It turns out you can’t get into the Channel Islands, at least not St. Peter’s Port, in Guernsey, without a small boat called a “tender” to take you into the small harbor from the large ship that won’t fit. It turns out that if the seas are rough and it’s raining, traveling in those tenders is way too dangerous, so stopping at Guernsey is not possible.
Our view of the journey
It turns out that there were no available ports or pilots to provide an alternative so it turns out that we spent the whole day sailing down the Seine to Rouen, where we’re currently docked.
The trip was green and beautiful and rain-swept. We had nice long lunches and dinners with very cool people on board. Share the view; tomorrow we’re going exploring and taking you along.
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Before moving online, she had a long and distinguished career as a broadcast journalist, as senior national editor of National Public Radio, political and planning producer of NBC's Today Show (whose audience is 75% women) where she worked for nine years (and was also the primary producer on issues relating to child care, education, learning disabilities and child development), and as the first executive producer of Channel One, a daily news broadcast seen in 12,000 U.S. high schools. She has published a children’s book: It’s A Free Country, a Young Person’s Guide to Politics and Elections (Atheneum, 1988) and numerous children’s book reviews in the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World.
A creator of online content since 1994, Samuels is a partner at The Cobblestone Team, LLC, is married to a doctor and recent law school graduate and has two grown sons who make video games, two amazing daughters-in-law and three adorable grandsons.
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Great article. It is quite unfortunate that over the last one decade, the travel industry has already been able to to deal with terrorism, SARS, tsunamis, bird flu virus, swine flu, and the first ever true global economic depression. Through all this the industry has really proven to be sturdy, resilient plus dynamic, discovering new strategies to deal with trouble. There are usually fresh problems and the possiblility to which the field must once more adapt and answer.
Great article. It is quite unfortunate that over the last one decade, the travel industry has already been able to to deal with terrorism, SARS, tsunamis, bird flu virus, swine flu, and the first ever true global economic depression. Through all this the industry has really proven to be sturdy, resilient plus dynamic, discovering new strategies to deal with trouble. There are usually fresh problems and the possiblility to which the field must once more adapt and answer.