Saturday February 18. Very warm with a shower in the afternoon.
Once again we have two lovely sea days to gather up our strength for a couple of 'interesting' days in Kochi, India.
I may have mentioned that we are now seated at a table for six with two amiable proper and pleasant couples. One are from the Essex area, they are about 15 to 18 years younger and joining us from Sri Lanka are a couple from the Midlands, retired police officers also in the same age group. The conversation is light and pleasant, exactly what we need and enjoy.
We have another 12 days on the ship and then our life changes, drastically. Morocco beckons! It will be an entirely different world for us then, goodbye tuxedos and dressing for dinners that we are all familiar with, and hello Arabs and their culture, which most of us are not familiar with. However I think We Four are looking forward to a change of pace and that adventure.
Our day today has been great, just the way we like it. breakfast with Jim and Gail, the Cutler's go their way and their exercise routine, Fellette swims and I walk. We then attended a talk on our next port, Kochi, where we have a night off-ship and on a houseboat. Another adventure awaits methinks.
I myself find it a bit confusing regarding changing names in various places in the world. Kochi was called Cochin up until some time ago, Bombay was changed to Mumbai, Burma has changed to Myanmar and Ceylon has changed to Sri Lanka. We try and do 'the right thing' and go with the modern names yet in these places the locals sometimes call them by their old names.
The same as our 'First Nations' at home in Canada. They seem to think that white folks should use the term 'First Nations' when they themselves often use the term 'Indians'. To me it is not disrespectful, just changing thinking. First Nations is an Indian way of letting us know that they were here first. We know that for crying out loud. However us late-comers certainly made life easier for the Indians by bring in things like cars, central heating, asphalt shingles, snowmobiles, healthcare, hospitals, airplanes and welfare. End of Rant!
The ship took on about 400 passengers a couple of days ago in Ceylon, oops, Sri Lanka. Some of them are going all the way to Dover in England, oops, Britain. Not a bad way to escape the colder British climate I would say, sailing from India to home via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, a voyage of about six weeks!
Tonight was another Captain's Welcome Reception for those who joined the ship in Ceylon, oops, Sri Lanka.
An easy and relaxing day for all of us I believe.
Nothing newsworthy in photos today, hang in...
Our day today has been great, just the way we like it. breakfast with Jim and Gail, the Cutler's go their way and their exercise routine, Fellette swims and I walk. We then attended a talk on our next port, Kochi, where we have a night off-ship and on a houseboat. Another adventure awaits methinks.
I myself find it a bit confusing regarding changing names in various places in the world. Kochi was called Cochin up until some time ago, Bombay was changed to Mumbai, Burma has changed to Myanmar and Ceylon has changed to Sri Lanka. We try and do 'the right thing' and go with the modern names yet in these places the locals sometimes call them by their old names.
The same as our 'First Nations' at home in Canada. They seem to think that white folks should use the term 'First Nations' when they themselves often use the term 'Indians'. To me it is not disrespectful, just changing thinking. First Nations is an Indian way of letting us know that they were here first. We know that for crying out loud. However us late-comers certainly made life easier for the Indians by bring in things like cars, central heating, asphalt shingles, snowmobiles, healthcare, hospitals, airplanes and welfare. End of Rant!
The ship took on about 400 passengers a couple of days ago in Ceylon, oops, Sri Lanka. Some of them are going all the way to Dover in England, oops, Britain. Not a bad way to escape the colder British climate I would say, sailing from India to home via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, a voyage of about six weeks!
Tonight was another Captain's Welcome Reception for those who joined the ship in Ceylon, oops, Sri Lanka.
An easy and relaxing day for all of us I believe.
Nothing newsworthy in photos today, hang in...
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