Category Archives: Mediterranean Dreams 2013

Strange Sounding Names – Kotor, Montenegro – [08/21/2013]

Those faraway places I’ve been reading about In a book, that I took from a shelf I start gettin’ restless whenever I hear Sometimes it amazes me really just the crazy turn my life took three years ago when I … Continue reading

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Permisso? – Venice, Italy – [08/19/2013]

11 more days…according to the crew manifest. I can manage to not go insane for 11 more days… Somehow… Of course today I had Venice to distract myself with, and that’s always a rather fantastic thing. When we arrived this … Continue reading

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Interludes of Randomness – At Sea – [08/18/2013]

Dear diary…today Shadow went insane. I’m kidding of course, well…mostly.  In truth, I’m not sure if someone just fed the girl WAY too much red bull or if she was just surfing the wave of positive guests we had today. … Continue reading

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Fork in the Road – At Sea – [08/18/2013]

Today is the first time we’ve done a final day of the cruise with no Crew Farwell to worry about. It’s a little less chaotic because we don’t have to run a thousand places at once, but it none the … Continue reading

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Passing the Torch – At Sea – [08/17/2013]

I have a little Shadow who goes in and out with me And what can be the use of her is more than I can see Actually that’s not true, it was just too good an opening quote to pass … Continue reading

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Sun Baked and Sure-Footed – Santorini, Greece – [08/16/2013]

If I were to post a picture of a herd of saddled donkeys lining a huge flight of winding steep steps chances are I wouldn’t even need to put in a quotation. It pretty much has to be Santorini. It’s … Continue reading

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How Slow the Moments Go – At Sea – [08/16/2013]

14 days. That’s it, 14 days. Surely I can keep my mouth shut for two tiny little weeks after not breathing a word for nearly 8 months. I mean it shouldn’t be that hard. It should fly, I mean it’s … Continue reading

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Dust of Civilization – Kushadasi, Turkey – [08/15/2013]

I always forget how hot Turkey is, and I definitely should have remembered to get water before I left the ship. Thankfully one of the nurses sharing the bus with me was kind enough to split her water with me, … Continue reading

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Days Like These – Lesbos – [08/14/2013]

Your mother warned you there’d be days like these – The Rembrandts There are days when my job is the most magical profession I can think of doing outside of being on stage. There are days when the adventures that … Continue reading

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Another Day at the Office – At Sea/Istanbul – [08/12/2013]

  There are moments that truly drive home that I have the most amazing – and yet the most bizarre – job in the world. How many office workers do you know who sit there on a normal day doing … Continue reading

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