Another 10 days has gone by and the end is nowhere in sight. we have heard the 26th is the day the son is leaving (supposedly) but who knows about the rest of the guests. we have been going for 5 weeks now 16 hour days 7 days a week. it is pretty exhausting although the past few days they have been having lunch and dinners off board so that helps a ( Read more... )

an update ( Read more... )

So far onboard we have the owners wifeand son. And the dog. everyone takes turns walking him (his name is Vino) and from today apparently he will even eat with us in the crew mess coz he doesnt like eating his food and he has barely eaten anything the whole time he has been here. he is pretty cute and everyone was a bit unsure of him at first but ( Read more... )

We left greece on wednesday after a pretty uneventful few days. after sunday night im not szyure i needed much more excitement really. i didnt get to do any sightseeing as i was working most the time but im sure i will go back to greece one day so i can sightsee then.

We left around lunchtime on wednesday to pretty calm conditions so we still kept ( Read more... )

im not really in the mood for an update but feel i should so here goes ( Read more... )

im off out of here! woohoo found a job, it only took a couple of weeks so that is good. im flying to athens on sunday to meet the boat. it is 43m and the owner has a chocolate factory so seems to be a match made in heaven for me!! yum yum ( Read more... )

We are still looking for jobs. ive had one interview with a kiwi chief steward which went quite well. still waiting to hear back. i have never worked with a male steward before so could be quite interesting.  i have joined another 3 agencies and they have all sent my CV to boats so hopefully one of them will work out. on a good note though i do ( Read more... )

We are back in france now, arrived in antibes on friday night. we first got to Nice expecting to stay with guillains uncle but when we called them from nice they said they were moving to italy on monday and we couldnt stay with them...oops. wish we knew that earlier. it was friday night in the middle of  june and most places were booked out. so we ( Read more... )

Man stabs shoppers in Tokyo street, kills 7

The 'awful, senseless' death of a loving family man

Grieving parents to visit spot where son died

Policemen on trial over alleged prisoner assault

Four arrested over Hamilton armed robbery

Man arrested over gunpoint beating, kidnap

Retrial starts for man accused of wife's murder

I really wish i hadnt.  Why ( Read more... )

Wow i havent updated here for a while, ive hardly had access to the internet the past couple of weeks. we moved out of our apartment and onto the boat - for 2 days ( Read more... )