I Have Survived.

[Bbbananas]

Just a quick hello to you all. I survived the Surgery Party. I survived my Birthday Celebrations and survived the Birthday Cruise. Just. Still have a dodgy ankle, but that was a pre-birthday injury.

Cruising is sooooo different to the sort of sailing I am used to. The entertainment is sooooo cheesey. I fell in love with the Ship's Entertainment Officer - the Lovechild of Liberace & Barry Manilow.

work tomorrow :-) Have I missed anything exciting or of major importance?

[Bobbisox]

Happy Belated birthday greetings salla, hope you had a fab time

[redman41]

Hi salla, pleased you had a good time.
Carry on sailing !

[rowanwitch]

glad you had a good time....no you didn't miss much

[Bbbananas]

I do prefer the 'real' sort. Rough, tough and closer to the actual water. But this was certainly an experience !! Read my write-up of it in the Saturday Telegraph.... Cruising Exposed (nothing to do with Hampstead Heath or New York toilets).

[craft1948]

Hello salla............what ship did you cruise on and where did you go?

[Bbbananas]

It was a relatively small cruise ship (800 people) - but huge compared to our usual vessel (36 ft, 6-berth) !!

We travelled down the Seine to Rouen, then back up the coast to Bruges. We never made Paris cos I had a dose of the Lenin Trotski's. A mini-cruise, as a taster really, to see if we'd enjoy a longer more exotic one next year. It was hilarious. Bruges is beautiful.

[Bbbananas]

Sorry Craft - the name of the ship was the Marco Polo.

[joggerjayne]

Hi, Sals ... x

Sounds fun.

I love Rouen, and Bruges.

[Bbbananas]

All those bars. All that chocolate.....!

[craft1948]

pmsl I've just looked at their cruise site and they are having a Titanic Memorial Cruise...................

[askyourgran]

Good way to celebrate a birthday. Happy birthday, everything will be boring after all that. Nothing major gone off, quiet really. Welcome back.

[rowanwitch]

Would you like ice with that madam.....

[Bbbananas]

Before you pysl too much - my BF was actually interested in that!! We do like holidays with, shall we say, an ironic bent or something to laugh at. Not as though huge fatalities due to iceberg is funny or anything, but the people on board these cruises are very entertaining.
We did meet some nice 'normal' people. But not many ;-)

[albaqwerty]

Welcome back Salla xxx