Ok, i will now pause and allow everyone 5 minutes to get out all of the gay jokes in their head about the title of this blog. Irish men age 30 and older: I've grown to respect a lot of Irish men in this country. I think the men here have a bad rap about being mean ol drunks or just drunks in general, but such is not the case. For sure there a few who are blackout, messed up dolts, like our neighbor Fergal or me friday night, but they're are a lot of what we like to pretend we [View Full Entry]

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I’m getting into the final stretch of my contract now. Still a good chunk of time left, but the end is in sight and soon I’ll be visiting ports for the last times. So this week, I’ve made a point to get out in the ports every day to see and do things. While on the Destiny, I went snorkeling and zip-lining in Antigua, but I hadn’t really seen much of the island itself. Thanks to friends in the Shore Ex department, I got onto a sightseeing and historical tour of the island: “the best of Antigua”. We had a great [View Full Entry]

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Resume de nos vacances mars 2008. Pendant q'on prend notre petit biere dans sud , les gens du quebec prends le chocolat chaud entre deux pelletes de neige. [View Full Entry]

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Oh how I wish I was a fish to swim in the deep blue sea. I would swim up and down and all around in laps of two or three. There would be no rules to follow,all fun down here. On land rules are trouble,a real pain in the rear. K.B. Butler Whenever you swim in the Caribbean, whether it is over the reef, in amongst the dark sunken roots of mangrove trees, or above sparkling white sands, you are sure to spot a fish or two darting and diving, making the most of the three dimensional wonderland. Bony fish, like [View Full Entry]

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Today is Pete's birthday. I made him a Key Lime Pie a Lo Belliard. We played dominoes with Perseverance and Non Linear last night on Perseverance. Non Linear leaving this afternoon for Deep Bay, a few miles North. We are staying put here till Tuesday, then we will go for Barbuda. The wind is finally going down. We are waiting for the seas to moderate some more. Looks like Tuesday through next Sunday we will be traveling. 1 island at a time. [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Antigua 8 days ago. Weather is not good. Pin down again. In Antigua you can get anything you want, 1st rate grocery stores!! Like in the USA. All for a price of course. [View Full Entry]

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No, we did not go AWOL, we just haven't had time to write...We are in Fallsmouth, Antigua. Long story, but we got up at 0400 Monday morning to traverse the Riviere Salee, the salt water marshes that divide Guadaloupe in to 2 islands. There are 2 bridges, the North bridge opens at 0430 and 0530, that's it. The South bridge opens at 0500, with South bound traffic having right of way. There were 3 of us sitting there in close proximity. The 1st was a catamaran professionally Captain by a local. And then 2 of us cruisers, the other being a [View Full Entry]

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Every month a different department on the ship is in charge of crew activities and entertainment. Things like crew parties, movie nights, themed crew bar evenings, bingos, etc. And today a crew-only tour was offered. For $10, we had a three hour catamaran tour. There wasn’t a big crowd, only about 35 crew members who went, but a handful that I know. I spent most of my time with Jody (the print shop technician, from South Africa), Anna (social host friend), the girls from the classical trio and Nikola (the fitness instructor who was trained with my Legend friend Ben, I [View Full Entry]

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The next port of call on this cruise was the island of Antigua in the capital city of St. John. Antigua, along with the nearby island of Barbuda, make up the independent country of Antigua and Barbuda. Today, we were lucky enough to have a bit of a sleep in as our excursion for the day didn't start until 9am. Initally, our plan was to do the Black Swan Pirate Ship excursion which consisted of a cruise around the harbor in Saint John, a mock pirate ship battle, as well as unlimited drinks at the bar. As cheesy as it [View Full Entry]

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I've been fighting a bit of funk the last few days. Feeling a bit homesick. Familiar fraustrations with work are back. I've doubted if I'll ever feel comfortable in the social world of this ship. I've been questionning my decision to cruise again, knowing my last experience won't be this experience and maybe it just won't be as good. But I spent some time remembering the reasons I chose to come back and recognizing the things I have power to control here. And I'm acting on that and focusing on that. The gym on the Destiny is fantastic. They recently got [View Full Entry]

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