KnittyNorah
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- The Frozen North (of England)
LOL! Like a roof garden in the City of London, or that mound-thing being likened to a hill! Or what I have growing on my windowsill. Can you walk among the trees or camp the night there? Are there moths and spiders, beetles and snails, birds, bees and butterflies, free to flit from tree to tree and across the meadow to the flowers?There was plants, flowers, trees and real grass on the cruise ship i was on…..
as for being imprisoned, its hardly what its like, but hey, its your opinion, but you still went and paid for it.
and it must have been of interest for you to pay and get onboard, maybe it was buyers remorse.
That's a rather wide range of assumptions to make about a journey which I undertook at the behest of another person. It was an interesting experience - as new experiences are - but not one I would ever willingly repeat.
I would personally have preferred to fly; although figures are not directly comparable, those produced by Carnival Corporation and plc, which owns nine cruise lines, suggest cruising falls in similar territory to flying in terms of emissions. Many other groups, as you might imagine, consider cruising to be much more damaging, environmentally, than commercial passenger flying.
And as for being imprisoned - of course I was. I could hardly get off and walk away, could I? In the middle of the sea? It is just as much imprisonment - and for a much longer time! - as is flying, and also - to a 'milder' extent - train and coach/bus travel. However, one undertakes it more or less willingly in order to travel more or less efficiently between (a) and (b).
No-one will ever convince me that a cruise would be - or was! - a nice thing for me to go on. Just as I don't expect to convince anyone who hates heat, camels and saltbush to enjoy travelling across the Central Australian Desert astride a camel.
For me, though, it was pure delight from beginning to end. There was a gentleman and his family on the trek who chose to be 'evacuated' - we had to make a diversion to near a track and use VHF radio to call the trek organiser's back-up 4WD to pick them up - I think they felt about it, the same way I felt about being on the cruise. They were clearly most unhappy and uneasy being out in the desert - and very intimidated by the camels - the two main points of the trek.