The prize for The Telegraph Just Back travel writing competition goes to Michael Hennessey for an action-packed account of his month-long cruise to Mauritius.

‘Behind us, a cold, wet and windy winter’s day in Liverpool. Ahead, a 33-day cruise to the sun-kissed island of Mauritius…’

So his story starts.

During the course of the month, they weathered ‘Hurricane Ophelia, Somalian pirates and Madagascan plague’ – or did they?

‘It was to be a cruise unlike any other, aboard a ship aptly named “Boudicca”, the warrior queen.’

Read the full story here.

Before of course arriving in Mauritius.

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