Woke up kind of late, but still managed to get some coffee and do some reading before cleaning up for breakfast. Learning how to work the buffet system - turns out you can ask them to make you eggs to order. Off to the church. Turns out the little hill up to the church from …
Continue reading England trip, Day 6: first day of rehearsal
Good news, I realized that my other converter, which isn't a universal one, it's just for UK/US, and which has been plugged into the wall behind the bed for my CPAP machine, has 3 prongs. So my laptop is happily charging. Travel problems, every day a new one, but glad I remembered that I had …
In real time (now), we're in week 2 and have two more days of rehearsal until the show. Going quite well! I don't know how much more blogging I will be able to do before I get home. Note to self - when you travel to a foreign land where you need to use your …
Continue reading England Trip Day 4: London to Buxton (7/30)
Woke up quite early, but just lay in bed and read internets and drank water until it was time to get cleaned up. Went to breakfast, decided to try the bacon butty. Again, the meat ratio too heavy, removed the meat halfway through. Very easy to get to Paddington for the train. However, it turned …
(I'm now far enough behind that I'm compelled to note that this was the last Sunday in July.) Had a decent night's sleep, even though I woke up suddenly at 12:30 am for no apparent reason - this didn't correspond to my EST clock in any particular way. But slept the rest of the night …
Back in the day, I used to be really good about associating a trip report to the correct date, regardless of when I actually wrote it or posted it. I'm not quite sure how to do that in WordPress, and who cares anyway. It's currently Wed. July 31, day 5 of the trip, and I'm …
OK, so yesterday started with finding out that a dear friend passed away. It wasn't a surprise, she'd been quite ill for a while. I'm really grateful that I got have lunch with her a couple of months ago, where she actually was rallying, but still frail. But... sad. She was lovely and had, I …
OK, so this is specifically about the cruise itself, what I paid for, and what I got. Quick background: this was my eight cruise and third on Carnival. Carnival is the lowest-end cruise line I've been on and I've jokingly called it 'the tackiest cruise line'. This ship and cruise wasn't particularly tacky (no wet …
Continue reading Cruise Review: Carnival Venezia, NYC to Bermuda
OK, we're on Day 3 (Saturday) and the ship has just pulled out of Bermuda. It's late afternoon. I lounged around. At some point, and I don't remember when, I went to the casino, pulled $20 off my onboard account, and played poker slots for a while. (I'd found the casino very confusing, had to …
So, as I've said here and elsewhere, I've been to Bermuda twice before. In 1987, my parents and I, plus two friends, did the most amazing thing... we sailed to Bermuda from Maryland. I'll have to write about that trip in detail at some point, it was fantastic (although somewhat grueling). I'd never ocean-sailed before, …
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