I look back to my first “long haul” cruise which was a transAtlantic from Genoa to Bueno Aries on MSC back in 2007. I was sailing with a friend and colleague. For various reasons, we both just wanted out of Heidelberg and away from the Army for a couple of weeks. Also, leave to burn – always…. The ship was the MSC Simphonia (I looked it up), five languages were standard and my best assesment of the food can be found here in the Day 10 post..
Our inside cabin was buried somewhere in the middle of the ship – I don’t eve remember where. I know that I spent almost no time there. Plus my cabin mate was studying for an exam.
(if you are interested – the old blog posts are Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, etc since the link to the next day. Of note – the ship had let us board without Brazil visas – and it was like “Oh you have to get off here if you don’t have them – so Day 5 in Lisbon was devoted to getting our visas. Other than that – I was extremely consistent about detailing Travel, Knitting, Audiobooks. Oh, and exercising.
but be aware when I transferred the blog from my German site to the US in 2015, the photos didn’t get transferred. I still have most of them, but it would be hours and hours to upload them. I am not sure that anyone really cares…..
So anyway – the most important item on the ship –
This is the new fancy coffee machine that has replaced the old WMF machines. It is easy to operate – just pick first your category (Caf – decaf) then pick what kind of coffee you want. It is available 24 hours a day, important if you are an early riser.
Otherwise? I hit two Webinars (followed by an email exchange with UCSD since I have NO phone acccess – internet, yes, but no phone. iMessage works between Apple products but doesn’t go anywhere else) about getting credit. Retry the message- ok, but it doesn’t work. I don’t have phone access….
And the Valkyries lost in overtime… So there will be Game 3 of the first round on Friday night.
