Tag: Game of Thrones

Who Ever Thought They Would Actually BE on the Bay of Biscay? Really.

on deck criooedWe’re sailing from A Coruña to France today so no stops.  It should be a lazy day be we keep sitting with people at meals and the four or six of us close the dining room every time – for every meal.  Lots of interetsing people with amazing stories.  Can’t miss any.

We’re up on deck now though, by the pool; it’s a bit chilly but they give us big orange blankets and the sun is shining.  Right now Van Morrison is singing Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? and the pool has this soothing wave machine.  There are waiters bringing us coffee to ward off the chill.

me blanket

I am still in the first Game of Thrones plus Mark Leibovich’s story about the battle to succeed Henry Waxman so I’m set (except that I’m very guilty to be at Winterfell instead of somewhere more learned) but I am having such a good time with them!

We were really ready for this day after all that exploring!  Tomorrow, Cherbourg and (depending on logistics, Mont St-Michel.

 

So Many Stories

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Evening, out the window.

There are some amazing people here.  Wander around looking for a poolside table for lunch and two people look up and say, “Join us.”    They turn out to be a pair of characters with whom we share enormous common ground – in broadcasting, in travel, in life.

Go to Trivia at noon and be outclassed at every turn (an unfamiliar experience, I might add.)  Meet two couples who’ve sailed around the world and several who’ve hit most of it.  All full of stories and curiosity and an unfettered sense of adventure. Hyperion

Spend a couple of hours on the private patio; wander upstairs to check out the gym and the spa then downstairs to the “book swap” to find an old favorite I would have rated “highly unlikely” to be along on a trip like this.

Then I met a Game of Thrones couple who had never heard of Hyperion and were thrilled when I went back to the give away and brought it to them.  A perfect cruise reminder:  never assume anything about anyone.  Don’t.

I guess that’s true in general but out here on the sea it’s particularly so.  Physical therapist or CEO, accountant or fashionista, nobody is predictable and almost everybody is as eager to meet you as you are to meet them.  An openness to discovery – of new places, people, food, books and ideas dominates.

A lecture on tomorrow’s destination filled the large auditorium.  It’s a kind of floating grad school dorm for grownups. In other words, as we move toward our first stop in Tangier in about eight hours, we’re a bunch of excited, curious, energetic travelers who also just happen to be living on a ship where this appeared at the foot of our bed tonight.

Yes, he’s a towel wearing Rick’s sunglasses and holding the info on our next stop in his paws.  Goodnight for now, from Rick, me and the bunny. Rabbit bed