1. 04 January 2005

    2005-01-04

    Maris Freighter Cruises, Question and Answer Guide

    Boy – traveling on freighters looks inciting… Here is a large german shipping company’s travelling faq.

    6) What Will My Fellow Passengers Be Like?
    They are often an affluent but unpretentious lot who relax on board in shorts and sandals, lie reading a book in a deck chair, hearing nothing but sea gulls and waves. Ashore, they visit places they have read about and dine quietly in the fresh-fish restaurants.
    Large groups and organized activities are not for them. Rather, the excitement of discovery is their motivation. Often they are people who can take lengthy periods of time off … such as teachers, entrepreneurial types who run their own businesses, retired people, etc.

    All I can possibly disagree with is this:

    And while the Internet is not available, email can be arranged through the Captain’s office free of charge.

    via Kjell Olsen2005-01-04

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