People love cruise tour for many reasons, but one thing I like very very much is … you can have a view of a familar city / port from totally new angles.
Category: Travel
So … who’s it for ?
Is cruise tour really for retired couples ? Or for someone …
- who loves great meals, wine and spirits 24 hours a day; or
- who treasures the excursions in each port the cruise visits; or
- who enjoys all the activities on board like rock climbing, karaoke, gymnastic, card game, mahjong, spa, art auction, nightly shows, bingo, casino, cooking and dancing class etc.; or
- who likes to make good friends in the tour; or
- who just wants to spend some quiet and private times in the library, champange bar and lounge ?
Or in fact, all of the above ?
Two wrongs made one right
Life is full of surprises, I was told. But one really would not expect this from a cruise tour … imagine you had 2,000 passengers for a cruise, and there was no departure hall. Yes, even though I have online checked in, I still needed to queue up with all the passengers in a shopping mall for 3 hours just to get the boarding pass. No wonder we need a new cruise pier in our city, badly.
The second surprise was even more unexpected, the ship traveled over 700 nautical miles in 36 hours to the first port of call – Naha of Okinawa, Japan. And then found that the port was closed because of bad weather … then the captain decided to cancel the visit to that beautiful city, and an U-turn to go straight to the next port – Keelung, Taiwan. What a shame ?!
So, what’s the one right ? At least, I took one photo of Naha – i.e. just the sea. Bad weather ? You must be kidding …
It’s gone …
It’s really sad, a national symbol and treasure to Koreans around the world, Namdaemun was destroyed by a fire in last Sunday night. Namdaemun, South Korea’s oldest wooden structure, was built more than 600 years ago and stood at the center of Seoul, having served as a main gate into the capital for centuries. A picture I took some months back …
Cities my friend has visited
I admitted that I am not a fan of Facebook, but still I can learn something new from it once in a while. For example, there is one application in Facebook called “Cities I’ve visited” – you can tell (read … impress) your friends how many cities you’ve visited thru a Google Map interface. I suppose the more cities you pin down on the map, it means the more time (0r money) you have.
And here is a screen shot of one of my friend’s map – guess what … 826 cities in 92 countries … amazing !!
M.Y. Lessons Learnt 