Kit and Ric arrived in Derry late this morning, and there was a bit of a surprise waiting.
Randy Cassingham
Ireno Days 5 & 6: Winding Down
Day 5 brought a slight change of plans.
Ireno Day 4: Second Wind
After a build-up of fatigue, with some extra rest yesterday (Day 4, Monday), Kit seems to have built up a second wind. She sounds downright energized again today.
Ireno Day 3: Settling In
Kit and Ric got off to their usual early start — before breakfast — and stopped a little beyond the half-way point. The story of the journey, of course, is between those points.
Ireno Day 2: A Day of Stories
OK, so most days are really just a string of short stories. These seem to be a bit more interesting than usual.
Ireno Day 1: Getting Her Land Legs Back
Day 1 of Kit and Ric’s “Ireno” ended after 6 hours: “We walked 11 miles today and have stopped for the day,” she texted. “I’m exhausted. We’ve stopped at a sweet B&B and we’ll get dinner here too.”
Kit’s “Ireno”: Can’t Go Yet? Then Go on Walkabout
Kit has been getting cranky at the wait in Belfast, and we got the news that it would be another week before we could board Odyssey and get going on our trip. “I really want to walk,” she said.
We Are Not “Stranded”
Gee, thanks, BBC. They started it — how we’re “stranded” in Belfast.
NCL Stole My Most Important Bag
Two weeks ago in the This is True newsletter I mentioned that Norwegian Cruise Line lost my “technology bag” with my digital recorder, my iPad, my expensive keyboard that enables my fastest typing, an external monitor, cables, and a lot more.
The Troubles
Residential Cruising means full-time travel, and I knew I’d learn things and get new perspectives from travel, which is A Good Thing. That started before we even boarded our ship.
Victoria Cruises Investigated for Fraud
Formal investigations of would-be Residential Cruising company Victoria Cruises Line, aka VCL, have started, and the first enforcement action was taken on Friday (7 June 2024). In order to provide full and fair clarity, this article is necessarily long.
More on Crew Accommodations
There was significant reaction to one aspect of my recent article about the Odyssey, so I thought I’d expand on it: how the crew is being treated on the first-ever Residential Cruising ship.
Blog #2: Not Only Homeless, We Can’t Even Live In Our Car
When getting ready to move into full-time Residential Cruising, we didn’t just sell our house and Get Rid of all our stuff, making us “homeless” until we could board our ship.