Entries from January 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Paradise Found

Thirty something years ago a young man named Richard Branson formed a company called Virgin. He started with a record label which produced some of the most famous bands of the seventies and of course today we have Virgin Airways (yes, they do go all the way) Virgin Money, Virgin Mobile etc. This has made [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Grand Turk……pure and simple

Once upon a time on an Island far far away there lived a few hundred people who spent their days fishing, growing fruit spending their evenings drinking Tequila and enjoying the music of the Mariachi band………..El Locos. There were white sandy beaches where people would frolic naked in the deep blue water and occasionally, just [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

3 out of 3 carpet cleaners say it’s better than Vegas

I have never been to Las Vegas. It’s not that I never wanted to go, it’s just that I never seemed to have a reason to go there. The reason however that I mention this is that tonight I heard a guest say to his friends………………”This is better than Vegas.”
Now, you would have expected him [...]

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Schools Out

My school days were a mixture of hard work, strict discipline accompanied by a forced sports program and home work each and every night. Our uniform was a bizarre mixture of purple and black with the trousers made from a torturous material called “serge.” This material had you feeling like a thousand tiny insects were [...]

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

The State of the Union…..Is the fun has begun

You would have thought it was a day at sea…………….whereas for the last three years I have been cocooned in the bosom of Europe where on embarkation day the ship is like a library here on the new Carnival Imagination it was fun all the way. The pools were busy, people were sunbathing and some [...]

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