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Published: August 30th 2006
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V-Go Cruise Shıp
This is the boat that we lived on for 4 days and 3 nights Hello agaın. Latest and last blog postıng from Turkey for thıs trıp. At the moment I am in Antalya, on my way to getting to Damascus by Saturday. Which means the Turkey portion of my vacation is effectively over.
So, to bring things up to date, for most of the last five days I was on a cruise through the southern Mediteranian going from Fethiye to Olympos. The ship we were on had 16 passengers (sort of 18 but I’ll get to that in a sec) and three crew members. Nationalities consisted of one Canadian (myself) one Swede, and the rest Austrailian and American. About nine of the people on the boat was a loose group of backpackers who had all been working together for the summer on the bars of Ios in Greece. For everyone who knows about Ios’ reputation as an island, you will know that this means that they are hardcore party people. Which made for quite an interesting boat. So that was 16 of the people on the boat, thes other two were a Turkish honeymoon couple who spoke barely any english. They were so out of place and the rest of us felt sorry for
Captain George
His actual name is Mohammad, but we called him George because he looks like George W Bush. George understood and approved of the nickname. them, but there was really nothing anyone could do about it. So they actually got off at the first port we stopped at on the second day. But oh well.
Anyway, overall the cruise was excellent. The boat crew was very professional, the captain had about 25 years experience, the food was extremely impressive, some of the best food I’ve had while travelling in a very long time, and overall a very fun time was had by all. Essentially the events of the four days were cruising around the Mediteranian, stopping at maybe one port each day for a few hours, relaxing and reading and socializing on the boat during the day, and drinking during the evening. It was a very hard life.
The title of this blog comes from a song that one of the Austrailian girls Jess had on a CD from somewhere. Nobody had any idea of the name of the song or who sung it, but it was one of the most hilarious songs I’ve ever heard. The chorus consisted of no words, but just a guy who for all the world sounded like he was so incredibly drunk that he had lost the
Sunrise Day 3
6:30 AM no wind, no clouds, no sound, lying on the deck of the boat watching an amazing sunrise over the sea capability of speech, and was just making random sounds out of his mouth that were supposed to be words, but didn’t quite get there. So imagine what that sounds like, then imagine 16 drunken people singing along to this song, and that was what our boat was like pretty much continuously. I’m not sure that our crew loved us all that much, as I’m sure that a group of middle aged couples would have been much easier to take care of, but they did do a very good job of cleaning up all the glassware that inevitably got broken, and they never complained at all about us that I’m aware of. So it was quite good. We actually had people from other boats wanting to come on to our boat since we were known as the fun boat.
The last night on the boat was Disco night, since all the boats were anchored in the same harbour, and we got shuttled over to an open air dance club that had been built specifically for the purpose of all the boats. So all the people from all the boats got shuttled over, and and we all got insanely drunk and
Boat Deck
Lying on the boat and catching rays. Also where most people slept since the actual sleeping cabins were really stuffy. partied until the very early hours of the morning. All quite fun. After passing out on the front deck of the ship at 4 AM, most of us woke up much later, and then we docked at our final harbour, where a bus picked us up and we went to Olympos, which is this very strange backpacker / hippies from the 1960s place that is very out of touch with reality, in Turkey or anywhere else. It was highly recommended by my friend Steve, and highly not recommended by my friend Tom. I didn’t know what to make of it, other than it is one of those places I can believe that travellers have been living there for weeks, months, years or even decades and have never left. I was not able to follow suit, since by doing the cruise I pushed my time in Turkey to the limit, and I now have to hightale it to Syria in the next three days to be there in time for my tour. So all the boat people spent one more night together in Olympos, but we were so exhausted from the night before that everyone just went to bed in their
Kekova harbour
Turkish port village of Kekova (I think), population of about 100. Some of us hiked up to the castle at the top to get a view of the harbour air conditioned little huts, which I did too since I’ll probably be on night buses for the next few nights.
So overall conclusions from the boat trip is that it was extremly worthwhile, although I should caution that while the people on our boat had no issues with V-Go, some of the other boats did, in that one of the other V-Go boats that left the same day we did had 11 people, 9 girls and 2 guys, which was apparently done intentionally by the sleazy captain who wanted as many girls as he could get on his boat to flirt with. Not impressive. So everyone on our boat lucked out hugely, because this particular boat appeared to be one of the very best, and not everyone fared as well as we did.
So anyway, that is all I have for now. I will post again if I can from Syria, although I am unclear about the internet situation in that country, Syria not really having free speech and all. So if you see a blog from me prasing the wise government of Bashar Assad and decrying American Imperialism, then you never know, I may be at the
The Last Supper (or lunch)
Our last meal onboard the shiıp mercy of Syrian censors 😊. So take care all, and talk to you whenever.
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