Again part of the fun with the Lofoten
Fugly cruise ships.
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Again part of the fun with the Lofoten
It's big business in Southampton - I think I remember that they contribute something like £2bn a year to the local economy (happy to be corrected). Seeing a couple moored up on a switch around day is quite a sight. One of the moorings is right opposite Ikea and the larger ships tower over it. Nothing the size of an Ikea should float!
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- The TerrorVortex
I'd be happy to see the Blue and Yellow Shed of Doom sunk myself.
Anyways, while mega cruise ships are indeed ugly as sin (a strange expression, I've always found sin strangely attractive myself), we had a thoroughly nice time on Magellan on a cruise to some fjords last summer. It actually looks like a ship, rather than a floating city.
Capacity for about a thousand people IIRC, but more like 700 on our trip.
Ours was the cabin behind the first lifeboat.
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I did a Göta canal cruise on this boat.
The canals link some very large inland seas. I think there were about forty passengers on the voyage I did. It starts in Göteborg and ends in Stockholm. After a few days in Stockholm, I travelled back to Göteborg by train.
I did not know at the time, that @Dayvo was in Stockholm, as I had only recently joined Cyclechat.
The canals link some very large inland seas. I think there were about forty passengers on the voyage I did. It starts in Göteborg and ends in Stockholm. After a few days in Stockholm, I travelled back to Göteborg by train.
I did not know at the time, that @Dayvo was in Stockholm, as I had only recently joined Cyclechat.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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- Craggy Island
Is that the one Timothy West and Prunella Scales sailed on in that recent series about them travelling along a variety of canals??
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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- Craggy Island
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I have only seen a few episodes of Timothy West and Prunella Scales on canal trips in this county, not any of the ones abroad.
M/S Juno and M/S Diana are very similar to the Wilhelm Tham.
M/S Juno and M/S Diana are very similar to the Wilhelm Tham.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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- Craggy Island
I think it was the first two episodes in the most recent series.
They met Krister Hendrikson AKA Wallander too, except that he looked like he needed a good wash.
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
On long distance fishing boats, they stick you in the refrigerated fish hold.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
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- Kirton, Devon.
Is it lost?
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I never asked.
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
Yebbut QE2 was built as a liner, only becoming a cruise ship when the liner trade had died. Many ex liners were converted for cruising and fine looking vessels they were.Compare that to a REAL cruise ship from half a century ago.....
Anyway, with modern cruise ships its not the sweeping curves of the hull that gain plus points with prospective passengers, it's the number of restaurants, swimming pools or bars.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
.....and don't forget to tell the person who stitches up the shroud to put the last stitch through the nose to be sure that the person really is dead.......A bit of old tarpaulin and a couple of 14lb shot should suffice....
......tot of rum anybody?
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Brandane
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- Costa Clyde
And that tells me all I need to know about the type of people who go on cruises, generally! 'Tis my idea of hell. Expensive hell. All those bars are making a fortune too, as they charge shore side prices for alcohol which is not subject to tax. When I were a lad back in 1978 etc. etc. - on board prices were completely tax free. A 26oz bottle of spirits cost 95 pence, or 5p per measure at the bar (paid for by an honesty box system). The can of coke/lemonade whatever to put in it cost 3 times as much at 15p! 200 cigarettes was £2.20. Dirt cheap, even then. No wonder so many Merchant seamen were heavy smoking alcoholics; all of which I believe has been clamped down on and many cargo ships are now "dry".
