Several ports since last post, only a couple of new ones. Went to Cannes the day after the festival, though that may well have been before I last wrote (I don't re-read, and I don't plan to until the journey is done) and that was... a walk.
Went to Maljorca. St. Tropez. Barcelona again, Livorno again (still no trip to Pisa for various reasons), Sorrento again, and so on. Yesterday we docked in Monte Carlo (again) for our first overnight of since we've been on and there was in fact one screen in one theatre showing English language films and so...
FINALLY...
I saw Star Wars Episode III. Very pleased. It had French subtitles, which was often funny and a little distracting, but ... I think M. Lucas wrote himself out of a hole with this one. I have many thoughts I'd love to expand on to those of you who've written since you've seen it, so write again, I'll answer this time. ;)
Several of us had made plans to see it in Monte Carlo when we discovered it was going to be there. Sometime late in the night on the night before, something went terribly wrong with the power distribution on the ship. We apparently drifted for about an hour an a half and were doing about 9 knots at best for several hours. It looked like we weren't going to arive until about 10:30pm; meaning we'd miss the film. AGAIN. I was not happy. Luckily, our engineers fixed the problem in several hours and got the engines going again... and the air conditioning. Living below decks without AC is NOT fun, I've discovered.
Bought a suit in Civitavecchia (port of Rome) a few days ago; we were going to take the train into Rome but the scheduling seemed a hassle and we didn't want to be stressed. So I bought a suit, and a pizza, and a monkey butler named "Sushi" who ... okay, I didn't get a monkey butler. That's my greatest regret.
I tried to send pictures yesterday, but the files were too big and our internet connection is too unreliable. I'll shirnk them or send them from a cafe shoreside.
Coming up: A sea day...
Malaga, again...
Lisbon... (NOT pronounced "liz-bee-ahn", I'm told by a native)
More later. Hopefully I'll remember to tell you about our guest entertainers Kenny and Byron.
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