Very big boat!

This boat is anchored at Circular Quay and is very, very big; I think I counted 10 stories.  It is called Voyager of the Sea. If you click on the link you can see more about the facilities on board. Still, I would not like to go on a cruise, in fact I couldn't think of anything worse. Cooped up at sea, with people you are not sure to like and no way of getting off when you want. And the possibility of seasickness....I have rarely been on a ship without being seasick. It could be that the ships I have mostly been on have travelled on the North Sea or the Atlantic and maybe it is different in the Pacific or the Mediterranean, but still.

One of the worst trips ever was when my sister and myself visited Faroe Islands. We went from Norway to Faro Islands with a ship called Smyril which I believe still runs. We had a wonderful shrimp feast on the boardwalk in Bergen before we set off.  Maybe that was part of the problem. When the sea started getting rough both of us became very, very seasick. You know, to the point where you almost want to throw yourself overboard. The trip lasted a very long time and we stumbled onto Faroe Island soil like zombies. It took us days to get over it. We were supposed to continue a few days later to Iceland but couldn't, so we stayed on and when the ship came back on its way to Scotland we ventured on board again with great trepidation but this time it was daytime and also not quite as rough.

I have more ship stories. There is the one about my whole class going deep-sea fishing, when I went to school in Florida and I was the only one who had to stay in a cabin with a bucket nearby.

Or the one when our first born was only six weeks old and we went from Sweden where he was born to Scotland where we lived, on a ferry.  Needless to say it got bad and I had to stay in my cabin for 24 hours and nurse and change a six-week-old baby.  It was not fun..... There are more but I'll stop now, it gets boring. Just wanted to prove my point, me and sea travel do not agree!

Here is a link to some remedies for seasickness and I noticed that steering the boat was one of them but I don't think they would let me steer the Voyager of the Sea anyway.

See ya'!