Formal Dinner

We continue towards Africa on the Indian Ocean. Tonight was formal night. Fortunately formal means no jeans and men must wear a shirt with a collar. Everyone on the ship was served a a 5 course dinnerLes mer
We continue towards Africa on the Indian Ocean. Tonight was formal night. Fortunately formal means no jeans and men must wear a shirt with a collar. Everyone on the ship was served a a 5 course dinnerLes mer
Another sea day. Wildlife watch is at 7:15 AM each morning. We gather in the Explorers Lounge on the 7th floor sometimes on the deck and sometimes inside behind the glass. We usually see only wavesLes mer
A first of several sea days on our way to Mauritius. One of today's enrichment lectures was about the Dutch East India company (the VOC) and the British East India company. Both of them were integralLes mer
Leaving Sri Lanka and headed to Cochin, India. This will be our only stop in India giving us a tiny glimpse into a vast and diverse continent. We would have had several stops in India before the routeLes mer
I learned that the founder of Modern Tropical architecture, Geoffrey Bawa, lived in Colombo so of course I wanted to see what this was all about. I visited his home in which he connected and remodeledLes mer
Sri Lanka has a history similar to other southeast Asian countries having been colonized by the Portuguese, the Dutch and then the English. Unfortunately its post colonial period has been marked byLes mer
We are now in the Bay of Bengal and it is time for part two in the story of tea. The Brits were not satisfied with correcting the trade balance. They wanted to know how to grow and process the teaLes mer
Sailing through the Andaman Sea. Since today is a sea day I will tell the story of the Chinese, the Brits, tea and opium. As Britain imported tea it rapidly became the beverage of choice evenLes mer
Phuket, population 400,000, is an island off the west coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. It used to produce tin and rubber but now its economy is based almost entirely on tourism. Sunshine andLes mer