The usually grey docks of London Tilbury were positively glowing as my wife and I approached the cruise terminal on an early morning in May. Not from the sunshine, you understand, but from the amount of neon and Lycra-clad passengers about to board Ambassador Cruise Line’s Ambience – the most I’d seen in one place since Wham! topped the charts.
We stood amongst a sea of passengers in dungarees, technicolour shirts and “Choose Life” T-shirts, ready to step aboard and rewind to what many describe as the most flamboyant decade of all – the 1980s.
