‘Perpetual’ cruise to leave Belfast after passengers wait four months in port

Travellers finally board Villa Vie Odyssey for three-and-a-half-year global circumnavigation

More than 100 passengers are due to finally leave Belfast on Monday on a three-year round-the-world perpetual" cruise after being marooned unexpectedly in the city for four months.

They were supposed to have set sail from the legendary Harland and Wolff dockyards in Belfast, best known as the home of the Titanic, on 30 May.