Having sailed on more large ships than small, I forget how reactive to wind and wave are the smaller ships. The height of waves that would not budge a any ship sailed by Norwegian, Royal, MSC are causing this particular vessel to bob and weave along with it’s forward momentum.
In the middle of this, I was contacted by the front office to inform me that I could move early to my new cabin… Huh? The cabin that your home office emailed me about that I would have for both legs of the trip? That one? Turns out it has been vacant this past leg and they were never informed…. So that is on me, I should have brought the email to their attention days ago.
OTOH – we were on Deck 4 in around the center of the ship. It was incredibly stable. Not so my new location on Deck 5. We are four cabins back from the bow of the ship and I can really feel the movement. Certainly a huge amount more than I notice even going down to Deck 3. Deck 3 is where the med center is located. We all experienced the swab up the nose again since the Portuguese authorities require testing on everyone who is entering Portugal.
I didn’t include this particular photo yesterday. I needed time to think about it. As we came down the mountain in the gondolas, there were a few, rare buildings that were falling down. Something that I found unexpected. The land is limited and I would have expected rebuilding. Whether directly or from sale of the property and someone else building fancy and new. –
but traveling over several buildings with no roofs, walls standing and vegetation well started inside took me back to more than one helicopter flight in the Balkans. One of the major ways to force out neighbors during the Balkan Conflict was to force out the family at gun point, turn on the gas, close al the windows and doors, followed by leaving candles burning in the attic. The build up of natural gas would happen, the house would explode and burn, leaving only walls…
Sometimes mental connections aren’t always positive. I think it is time to take a nap…