it's everything I imagine you would report. The exaltation of middle-class self-satisfaction? and yet it´s worth it for the sands and the clear wters and the clouds and vegetations and what not! :-)
locally sourced fruit and seafood is really a struggle with the cruise companies. It took us more than five years in the galapagos to build a formal relationship between the cruise companies and local suppliers, and since crisis hit they returned to bring things from cheapest (on the price tag only) inland supermarkets because it was actually social washing -for the largest. THe smaller, (16 to 20 people on board) classier cruises still maintain the local supply chain, thankfully.
It was a bit easier in Cartagena but then, due to the larger amounts of food neeeded large companies took over the local supply and more or less kicked off the local producers we had painfully managed to get inot business with the companies...
What a catch-22 about the supply chains for cruise ships!
The exaltation of middle-class self-satisfaction?
Someone asked me, "Whose idea of a great vacation is being waited on?" And it would have been great for my Little Old Lady. She worked hard all her life raising four kids and scrubbing hallways to earn money, and retired on the edge of poverty. The modest luxury, untaxing activities, and restaurant meals would have been a huge treat for her. She would have enjoyed it all without reservation.
Your report doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Those large cruise ships have always struck me as floating shopping malls - and while I don't mind visiting the mall for a few hours every now and then, there's just no way I'd want to spend my entire vacation in one. I just don't get the appeal - but then, I like active vacations. Maybe if I enjoyed just lounging about doing nothing, I'd fine a mainstream cruise more appealing.
But I did enjoy that Alaska small-ship cruise I took my parents on back in 2006. The whole dynamic's different when there are only 140 people on the boat, and no scheduled entertainment. I think you'd enjoy a small-ship cruise.
I do admit I love lounging and doing nothing - but on my own terms, and with the freedom to bugger off somewhere completely different at a moments' notice should I become terminally bored. Plus I get seasick. So... cruises? Not for me, I think.
I get seasick on small boats, but I didn't on the cruise - but others were prostated with seasickness. And yeah, I was ready to gnaw off my own arm to get off the boat at final disembarkation.
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locally sourced fruit and seafood is really a struggle with the cruise companies. It took us more than five years in the galapagos to build a formal relationship between the cruise companies and local suppliers, and since crisis hit they returned to bring things from cheapest (on the price tag only) inland supermarkets because it was actually social washing -for the largest. THe smaller, (16 to 20 people on board) classier cruises still maintain the local supply chain, thankfully.
It was a bit easier in Cartagena but then, due to the larger amounts of food neeeded large companies took over the local supply and more or less kicked off the local producers we had painfully managed to get inot business with the companies...
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The exaltation of middle-class self-satisfaction?
Someone asked me, "Whose idea of a great vacation is being waited on?" And it would have been great for my Little Old Lady. She worked hard all her life raising four kids and scrubbing hallways to earn money, and retired on the edge of poverty. The modest luxury, untaxing activities, and restaurant meals would have been a huge treat for her. She would have enjoyed it all without reservation.
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*earworm*
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(It's an interesting read as well as interesting scholarship!)
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But I did enjoy that Alaska small-ship cruise I took my parents on back in 2006. The whole dynamic's different when there are only 140 people on the boat, and no scheduled entertainment. I think you'd enjoy a small-ship cruise.
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