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Modak’s Espresso – Dunedin, New Zealand

This is from our last Dunedin. We had boat drill (they always put it on a great port day), and the boat drill didn’t end till 11:30, and the shuttle into town takes half an hour, and we had to be back onboard for a 3:00pm rehearsal. So it was a short day, but I […]

Milford Sound

Training and Staff Bar

This itinerary has so many sea days, I think we get about four hours in port for every three days on the ship. Bleh! My sanity is being saved by ship-friends, the internet, and BBC’s “Extras” on DVD…

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Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand

PBSD

This one goes out to all my managerial friends!

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Shoulder Angel in Tauranga

Postcards from New Zealand

1. An Irish Pub in Dunedin (sounds like Dunn-EE-din). There’s one in every port! 2. View from deck 14, docked in Bay of Islands. 3. Walking up Mt. Maunganui… I may have possibly spelled that right… or not…

Jana Singing in the Cafe

If you’re a fan of pree-ty voices and guitar, this is Jana Seale. She sings on the ship, and it’s a lucky day when the cafe isn’t too crowded with guests to sit and listen.

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Flat White

This is yet another stop on my cafe-tour of Australia/New Zealand: Enigma, in the windy city of Wellington. A lot of these ports are repeats from my first ship contract in 2008, and I’m happy to report that Enigma, Modak’s Espresso (Dunedin), eighty-eight (Mt. Maunganui) and the strawberry alarmclock (Aukland) are all still here. Our […]

Guest Sightings

Apologies for the odd proportions here; as you can imagine, I was going for quickness and discretion while I was drawing the guests…