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Cruising With Jane Mcdonald

Rating:3.6 of 5Total number of episodes:17Last broadcast:31/03/2018 at 19:00
March 2018
1:00:00

Season 2, Episode 2: Western Mediterranean

3.0 27 x
Jane stops off at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, catches the Tour de France in Marseilles and hits the Italian Riviera in Genoa.
55:00

Season 2, Episode 4: Cuba

3.0 12 x
Starting and finishing in Havana, Jane takes a trip around Cuba where she falls for the people, the buildings, the music and the 50s cars. She has lunch on the floating Rasta Raft, and enjoys a salsa session before gate-crashing a house party where she discovers no-one parties like Cubans party!
1:00:00

Season 2, Episode 1: The Baltic

3.0 40 x
Jane takes her first Scandi-cruise aboard the Viking Sky, visiting Tallinn, St Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm, and doing everything from meeting cats to becoming the fifth member of ABBA.
1:00:00

Season 1, Episode 4

4.0 37 x
Starting in Vancouver, Jane cruises around Alaska, enjoying a dog sledding adventure on an ice field, visiting the Glacier Bay National Park, meeting the cast of the onboard nightly musicals and taking a cooking lesson from the ship's executive chef en route.
1:00:00

Season 3, Episode 4: Mississippi

3.0 36 x
Jane gets a feel for New Orleans before boarding the world's largest steamboat for a trip along the Mississippi. On board there are sing-along piano bars and a theatre, and excursions include a trip to a former plantation, and the Louisiana State Penitentiary!
February 2018
1:00:00

Season 1, Episode 3

4.0 59 x
On her first ever river cruise, Jane heads to Budapest's Szechenyi Baths, before a visit to the moving WWII memorial, Shoes on the Danube Bank. Then, after a waltz and a wurst, Jane makes her way to her final stop of Passau, Southern Bavaria.
1:00:00

Season 3, Episode 3: Mekong

3.0 73 x
Starting off in Ho Chi Minh City, Jane samples the sights, sounds and sumptuous cuisine of Vietnam, before setting sail up the Mekong to Cambodia where she visits a floating market before ending up at Ankor Wat, one of the oldest religious monuments on earth.
1:00:00

Season 1, Episode 2

3.0 38 x
Ocean-bound travelogue, with ex-cruise singer Jane McDonald. Joined by just six other passengers on what is easily her smallest ever cruise, Jane enjoys unseasonably good weather as she visits the puffin-packed Treshnish Islands, and Fingal's Cave on Staffa, which inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.
1:00:00

Season 3, Episode 2: Iceland

3.0 188 x
From Reykjavik, Jane boards the former ferry Ocean Diamond for a voyage around Iceland's rugged shorelines. Highlights include hot geysers, the aurora borealis, whale watching, a dip in a lagoon, a visit to a puffin rescue centre and joining in a rettir (rounding up sheep from the mountains).
1:00:00

Season 1, Episode 1

4.0 33 x
Sailing with the masses on the MSC Divina is a novelty for Jane, but the ship's Caribbean calling points bring back fond memories. She seeks solace in the oldest Baptist Church on the Bahamas, and swims with sharks off the island of St Martin.
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