still can't upload images for some crazy reason! my life is so boring unless it's illustrated! hopefully i can get some uploaded soon! (amity if you see this - help!)
went to the fiordland national park in new zealand today - weather perfect (V. cold!) for most the day - bright and sunny for the morning part - and grey and raining (typical!) for the rest of the day! gorgeous landscape but not many sightings of wildlife. one seal and many birds.
cruising is a very hygenic environment! you have to have your hands glossed with anti-bacterial dry wash before entering an eating station! staff clean their hands with it all the time. it's very strange as you feel that you can't sneeze without infecting someone - and considering the average age on this cruise is at least 60/65 - you could be a mass murder!
most of the people i have met are real cruisers - they go on at least one cruise a year. this is a cult and i am afriad that we will all become members with age. it is a good way to travel, but v, strange. the crew is from all over the world and yet some i have spoken with aren't v. happy with their jobs. long hours, small cabins and i'm not sure about the pay - but it does seem a bit 'disney world' with them having to be cheery each morning saying ' good morning ma'am' and i'm not used to that. you have to go through that four or five times to just get juice in the am and i'm not kidding.
we had a 'formal night' last night and got all dressed up. my father looked v. hansom and my hair was a wreck! sea air for you! some of the 'get-ups' were AMAZINGLY revealing for 50-70 year olds. and then there was the woman i spotted in my M&S dress - yes - we own the same dress! thank GOD i didn't wear it on the same night! it would have been too embarrassing! but as my father said, no one would have recognised it as the same dress as she was wearing it as a long dress and mine is MUCH shorter (and a couple of sizes smaller!)
i know i sound very bitchy, and i don't mean too! but it is a different world and yet strangely the same.
tomorrow our first port - port chalmers and the town of dunedin in new zealand. leslie - you will be proud that i found out there is a pub where gwyneth paltrow and chris martin hung out - so i wil drag my father to make a stop to the 'STAR PUB'. only the best for us in the big city of dunedin! we have a wildlife cruise in the am and left to wander on our own in the pm.
maybe by tomorrow i can post some images and stop boring you with my commentary!
love to you all!
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