Two Gun Bob
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12 cruises completed and more to come.. Doing the half world when I retire in a couple of years then we'll travel back from Oz slowly
Tried Cunard this summer but there were too many stuck up fuckers on there.... Princess was our first cruise but my favourite so far by far was Celebrity but not cheap..
Fancy trying Seabourn but can't justify the cost.. I could have a shiny new BMW bike for what it would cost for the two of us
The best part about cruises for me is that there is no duty driver as you can walk everywhere on board
Off to Orlando in a few weeks where I'll be the duty driver for two weeks... Love it there but there's less drinking... I end up having a few Grey Gooses as nightcaps back at the apartment
I digress my good man,from a personal point of view our ship was made up with good gradely folk from all walks of life.
Cruising is no longer for the rich and famous but now appealing to the mass market.
On Queen Victoria we were assigned open dining which we simply adored.
A different table every evening with new people to talk to and all to a man had facinatinating tales to recant.
Money never came in to conversation which was just as well because we havn't got none.
On one table for twelve some ordered house wine whilst some ordered gin and tonic whilst some ordered fine wines from our sommelier costing upwards of 100 dollars a bottle. Not one person on any of our tables was condecending towards us and by the end of our evening meal we were pals for life.
One couple even cried and said your not leaving are you Taxi ! (open to interpretation)
We had two chums who stuck to us like glue on the "boat" and were in the 70's age bracket.
We took them ashore with us in Ashdod and Haifa and had a brilliant time in their fine company.
I guess in all walks of life you get "uppety tw**s" but that is just the nature of the beast is it not.
And besides the Cunard line operated a two tier class system where the elite ate and drunk of the vine in their own world called the Queens grill.
So the upper echelons of high society mixed it up away from steerage.
However one day we mixed it up with them because we remained in the lift whilst an imbibed chap swiped his card that took you to a secret Harry Potter-esque world of the landed gentry.Access to this floor only by lift card.
We lasted a good forty minutes before my Marks and Spencer dinner jacket and odd socks gave us both away..pah.
It deffo wasnt my Lancastrian accent as all I ever said in their company was yah yah yah and snorted politely along with the rest ?
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