Nick Dalton is a travel journalist who specialises in writing about cruises for a number of publications including The Times. He has written various guidebooks and when he is not on a cruise ship he can often be found skiing - which he also regularly writes about. Deborah Stone is an award-winning cruise writer who has contributed to the travel pages of many British national newspapers and magazines. She has also written guidebooks to the UK, and enjoys walking the River Thames path as well as getting away to the coast.