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Wednesday, June 6. 2018

Travel: Biking around Sicily, etc.

Biking around southeastern Sicily. Sounds excellent.  I've been to most of those places.


Re travel, Gerard took the wrong cruise.  I posted about our most recent cruise, a sailing ship from Lisbon down to Morocco and out to a few of the Canary Islands. We love ships, especially when the stops are in interesting places. And even our sailing ship had a good gym with ocean views. And, in fact, the best lines do not try to overfeed you.



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I'm really pleased that so many people like to get on a ship for 3 or 4 days of gluttony and drinking. It keeps them away from the nice places we go. A cruise ship is the most crowded piece of real estate on earth. Thanks but no thanks.
#1 FRP on 2018-06-07 14:02 (Reply)
Re: Gerard took the wrong cruise.
One of the comments on Gerard's page referenced this article about cruise ships in Harpers, by David Foster Wallace that I enjoyed very much. It's 33 pages long but I could have read another 33, it's so entertaining.

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf
#2 LP on 2018-06-10 16:40 (Reply)

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