Crater Palace Hotel Aden
Arwa Street Aden, Yemen
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On the ship, cruising, and have a full day agenda
We're in a tiny shop in Jordan using their internet. The ship's has not
been working so we've delayed sending anything for several days. We've
had 4 great days at sea. Yesterday we went from breakfast to bridge
lesson. Directly from there to the pool deck where they ran a carnival
of all sorts of games for an hour. Each game produced a raffle ticket
and they had a drawing at the close. We had great fun, but no prizes. I think almost the ...
The Guantlet
... two days before we arrive at Salalah, we held our first practice drill for piracy avoidance. The code that will be given to alert both the crew and passengers of an imminent pirate attack is "Code Sierra Papa". When the code is given over the ship's intercom everyone goes into action. All passengers will return to their cabins via inside passage ways. The crew members will go to specific posts that have been assigned to them. Some will start checking ...
Gulf of Aden
... in a traffic lane off the Yemen coast, heading for the Bab el Mandeb* so there are several ships in sight. We seem to be going slightly faster than a similar container ship over to starboard, so perhaps the Captain's tactic is to have that as a decoy (like the old joke, we don't need to go faster than the pirates, just faster than a slightly more convenient ship at ...
A trip to the beach
... parked the boat. We gathered up our stuff and admittedly dilly dallied around a bit too long. We leisurely walked over to our parked boat and as we approached, we realized that the guys were struggling to keep the boat from getting stuck in the sand. The waves were crashing over the side of the boat and filling up the inside with water. This boat was pretty big, not just a little motor boat, so this was definitely a problem. ...
The adventures of daily life in Yemen
... so that you don't flood the bathroom. After you have drained the water, you transfer your clothes to the spinner to wring them out. You run the spinner for three minutes and then you do the process all over again 2 more times(wash, drain, spin). You can imagine how gratifying it is to have a finished product!! ...
