My route to work along Marine Parade yesterday was resplendent with families and tourists enjoying the sun.
Busy council workers were emptying rubbish bins, blowing leaves from steps and sprucing up the summery amenity.
One can only imagine the hustle is with a view to welcoming the screeds of passengers who'll today descend with belt-bags and cameras from the massive, and grandiosely named, Ovation of the Seas.
At the Sound Shell yesterday the masses of tourists from an earlier liner buzzed about the i-Site, where bus stops were reserved and traffic wardens helped foreign baby-boomers negotiate a pedestrian crossing.
They were then greeted by a flash mob of Deco performers, Deco music and vintage (Deco) automobiles.