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Very detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world: Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena, as well as S. Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, and Indonesia. Very informative, full of tips, history, what it was like to visit and stay there, indexed by country. Visit my webpage for this and other downloadable travelogues: http://www.tcp.com/~lgreenf
These are fascinating islands. Tristan has only 238 people, all with same 7 last names.
Remotest Islands in World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S Africa Malaysia, More
Larry2006-05-27 03:40:04
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arrangemet we were able to sit together and enjoy our dinner, but the policy
is sorely out-dated and needs to be changed. I understand the need for
having two sittings at dinner (the galley can't hold everyone at once, and
for breakfast and lunch many people choose the sun deck instead), but I
don't think it would bring doom to the line if people were allowed to choose
where and when they can eat their dinner. Making matters worse, the
assigned seating chart only put a few people at each table -- most with only
2-4 people (at my original table, there was only myself and the loud, drunk
Dutch writer... that's it). It almost seemed as if they were trying to
separate people instead of letting everyone enjoy each other's company and
conversation. Though an opportunity is given to switch your table for the
return sailing, half the trip is over by this time, and the seating policy
should just be completely abolished.
The second item that bothered me (and others, as I later found out) was
the lack of any real non-smoking area on the RMS. I am quite aware that
being from California (with some of the world's strictist policies against
smoking indoors), my being used to rooms without cigarette smoke isn't
something the rest of the world is used to -- but it was still annoying that
the only place on the entire ship where you could go to escape cigarette
smoke was the galley downstairs. That's it. Every other place is fair game
for smokers, from the cabins to the decks to the indoor lounges (as
mentioned earlier, there is one section of the main lounge set aside for
non-smoking, but as it's all just one large room, the smoke drifts right
into the non-smoking section). At the end of the trip when we were filling
out survey cards about the RMS, I was surprised to hear how much the smoke
bothered some of
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
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Malaysia Gallery
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Saint Helena Gallery
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Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
