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Category Archives: Grand Cruises
You Were Supposed to Have Been Immortal – Buenos Aires – [01/23/2012
She had her moments…she had some style, the best show in town was the crowd outside the Casa Rosada crying ‘Eva Peron’…but that’s all gone now. But who is this Santa Evita, why all this howling hysterical sorrow? When I … Continue reading
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Swinging on a Star – At Sea – [01/21-22/2012]
I’m tempted to begin this with “it all started in Rio” Which, I suppose, in a way it did. When one is asked for details, one is often hard-pressed to try and provide them, especially since the truth is likely … Continue reading
Trial by Fire – At Sea – [01/20/2012]
When I was in University, my best friend’s stepfather used to compare her and I to engineers on Star Trek. Three days before a deadline, convinced we could never do it, we would panic… Sir! There’s no possible way we … Continue reading
When my Baby Smiles at Me I Go to ….Rio – [01/20/2012]
They all get sucked in by the lobby Palm trees finger the sky and there’s enough sunshine to lay some off on Pittsburgh But that’s all on top… That’s a total paraphrase, as that quote is actually about Los Angeles. … Continue reading
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From the Soul – [01/18/2012]
When you make a cake, can you taste the eggs? That’s what my parents used to say about a really good band, about how they fit together: that it wasn’t about any one soloist, no matter how big a name … Continue reading
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Of Silver and Black Extremes – At Sea – [01/14/2012]
Welcome to the first ball of the season. Well of this cruise anyway. The show lounge glittered in its coating of black and silver and so did we. As I’ve said before, balls are a job of work. This time … Continue reading
“An Afterthought” (From The Daily Sketch, Thursday April 18, 1912 )
For the first and last time, I post something here I did not write…but it’s in my head…and has been since I saw the Oasis of the Seas…so here it is… From The Daily Sketch, Thursday April 18, 1912 “AN … Continue reading
On the ‘impossible’ – At Sea – [01/14/2012]
In every age mankind attempts to fabricate great works At once magnificent And impossible On the very very small chance that someone reads these pages who does not know me, who has stumbled across this in some other manner – … Continue reading
Miasma – Belem, Brazil – [01/13/2012]
The first thing that strikes you about the port city of Belem, is the smell. This is not the musty, incense laced smell of India, or the humid floral perfume of Costa Rica and Dominica, this is the unmitigated smell … Continue reading
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Handprint on my Heart – Roseau, Dominica – [01/09/2012]
The last time I saw my Sister, I was standing on the cruise ship dock in Victoria watching her walk through the suddenly impenetrable barrier of the chain-link fence that separates the passenger/crew only portion of the dock from the … Continue reading