Is it enough to have a child kicking the back of your seat, or would you prefer to ratchet up your travel experience by sitting next to someone doing yoga?
Question for Argentina expats on the long flights to and from Buenos Aires
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Thirteen hours on a plane is torture, but I bet she felt better than most of the others at touchdown, even if it does look a tad irritating.
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I am longing for the good old days when we went to the USA and Europe on passenger ships.
It was a real pleasure.
The food was excellent, the treatment as well, we had swimming pool, at 10:00 a waiter came offering consommé and crackers to the people seated in long chairs in the deck; at evening there was tea accompanied with a chamber orchestra and after dinner there was a ball where we met many brazilian girls who appreciated our argentinean gallant behaviour of that time
(I guess that not now).
In addition, we stopped at Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, The Canary Island, Madeira and Lisbon, before entering through Gibraltar into the Mediterranean.
No yoga needed at all!
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How long did it last? Lucas would love to sail to Europe, but with no internet connection, I will never agree to that!
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How long did it last? Lucas would love to sail to Europe, but with no internet connection, I will never agree to that!
Not overly romantic are we, then?
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Is it enough to have a child kicking the back of your seat, or would you prefer to ratchet up your travel experience by sitting next to someone doing yoga?
How to fix your chakras at 5,000 ft and beyond.
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So that's what her chakras are!
Always wondered.
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Here are the ships that I am referring. Not the giant cruisers as today, with 15 floors, like floating skyscrapers.
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Thirteen hours on a plane is torture, but I bet she felt better than most of the others at touchdown, even if it does look a tad irritating.
"A tad irritating????" You must be the world's most tolerant seatmate, Splinter !
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I was trying in my last post to send pictures of the old passenger ships, but I forgot how to put the photos. Sorry. I need to be millenial, and I cannot.
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I was trying in my last post to send pictures of the old passenger ships, but I forgot how to put the photos. Sorry. I need to be millenial, and I cannot.
Please, Carlos, never acquire any millennial traits.
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Now I think I learned to put pictures. Here are the Passenger ships I used to travel:
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I was trying in my last post to send pictures of the old passenger ships, but I forgot how to put the photos. Sorry. I need to be millenial, and I cannot.
Now you must show me, because I, also, have not been able to post photos! These ships that you show are magnificent!
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They look like a fairytale! I can travel back in time just looking at the picture, imagining things and times I have only read about in books!
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The main advantage of these passenger ships is that they had "human scale". If you were a passenger you can also be invited to have dinner with the captain. You were introduced to all the passengers of your class. As in the 1st class there were not enough young people, we, who ent in "cabin class" (like a second class= were allowed to stay in 1st. class).
They were exaclty the opposite of the nowadays cruisers that are floating skyscrapers and you are among 4000 passengers. It is like a Mall in a black friday.
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Now I think I learned to put pictures. Here are the Passenger ships I used to travel:
Just saw this thread.
I remember the days when British emigrants to Australia went by ship although I bet their sleeping quarters were closer to the water line than yours.
You have to remember that only a certain class of traveller could travel in style back in those days whereas now with air travel being as cheap as it is anyone can travel even in First Class if they know all the tricks.Given the choice I'd rather fly in airline economy class than the best cabin of a ship. I don't like the sea unless it's flat calm which the Atlantic rarely is apart from the doldrums.
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Those passenger ships look magnificent! I have never wanted to travel by water, but after seeing these I just might be tempted to try once, although I am super afraid of being sea sick all the time. I am sure I can use some medication, but then I am also afraid of leaving land for long stretches. Sigh. Before being born we are all underwater(sort off), but then we pop out to be afraid of water. How quickly we forget.
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My only experience on a long trip on a boat was on a Ferry going from Dubrovnik to Rijeka (Croatia) and I spent the first third enjoying the panorama, the second third trying to sleep and the third vomiting. My husbands has been speaking highly of his experiences on cruises in the Mediterranean and insist I should at least give it a try. I am not interested at all in staying in a small city with strangers pretending I enjoy doing things I usually never do, so I'll pass. Not to mention the unnecessary strain on workers who are forced to stay at sea just for 'my' enjoyment.
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