Blogs from Atlantis, Atlantic, Oceans and Seas - page 35

Geo: 17.0817, -61.8077Sunday 05/04/09 St Johns - Antigua Temps Air 28°C Sea 27°C Our berth once again is ideally placed being right alongside the city's main waterfront, straight off the ship to the many bars & cafes. Although it's Sunday the place is already humming as already berthed is the Holland-America Lines ship Maarsdam, and 15 minutes after our arrival the Fred Olsen Lines Booddica arrived and there's another due in later in the day We'd booked a 4 x 4 excursion to the centre of the island, which in view of the number of visitors now deposited on the island seems like a lucky choice. Off we lurched in our LR Defender through the city with our guide pointing out local points of interest, he was a proper laugh, so chilled, no problems man; up ... read more

Geo: -21.105, 55.5249Monday 02/02/09 At Sea, Hot & Sunny, Temps Air 27°C Sea 29°C I'm naming today Digital Disaster Day on account of all the problems I'm having with a ship load of passengers who just haven't got the faintest of what they're doing and the on board staff who are used to working to the lowest common dominator and forgetting that there are some intelligent people on board. It all started 2 weeks ago when I joined up for an advanced photographic editing workshop after 50 minutes I'd learnt nothing new and the topics I wanted to explore still hadn't been gone over with the time still dwindling away I had to leave the course which had already over run it's timeslot by 25 minutes as it was time for evening dinner, I was assured ... read more

Geo: 16.6849, 98.512Une journee au MyanmarOne day trip to Myanmar--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien.Nous avons decide d'aller faire un tour au Myanmar.Nous avons prit 1 heure avant de trouver un taxi pick-up Puis finalement pensant que c'etait le taxi, Rejean a "heler" un pick-up bleu, de la meme couleur que le taxi.En realite la dame etait radiologiste et allait a son travail avec le taxi de son defunt mari.Nous voulions savoir le prix pour finalement se rendre conte qu'elle nous a conduis a la frontiere. C'etait du pouce que l'on fesait sans le savoir.Nous n'avons pas vue de camps de refugier mais il en a plusieurs ici. Plusieurs milliers de personnes attendent leur visa. Cela peut prendre jusqu'a 10 ans. On a traverser que pour quelques h... read more

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Geo: 44.8048, 20.4781After a long, suffering over night bus ride, we arrived in Belgrade at 8am . It had a very different feel to it than Bosnia and Croatia. We didn't waste time any time and headed straight to the hostel. It was a bit of shame that we couldn't check in yet. So we hung around the common room which was in the basement- nice and cool too! The guy at reception warned us that today was going to be a very hot day, near 50 degrees. After we cooled nap and had a little snooze on the lounge we ventured out into the heat. It was unbearable! We managed to drag our feet to a little unknown place called McDonalds. It was one of those times where you just want to go somewhere where ... read more