My daughter is a ‘digital nomad’! When I first heard this, I imagined her plodding across the desert with a laptop perched on the hump of the lead camel, guiding the caravan to the next oasis. She had enjoyed Kenya on a couple of visits, at one stage spending a day in a Samburu manyatta, but this was taking things a bit too far.

Oriana inched away from the dock, snapping streamers and breaking bonds. I stayed on deck in the fading light, watching our wake, all the way down The Solent and into the Channel, excited about the voyage to come, and places due to enter my viewfinder. But a few hours later, when we hit a violent storm in the Bay of Biscay, I was no longer thinking of exhilarating settings. ....