Bruce every Wednesday. Subscribe today so you don’t miss a thing.

Posts by Bruce Beckett:

• Goodbye Uncle Ted, I’ll miss you - 12th Jun, 2013.
• Are you lacking in vitamin sea? - 5th Jun, 2013.
• Fast forward to summer - 29th May, 2013.
• In search of the unfamiliar - 22nd May, 2013.
• Could you be a five figure cruiser? - 15th May, 2013.
• Ladies, treat your man to a man cruise - 8th May, 2013.
• Small is beautiful - 1st May, 2013.
• When ninjas cruise - 24th Apr, 2013.
• When whingers cruise - 17th Apr, 2013.
• What price a day at sea? - 10th Apr, 2013.
• What you miss when you cruise - 3rd Apr, 2013.
• Cruising and the Y factor - 27th Mar, 2013.
• In search of lost continents - 20th Mar, 2013.
• Keeping it professional - 13th Mar, 2013.
• Grumpy cruisers - 6th Mar, 2013.
• An idiot at sea - 27th Feb, 2013.
• Saving private Brian - 20th Feb, 2013.
• Cruising the northern Mediterranean - 13th Feb, 2013.
• Keeping fit with Bruce - 6th Feb, 2013.
• Red letter days in Greenland - 30th Jan, 2013.
• Postcards to the stars - 23rd Jan, 2013.
• Indonesia should please ya - 16th Jan, 2013.
• A tale of two oceans - 9th Jan, 2013.
• Out of Africa - 2nd Jan, 2013.
• Bruce’s Christmas Cruiser Quiz - 26th Dec, 2012.
• Making your great Cruisemas escape - 19th Dec, 2012.
• Poetry in ocean - 12th Dec, 2012.
• Putting Santa’s system to the test - 5th Dec, 2012.
• Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner - 28th Nov, 2012.
• Getting in touch with your feminine side on a cruise - 21st Nov, 2012.
• Don’t let the homesickness get you down - 14th Nov, 2012.
• Cruiser rituals - 7th Nov, 2012.
• Starting with a bang - 31st Oct, 2012.
• Captain Obama or Captain Romney? - 24th Oct, 2012.
• Support your local continent - 17th Oct, 2012.
• Southern hemisphere cruising - 10th Oct, 2012.
• Sounds you hear on a cruise - 3rd Oct, 2012.
• Adult cruising for grown-up cruisers - 26th Sep, 2012.
• Group travel and the alpha male - 19th Sep, 2012.
• Sex and the single cruiser - 12th Sep, 2012.
• To sleep perchance to cruise - 5th Sep, 2012.
• Whose cruise is it anyway! - 29th Aug, 2012.
• Being a good citizen at sea - 22nd Aug, 2012.
• Blame it on Rio - 15th Aug, 2012.
• Your first cruise - 8th Aug, 2012.
• To the top of the world - 1st Aug, 2012.
• To China in a liner - 25th Jul, 2012.
• Surprise cruises - 18th Jul, 2012.
• Oh to be in New England - 11th Jul, 2012.
• Hurry, while it’s still number one - 4th Jul, 2012.
• Anger management at sea - 27th Jun, 2012.
• Wedding music at sea - 20th Jun, 2012.
• Elite cruisers meet - 13th Jun, 2012.
• Singing of Singapore - 6th Jun, 2012.
• Iceland’s a nice land - 30th May, 2012.
• My GCSE in cruising - 23rd May, 2012.
• My ideal cruise companions - 16th May, 2012.
• East or west, Canada is best - 9th May, 2012.
• Reasons to be cruising - 2nd May, 2012.
• Cruising for workaholics - 25th Apr, 2012.
• Cry Harwich for England - 18th Apr, 2012.
• If cats ran cruises - 11th Apr, 2012.
• Red Sea at night, cruiser’s delight - 4th Apr, 2012.
• Upside down cruising - 28th Mar, 2012.
• Getting emotional at sea - 21st Mar, 2012.
• You can’t beat an immersive wine cruise - 14th Mar, 2012.
• Swearing at sea - 7th Mar, 2012.
• The only way is Norway - 29th Feb, 2012.
• Turning Japanese on a cruise - 22nd Feb, 2012.
• Mind your cruiser body language - 15th Feb, 2012.
• The five rules of friendly shipboard conversation - 8th Feb, 2012.
• Cruise Britannia - 1st Feb, 2012.
• Cruising to India - 25th Jan, 2012.
• Cruising for under £300 - 18th Jan, 2012.
• Could you be a Shakespearean cruiser? - 11th Jan, 2012.
• Peering into the future - 4th Jan, 2012.
• Sail or no sail? - 28th Dec, 2011.
• A scary cruise ship tale for Christmas - 20th Dec, 2011.
• Dear Santa . . . - 14th Dec, 2011.
• Congratulations, you’ve won a cruising Oscar - 7th Dec, 2011.
• Are cruisers sexier? - 30th Nov, 2011.
• In praise of metaphysical cruising - 23rd Nov, 2011.
• Managers at sea - 16th Nov, 2011.
• My cabin, my billionaire’s bedroom - 9th Nov, 2011.
• Put on your cruiser’s ears - 2nd Nov, 2011.
• Confessions of an accidental cruiser - 26th Oct, 2011.
• Happiness is a cut-price cruise - 19th Oct, 2011.
• Get your holiday off to a flying start - 12th Oct, 2011.
• Where the Dickens should you cruise to next? - 5th Oct, 2011.
• Cruiser afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 28th Sep, 2011.
• Time for some namesake cruising? - 21st Sep, 2011.
• The secret life of a cruise band - 14th Sep, 2011.
• Are these the top cruise destinations for 2012? - 7th Sep, 2011.
• What sex is your cruise ship? - 31st Aug, 2011.
• Can cruising turn you into a werewolf? (1 Comment) - 24th Aug, 2011.
• To the Island of Naked Goddesses (1 Comment) - 17th Aug, 2011.
• First impressions of a paperback writer - 10th Aug, 2011.
• People who shouldn’t cruise - 3rd Aug, 2011.
• Six ships’ announcements I’d love to hear - 27th Jul, 2011.
• What price a day at sea? (2 Comments) - 20th Jul, 2011.
• To cruise or not to cruise? - 13th Jul, 2011.
• Staying lucky at sea - 6th Jul, 2011.
• What’s on your 2012 cruises short list? - 29th Jun, 2011.
• Cruising obviously - 22nd Jun, 2011.
• How’s your Mediterranean diet coming along? - 15th Jun, 2011.
• Dear cruise industry - 8th Jun, 2011.
• A tale of three cruises (2 Comments) - 1st Jun, 2011.
• Service that rocks - 25th May, 2011.
• Making a commotion on the ocean - 18th May, 2011.
• What should women wear on a cruise? (1 Comment) - 11th May, 2011.
• What I really hate about cruising (2 Comments) - 4th May, 2011.
• Ask Uncle Bruce - 27th Apr, 2011.
• Born to cruise - 20th Apr, 2011.
• Before and after your first cruise - 13th Apr, 2011.
• Wishing you all a very happy Cruiser’s Day - 6th Apr, 2011.
• Dancing all day, dancing all night - 30th Mar, 2011.
• Five tweaks to make cruising perfect - 23rd Mar, 2011.
• Why do people hate psychic cruisers? (1 Comment) - 16th Mar, 2011.
• Take a voyage of self discovery - 9th Mar, 2011.
• Love on the ocean and the Kama Cruiser (2 Comments) - 2nd Mar, 2011.
• From cruiser to silver screen sightseer - 23rd Feb, 2011.
• Dr Beckett’s compendium of cruiser maladies - 16th Feb, 2011.
• Popping the question on a cruise ship - 9th Feb, 2011.
• Let’s cruise again like we did last summer? - 2nd Feb, 2011.
• Da da da da, da da da da VATman! (3 Comments) - 26th Jan, 2011.
• Imagine cruising had never been invented - 19th Jan, 2011.
• Five lies cruisers should never tell - 12th Jan, 2011.
• Is this the next big thing in cruising? - 5th Jan, 2011.
• Your cruiser’s horoscope for 2011 - 29th Dec, 2010.
• Because it’s Christmas, I give you the cruise blog that’s also an 839-word palindrome - 22nd Dec, 2010.
• Presenting the Santa cruise letters (3 Comments) - 15th Dec, 2010.
• 5 words a ship's officer said that shook me to the core - 8th Dec, 2010.
• What’s the matter with cruise videos on the internet? (2 Comments) - 1st Dec, 2010.
• Have your cake and eat it with a Jamaica cruise - 24th Nov, 2010.
• Vital Honeymoon Tips for Prince William and Kate - 17th Nov, 2010.
• If cruise lines were like celebrity gossip magazines - 10th Nov, 2010.
• Left handed cruising – it's not right - 3rd Nov, 2010.
• Shopping while cruising and the Antiques Roadshow test - 27th Oct, 2010.
• Get your lottery winner cruiser makeover here (1 Comment) - 20th Oct, 2010.
• Only 73 shipping days to Christmas (3 Comments) - 13th Oct, 2010.
• Your emotions on the oceans - 6th Oct, 2010.
• Let the cruise be your muse (4 Comments) - 29th Sep, 2010.
• Are you a Gryffindor or Hufflepuff kind of cruiser? - 22nd Sep, 2010.
• The shape of cruises to come - 15th Sep, 2010.
• Which cruise ship job would you choose? - 8th Sep, 2010.
• Are you ready to be a tribute cruiser? (3 Comments) - 1st Sep, 2010.
• Save me from the postcards from Hell - 25th Aug, 2010.
• Getting the most from short break holidays - 18th Aug, 2010.
• Unlock your multiple personalities on a cruise - 11th Aug, 2010.
• Cruise more, live longer (2 Comments) - 3rd Aug, 2010.
• Puerto Rico cruise deals can turn you into an island dropper - 28th Jul, 2010.
• Become a Virgin Cruise Spotter (2 Comments) - 21st Jul, 2010.
• So you think you know cruising? - 14th Jul, 2010.
• Making your great escape – a cruiser's perspective (2 Comments) - 7th Jul, 2010.
• Cruising from your friendly neighbourhood port - 30th Jun, 2010.
• Footballers’ Cruises (2 Comments) - 23rd Jun, 2010.
• Cruising for a song (9 Comments) - 16th Jun, 2010.
• Sailing with giants - 9th Jun, 2010.
• Lenny the Liner and other vessels - 2nd Jun, 2010.
• Seven signs you could do with a break - 26th May, 2010.
• Alaska in comfort - 19th May, 2010.
• The joy of formal cruising - 12th May, 2010.
• Ship-shape story telling in five easy steps - 5th May, 2010.
• When is a cruise not a cruise? (2 Comments) - 28th Apr, 2010.
• Seven easy ways to empty your bucket list - 21st Apr, 2010.
• Become a Royal Caribbean record breaker - 14th Apr, 2010.
• Med Cruises At Mad Prices - 7th Apr, 2010.
• Vote For Value, Vote Cruise - 31st Mar, 2010.
• My cruise to St Petersburg – the adventure continues - 24th Mar, 2010.
• My Baltic capitals cruise and the generation gap - 17th Mar, 2010.
• Everywhere you go, aitch two eau - 10th Mar, 2010.
• Beat the blues with a luxury cruise - 3rd Mar, 2010.
• Western Mediterranean cruises and my telepathic cat - 24th Feb, 2010.
• Miracle in the Atlantic and breathing life into your holiday pics - 17th Feb, 2010.
• Cruising without being price kiboshed - 10th Feb, 2010.
• Lessons You Learn While Cruising - 3rd Feb, 2010.
• Hands free cruising is finally here with Luggage Chauffeur - 27th Jan, 2010.
• Late cruise deals in 2010: are you fully prepared? (1 Comment) - 20th Jan, 2010.
• Getting The Fundamentals Right (1 Comment) - 13th Jan, 2010.
• Seven reasons why mini cruises are worth considering in 2010 - 6th Jan, 2010.
• Murder In The Pacific - The Final Showdown - 30th Dec, 2009.
• Murder In The Pacific - A Christmas Cruise Ship Mystery (2 Comments) - 23rd Dec, 2009.
• Disney Cruise Package Is No Fantasy - 16th Dec, 2009.
• A few words from the star of the show - 9th Dec, 2009.
• Five myths that might stop you having a great holiday - 2nd Dec, 2009.
• Travels with my Auntie on Oasis of the Seas - 25th Nov, 2009.
• One Cruise Holiday I Wouldn't Recommend (6 Comments) - 18th Nov, 2009.
• Picking Your First Cruise Is Easy With 1870s Technology (1 Comment) - 11th Nov, 2009.
• Are cruise lines doing enough to help disabled passengers? (1 Comment) - 4th Nov, 2009.
• Cruisologically Speaking - 28th Oct, 2009.
• Cruising To Victory With Jenson Button? (6 Comments) - 21st Oct, 2009.
• Isn’t it time you tried the anti-gravity cruise option? (2 Comments) - 14th Oct, 2009.
• Great Cruising Nations of the Earth (2 Comments) - 7th Oct, 2009.
• Great Unsolved Mysteries Of The Sea and One You Can Solve Today (7 Comments) - 30th Sep, 2009.
• Small Change, Big Difference - 23rd Sep, 2009.
• Star In Your Own Ocean Motion Picture - 16th Sep, 2009.
• 12 sports they’ll never allow on a cruise ship (8 Comments) - 9th Sep, 2009.
• What kind of packer are you? It’s time to take the test (7 Comments) - 2nd Sep, 2009.