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Published: March 27th 2011
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18 March. Awoke to yet more grey landscape and it is beginning to be very irritating now. Around 10ish we were passing very close to land and were told these were the outlying islands around Hong Kong. The ship was anchoring out to see and tenders were to be used to transport passengers ashore. All this was very exciting because this was the first time this had happened during the cruise. The...
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Alison
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hello
So you've seen a murder suspect, two earthquakes and a Tsunami. We were flooded after returning from that ship. And you're about to sail thru a war zone - as exocets are fired from Italy towards Libya... hmmmmmmmm.... if that's the pestilence - you just need a disease. Does Raffles still have Singapore Sling on draught? And monkey nut shells all over the floor in the Long bar? And the man you saw being arrested - here's the latest on the story: "A man has been charged by police in Hong Kong with the murder of a British woman whose body was discovered in a flat. Janet Gilson, 64, a Salvation Army worker from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, was found at her niece's property on Lamma Island on Saturday. It is understood the arrested man is the estranged husband of the victim's niece. Ms Gilson had been reported missing three days earlier by her niece. Police in Hong Kong would not confirm the identify of the suspect except to say he was an "expatriate". Mrs Fareed was quoted as telling Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper that the suspect being held for the past two days was her husband. He was arrested on Saturday and will appear in Eastern Magistrates' Court on Hong Kong Island on Tuesday morning. Ms Gilson reportedly suffered head injuries but police could not confirm if she had died from them. She had arrived in Hong Kong on 6 March and was last seen on Tuesday in the village of Tai Yuen Village. It emerged that she had retired only recently."