Part of what makes a cruise with Regent so rewarding is the way they augment traditional shipboard activities with bridge instruction and other enhancements. They also offer an excellent lecture series on select voyages. Lecturers provide insight and perspectives far beyond what you would read in the average guidebook. Many of their speakers have first-hand knowledge of these locales, and most come from the foreign service and leading universities, or perhaps from the world of the arts or journalism.