Beware of Greeks bearing gifts……or …..Beware of Greeks bearing bugger all information. From: Stelios _________ Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:18 PM To: SPLENDOR SHORE EXCURSION MANAGER Cc: ‘Christos _________ Subject: important news!! Dear All This is to advise that the center...

Let me set the scene for part one of today’s blog thingy with a true story……….and yep…………it’s a true story. Heidi and I were in the car a few years ago. We were sitting behind a car at a stop light and I noticed that it had a bumper sticker that read...

Last cruise our 124 Russian guests were brilliant. They danced, they laughed and they had a wonderful time and we all enjoyed having them onboard. This week we only have 23 and 22 seem very nice as well……….one though………..well………have a read. Guest...

And so it is with a heavy heart and a heavy stomach thanks to the huge Chicken Curry I had for dinner last night that I start my last cruise on the Carnival Splendor and I will reminisce about this later. However, there is still much work to be done and let’s start by telling you [...]

Good Morning from Livorno and, after an unexpected day at sea yesterday, the guests seemed very happy to touch land and off they went touring beautiful Tuscany, gorgeous Florence and historic Pisa and its tower. As I said yesterday, even though we missed a port most guests were understanding with the...

On average during a 12-day cruise, I receive 150 letters. Most are dedications. Some are comments. A few are complaints and then there ones that fall into the category of “what the hell are you telling me this for”? Here is such a letter. I read this letter at the Morning Show a few days ago and [.....

Bugger! Well, she is correct. I did say they were expecting rain, both verbally and in the Carnival Capers, because that’s what www.weather.com told me. Good morning by the way from the straits of Messina where as I write it is ……guess what………….raining. This...

Giving me a gun is the same as handing a man from Paris a bar of soap. We both have no idea how what it’s for, what it does and how we are supposed to use it. So, when the hotel’s instructor handed me the shotgun, I, like Jean Claude holding a bar of soap, had [...]

Summer has come to England and we know this because we have had three straight days of sunshine and temperatures in the eighties. When summer arrives the country goes mad. Men can be seen wandering the streets in their shorts with white milk bottle legs while the good news is that the ladies are also...

According to a newspaper report the game thingy I attempted to play this afternoon is the cause of all the worlds’ problems. The game is called Grand Theft Auto 5 and according to a report in the Daily Mail it is the sole reason for the all the crime on our streets today. This game [...]