Posted on February 25, 2009 by John Heald
Our crew is amazing and as I have mentioned time and time again that whereas in other areas of the service industry standards are falling quicker than Andrew Dice Clay’s career did, Carnival’s service continues to shine.
However, in every barrel of apples there is one that is going to be bad and yesterday I came [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by John Heald
Yesterday in Berlin we saw the famous sights that represented the Old Eastern Germany in Check Point Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate and the remnants of the wall. This morning I visited one that is very clear in my mind thanks to the Harry Palmer cold war spy films starring Michael Caine.
In one of his movies [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by John Heald
Vulga…………….no not me ……….the car. The Vulga is the famous car made in Russia and whenever you think of movies about Russia you see these big ugly black cars bumping past the Kremlin. However, having spent the last 9 hours I saw more BMW ’s and Mercedes than Vulgas. It seems that St. Petersburg has [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2008 by John Heald
I just went through security which was manned by someone who made me take off my shoes. Now considering I have been walking since 8 am up and down the hills of Tallinn my feet smell like Gerard Deperdeaux’s refrigerator………….cheese topped with extra cheese.
So, there I was bending over trying to take off my mountain [...]
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