Let the river run...

I'm so close I can almost taste it. I have finished my pictures of the Queen Mary 2. I'm sorry to say there aren't a lot of them. The thing is, you don't need to take a purse with you as you go around the ship and my old camera wasn't conveniently pocket-sized, so I never remembered to take it with me.

That and the fact that I spent quite a lot of time in my cabin working on my other trip photos. When I wasn't eating.

However, here they are.

Queen Mary 2, 2010

On to New York! Last album!

Ahoy!

I have renamed all my Greece photos, which took a lot longer than I expected, no doubt because I have lost the ability to use alt-codes for accents (the HP has no key pad and alt-codes don't work with an external key pad. I love it when upgrading results in a loss of functionality!) and I spent some time trying to Google a solution. I have commented on and posted the ones for the ferry trip.

Only a week behind schedule.

Minoan Lines cruise 2010

I think I'll wander out into the boiling-hot air and get my still-to-be-purchased Provence cupcake before I come back and do the Athens and Delphi photos. Aντίο!

Well, this is not entirely what I expected...

So it turns out that I get motion sick.

I knew that already, of course. When I was little, we had a boat and sailed to the Thousand Islands every summer. I loved most of that journey, but the waves outside Kingston were huge and I recall spending much time violently wishing I were somewhere else while being dosed with copious amounts of Gravol.

It hasn't really come up lately. My nausea takes the form of hideous headaches. It's why I avoid roller coasters. It didn't occur to me that it would be a problem on this smoothly moving boat sorry, ship.  Guess what?

I didn't really notice it until Wednesday afternoon. It got much worse after I drank a glass of wine at the Commodore's welcome party and I wound up having to leave the dinner table halfway through the first formal night.  Fortunately, there are magic pills.  Magic, expensive pills.

I spent most of yesterday at the spa and napping. And eating. I'm feeling a bit better now, and really starting to enjoy myself. I'm finished working on the Venice photos, but the internet is so slow (and expensive!) that I'm not going to have enough time to upload them until I get on dry land. Stay tuned.