The last few days have been pretty relaxing and pretty exciting all at the same time. We are at sea still and are heading towards the straight between Yemen and Somalia. With the Bombings on one side and the Pirates on the other we expected to see some military activity and were weren’t disappointed. First […]
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We have quite a few days now at sea. As has been the norm, the seas are eirely smooth, and I keep thinking we’re in a scene from Lost or that one where Jim Carey’s life is on film and he sails out to the edge of the set. It just shouldn’t be this smooth.
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Below are a few quotes that we’ve either heard or used over the past week that we thought were post worthy. They need a little back story, but I’ll try to keep it brief. “The fish has been frozen a very long time” The story behind this one relates to one of our first restaurant
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We crossed the equator last night, at 11:30pm local time. Prior to this, at 11:30am yesterday a cheesy ceremony was held where a fake God Neptune was paraded around the upper deck where he eventually presented the ‘Key to the Ocean’ to a staff member. This apparently allows the ship to cross the equator, although
We have a few days at sea until we reach the Cocos Islands and really all we’ve been doing is relaxing around the ship. Leanne and Gary have been going to the daily talks in the theatre which cover various aspects of WW I and WW II. I thought I’d take this lull in activity
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For the next few days we will see no land whatsoever, and in actual fact we saw nothing at all. No birds, whales, dolphins, other ships, nothing at all, not even flotsum or jetsum (whoever they are). Sunday night was the Captains Gala Cocktail, where the drinks were included and we had the chance to
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This morning we were off the ship and into Albany. The cruise company had arranged busses to run a hop on hop off service all day, which was a great idea. We had an earlyish breakfast and headed off the ship being scanned on the way out. Kath and I had slightly different plans to
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Thursday morning we awoke and had breakfast at the house. We did our final pack and had a shower in readiness for Gary’s cousin to pick us up at 10. The cleaning crew for the accom arrived a little before 10 with Kate arriving shortly after. Kate was driving Sherman the German, a big old
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The day has finally arrived and today we will board the MSC Orchestra for our journey onward. Here is a picture of the ship entering the harbour this morning taken by a fellow passenger. Last night we had dinner down by the water at Bathers Beach House. We arrived early enough to catch the sun
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One more sleep! Tomorrow is departure day and it’s all beginning to get quite real. The last coupe of days have been relatively uneventful for me as I’ve been working however L&G and Kath have been getting out an about at various times. It’s quite cool over here at the moment, but lovely and sunny.
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