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After a successful call at Israel we sailed away last night from Haifa heading towards Turkey. To reach our next port of call, Antalya, we are spending a day at sea and pass the South West side of Cyprus. As a matter of fact we could see Cyprus on our starboard side for most of the afternoon at a distance of about 12 nautical miles. If all goes well we will arrive at Antalya at 8 am tomorrow morning. Antalya is historic town located on the south coast of Turkey. **The area which is now Turkey was for most of its history a battleground between various empires and the results are still very visible today. This means that Museums and Ruins are an important part of most of the tours which our guests can take. Nothing has really changed to the current day as the Middle East continues to rumble on with Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. I wonder if 2000 years from now mankind will gaze at artifacts left behind by our period of time in the same way as we are doing now. History is being written every day and the nice thing is with a cruise, we can sail from location to location to have a look at what was written in the past. In the meantime life on board goes on and the guests are all recuperating from two intensive days in Israel. When I went for breakfast this morning at 06.30 I was the only one there for a while, a new experience as we have quite a few early risers on board. Normally the Gym is already active by 0600. But this morning it was me and two cooks in the Lido who greeted a beautiful sunny day at sea. My task today was to create mayhem in the ship and then to give the ship’s crew the chance to get things under control again.* The law requires every ship to conduct a fire drill once a week on top of whatever training that might take place to retain the proficiency of the crew. With […]
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After a successful call at Israel we sailed away last night from Haifa heading towards Turkey. To reach our next port of call, Antalya, we are spending a day at sea and pass the South West side of Cyprus. As a matter of fact we could see Cyprus on our starboard side for most of the afternoon at a distance of about 12 nautical miles. If all goes well we will arrive at Antalya at 8 am tomorrow morning. Antalya is historic town located on the south coast of Turkey. **The area which is now Turkey was for most of its history a battleground between various empires and the results are still very visible today. This means that Museums and Ruins are an important part of most of the tours which our guests can take. Nothing has really changed to the current day as the Middle East continues to rumble on with Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. I wonder if 2000 years from now mankind will gaze at artifacts left behind by our period of time in the same way as we are doing now. History is being written every day and the nice thing is with a cruise, we can sail from location to location to have a look at what was written in the past. In the meantime life on board goes on and the guests are all recuperating from two intensive days in Israel. When I went for breakfast this morning at 06.30 I was the only one there for a while, a new experience as we have quite a few early risers on board. Normally the Gym is already active by 0600. But this morning it was me and two cooks in the Lido who greeted a beautiful sunny day at sea. My task today was to create mayhem in the ship and then to give the ship’s crew the chance to get things under control again.* The law requires every ship to conduct a fire drill once a week on top of whatever training that might take place to retain the proficiency of the crew. With […]
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