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MADE IN INDONESIA 26 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
We serve of them on average of 600 portions each cruise here on the Carnival Legend and their popularity keeps on rising. There was a public outcry when due to droughts in Indonesia, we could not sou...
A BLOG WITH NO SODDING TITLE BECAUSE IT’S 6:45AM AND I CAN’T THINK OF ONE 24 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
So this is our last Baltic cruise and, goodness me, it has gone quickly. Next cruise, we will be in the Norwegian fjords and I will be talking about this in more detail on the next blog posting. Has t...
An interview with Carnival Corporation & plc’s new CEO, Mr. Arnold Donald 20 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
My wife Heidi runs a very tight domestic ship. With me traveling and being away as much as I am, she runs the household completely. Heidi pays the all the bills and makes sure my subscription to “Latv...
THE NEW PICKLE BAR SCHEDULE….BUGGER…. I MEANT THE NEW PIANO BAR SCHEDULE 3 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
“It’s too loud — are you trying to kill people in there?”……..and with that a very upset elderly British lady waved her hand in my face as I tried to talk to her and stomped out of the lounge. Hello...
WEINERS AND BARBIES 1 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
My daughter Kye no longer loves that purple bastard dinosaur or the bag of sausages sometimes known as Peppa Pig. Nope, they are gone and forgotten because my daughter Kye, aged four …….. now loves Ba...
A ROYAL PAIN …………..AND AN UPDATED CD SCHEDULE 30 Jul 2013 | 01:10 am
So as everyone else is still talking about Prince George……so will I. And just in case Prince William reads this blog (why wouldn’t he?), I thought that as George reaches a week old, I would give Will...
SHOW ME SHOWS 17 Jul 2013 | 10:24 pm
I was talking with a fellow cruise director a few days ago and as we chatted on the satellite phone — me in Dover, UK, and my colleague just waking up in the western Caribbean — he told me about the d...
NO FLY ZONE 16 Jul 2013 | 04:29 am
Yesterday while the Carnival Legend was bobbing about in the beautiful harbour of Tallinn, Estonia, I headed up to the spa for a haircut. Actually, that’s bollocks. Because in today’s metrosexual w...
IT USED TO BE THAT EVERYTHING WAS EXCELLENT 12 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
In recent years, when I would walk around the ship I would see toddlers and younger children who were not enjoying the fun at Camp Carnival playing with teddy bears, toys and whatever is on the table…...
CRUISE SHIP WORLD………….OPENING SOON………….HOPEFULLY 9 Jul 2013 | 11:40 pm
One day, there won’t be any cruise ships. Obviously not in our generation or even maybe the next or indeed the one after that, but one day man will move from A to B using personal jetpacks and vacati...
