We chatted with Made (Ma-day), the dining room
superintendent, this morning about the attacks in Paris. He always goes to the
temple with his mother before he leaves home. She gives him a blessing that he
will be safe while he travels around the world.
There are many nationalities among the crew and passengers
on the ship. Two of our Lido waiters are from Sumatra, Indonesia and speak the
same dialect. They met for the first time when they were training for their
jobs on Holland America. They can communicate in their particular dialect and
no one else can understand them.
We hoped to meet some nice people at dinner last night and
we did. We talked the whole time and tried to find some common ground but
didn’t really hit it off with anyone. One of the men told an interesting story
about traveling to Vietnam and meeting former Viet Cong combatants.
On prior airplane trips, we visited Europe; specifically
England, France, Belgium, and Germany. On previous cruises, we visited Europe
again; specifically Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Denmark. That’s our
second continent as we were born in North America. We visited Asia;
specifically Japan. That is our third continent. We visited our fourth
continent; South America, specifically Ecuador and Peru. Today, we visited
Africa, our fifth continent; specifically Morocco. I am not sure that we want
to visit Antarctica so I guess that we have to be satisfied with five
continents. We would like to see
Australia.
We didn’t have a trip planned today in Tangier so we left the
ship and went out to visit the booths on the pier. We didn’t buy anything. We
took some pictures and went back in.
