Category: South America

Someone somewhere, in a very cushy seat of power, has decreed that to abide by the law, cruise ships must now hold an emergency drill for the passengers every two weeks. It used to be that everyone would congregate in their muster stations on the day of embarkation, before the ship sets sail, to be shown how to don a...

This morning, it took me almost one whole hour to send two emails and load a simple web page, operations that at home would have took me no more than a few minutes. The ship’s wi-fi can be cranky at the best of times, but today it was running slower than a snail on crutches. As I watched the little...

Today, we were at sea; the first of three full sea-days that will eventually bring us to our first South American port, Natal, in Brazil. It was also a non-class day, so after breakfast, we headed up to the front of the ship to blow away the cobwebs (as we like to do of a morning), and watch the first...