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First Mate's Log
ImpyAtSea:
Hi all,
We're now in Corsica, docked at Porto Vecchio. This is the closest we'll be to Luigival... he sent me his phone number but I didn't get a chance to call while in town (sorry, Luigi).
I forgot to mention the "To Catch a Thief" drive yesterday. It went fine for the first half... following Luigi's directions, I wandered through Cap Ferrat, a penisula with homes... er... mansions, manors and estates of the mega-rich. I lovely, hilly and heavily wooded area with a type of tree I've never seen before... I must find out what those were.
Then up the Corniche Moyenne to Eze, a medieval town at the crown of a large hill, and on to La Turbie for lunch. Then it was time to look for the Grande Corniche; the highest road to wind my way back to Nice, and it was here that my good friends Cary and Grace had a bite to eat while looking over the Bay of Nice.
However, I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere... because all of a sudden I was being funneled onto the tollroad expressway (A8) with no way to get out. Paid the toll.... and the next exit was for Nice!
So I missed on the journey back... but it may have been all for the better, because my back was getting really tired after 3 hours on the road.
Back to life on the ship: Miss Coco Peru, the drag queen from the movies Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, did her show last night. She was a hoot: stand-up comedy in the form of a monologue about her life with songs interspersed relating to her life. I approached him today at lunch ('him' when he's not in drag) and told him about seeing Trick for the first time just before getting the info that he would be on the cruise with us. He was very gracious and I think sincerely flattered by my story.
Another I forgot to mention yesterday.... In every cabin they have a flat-screen TV that you can play DVDs on, but they also have 4 movies playing throughout the day on the closed-circuit TV system. The movies change daily, but the day we arrived, Brokeback Mountain was playing continuously for 24 hours.... Today, Trick is one of the choices, I'm sure in honor of Coco... and TransAmerica is another. I really want to see that one, but I'm not sure I want to sit in my cabin that long!
One last story for today: I went shopping in Porto Vecchio today, and I was in a shop with stone and wooden carvings. In my halting French, I said I was looking for any animal or object related in some way to Brokeback Mountain. This really cute young guy (but all young French men are really cute to my eyes and they throw my gaydar compeltely off... every one of them seems gay to me) immediately said -- in perfect French of course -- Oh! you must be with that tall ship with the sails! In other words, the whole town knew all about the gay cruise. Pretty amazing, if you ask me. How did they know?
Tonight Andrew Victoria is doing the show, and there's a midnight skinny-dipping party at one of the pools. But no, I won't be there. I'm exhausted by that time, and the late night partying by the young hunk crowd isn't for me...
Tomorrow is a day at sea, so I'll log on again Thursday, most likely.
Best, Impy
starboardlight:
wowie! sounds like you're having a blast. I'm really glad that you decided to break out of your shell and do the trip. One of these days, I'll want to do a cruise like that. keep the details coming.
Ellemeno:
I agree, keep the details coming, Bill! Thanksfor the vicarious adventure from one who is staying home (mostly) this summer. Clarissa
Phillip Dampier:
Bill reports that a shipboard computer issue has caused problems for him in accessing the thread to further update people. He'll fill in the blanks sometime this week when he returns.
Impish:
OK, all... I'm back. Still full of jet lag and my brain is working very slowly... I seem to sit and watch thoughts go by -- oh! there goes one now! :P
The Internet system on the boat was run my Microsoft and was just terrible. They charge by the minute and then make you wait for minutes at a time for each page to load. Then when I tried to get into this thread, the browser would freeze altogether. After two days of trying multiple times on Thursday and Friday, I was pissed off, frustrated and depressed after each attempt... so I finally gave up.
I plan to catch up on this thread little by little, perhaps a post for each day of the trip that I wasn't able to post about before.
To sum up the posts that will follow, the trip was fabulous in so many ways it defies description. I learned things about myself also, that I'll try to explain below.
My last post was on Tuesday last, so this afternoon, I'll post about Wednesday, our day at sea. Right now, I have to find someone to fix my dryer: came home to find it broken and me with nothing to clean to wear! :P
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