Venezia!

Aaah, venice with your open sewers and creepy carnival masks, you're so romantic!
We disembarked this morning and spent a few sunny leisurely hours wandering up and down canals around the piazza de roma before grabbing a pizza and beer for lunch and mozy-ed onto marco polo airport where I've just had the best coffee of the week and debbie is passed out in the departure lounge. about to board the flight home and long train journey back to the diff.

Cruise culture

Yesterday was 'easter saturday' at sea. Perfect - a time to catch up with done reading, drawing and music listening. Although it did feel like a lot of finding a spot on deck for half an hour only for the wind to pick up and for a tea break to raise it's head.
It was decided we would partake of some 'classes'. In the morning it was mask painting - painting a selected pallet of pink, green, yellow, brown and black onto a creepy plain face ' venetiaAn' style mask. It was difficult not to make it hella drag, and I'm sure it's a hit with the trans-gendered community on board. My mask was fierce if I may say so. Debbie did managed to get more glitter on her than her mask which was pretty impressive. We later decided to give the masks away as easter gifts. Lucky people.

Rhodes

"what's Rhodes like?"
"you drive cars down them"
A heavily fortified port town that appears to have had it's fair share of power struggles and handlers over the years. We had a good amble through the walled old town, ate some dolmade and greek salad in the sun. Had we more time, it would've been good to see more of the island, but as discovered yesterday, that's not necessarily the point of cruising ;)
So now I can see our tug readying to drag us out of harbor as we set sail towards the damnation coast and Dubrovnik. I'm looking forward to my day at sea, reading, drawing and maybe a game of bowls on deck!

Yissaou!

I think it's thursday. I've still not managed to upload my blogging, but still intend to write this bastard thing till the end for the heil of it. Yesterday we arrived in grecian waters and stopped at the port of katakolon, famous for being near olympia, the birth place of the games. Shunning any organized excursions, we decided to explore the untouched mediterranean backwater and while away the afternoon lounging on golden sands. It seems katakolon's economy is driven by the cruise industry and the consumers it delivers every day. So after a cup of greek coffee and a walk along a disheveled sad beach we got back on board the fortuna and a sleepless night being tossed and bashed about by choppy european waters. This morning we did find ourselves awake for a golden champagne sunrise through the islands of santorini.

Toot toot, all aboard!

Belated Monday 18th April
Well, this is a report on the first full day at sea. I did write a rather long post yesterday on our first day of travel and my initial apprehensive thoughts on the  matter of spending the next week on a cruise ship. Technology failed my uploading and seemed to have erased my post, so I will consider it gone and attempt to carry on writing this blogiary over the coming days - both to satisfy my ego (which I failed to destroy during a lucid dream two nights ago) and empty my potentially cabin fever-addled mind.

Toot toot, all aboard!

Well, this is a report on the first full day at sea. I did write a rather long post yesterday on our first day of travel and my initial apprehensive thoughts on the matter of spending the next week on a cruise ship. Technology failed my uploading, so I will consider it gone and attempt to carry on writing this blogiary over the coming days - both to satisfy my ego (which I failed to destroy during a lucid dream two nights ago) and empty my cabin addled mind.