http://planettrekker.info/cruise My experiences as a cashier in a cruise ship casino... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:49:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the World Cruise is over, ending with a bit more of a whimper than a bang.   It’s a little strange now to look out and see so many new faces. Having spent almost four months with the same people was at times annoying, comforting, boring, interesting and always oddly familiar. ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/29/its-a-small-world/ Yesterday was the last time I am going to set foot in Europe. Barring an unexpected windfall or strange confluence of situations that brings me back I may never visit this part of the world again. The ship is in Madeira tomorrow but I’m not allowed off again so the ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/15/bye-bye-europeits-been-fun/ A somewhat short day so a somewhat short post, plus I’m typing this standing up and I have sore feet. It may have been a short day but it was a fun one.   Another late finish followed by an early start for safety training and I was chugging a can of ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/14/monkey-mania/ I have been completely and utterly lost in Venice. I don’t mean dazzled by the architecture, history and romance of the city, although that happened as well, I mean that I was wandering up and down laneways in the middle of the night with only a few streetlights to show ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/11/oh-solo-mio/ There are very few places in the worlds that live up to the promise of the postcards. Those little glossy squares of photographic perfection can give a false impression and usually they present an ideal much more than an actuality. I can say, with hand on heart, that Santorini lives ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/06/pretty-as-a-picture/ This is just a short post because I have a favour to ask. When this contract is over I will be looking for another project and I have always had a desire to spend some time driving around the US getting to know the real America and Americans. While I ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/02/100-americans/ I really had to make the most of the time I had in Istanbul but for a city of this size, complexity and history I’m not sure that I did a very good job. The reason was that I had port manning one of the two days that we were ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/04/02/what-a-delight/ In a way I would have preferred not to have gone to see the Pyramids yesterday. I’ve never been to Alexandria but I have been to Cairo and I’ve already had my opportunity to see and touch the pyramids, stare into the face of the sphinx and to walk the ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/03/29/the-riddle-of/ Yesterday I had my boots coated in a fine white dust and it clung like I had sprinkled icing sugar on them. It wasn’t dust though, it was a powdery coating of Egyptian sand and as soon as I saw it I knew I was back.   I have been to Egypt ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/03/26/just-think-of-all-the-hour-glasses/ Sea days are a killer and days spent onboard while the ship is in port are frustrating, so it was with no small amount of relief and excitement that I went down the gangway yesterday and breathed in the hot and dry air of Salalah, Oman. I’d been trapped on ... http://planettrekker.info/cruise/2008/03/21/camels-camels-everywhere-and-not-a-drop-to-drink/