I just stumbled upon this thread. My first cruise was on the Britanis in 1985. Just me and two of my college roommates.
I guess you could say we stuck out in the crowd. After meeting the captain, we were invited to sit at the captain's table at dinner later in the week.
Since we were poor college seniors, we had an inside cabin where the beds pulled down from the wall. I think the lower berth slept two and the upper berth slept one.
A day or two into the cruise we were told we had to change cabins. That was fine with us because there was a single guy in the cabin next to us, and he was a complete jerk, making lots of noise all hours of the night. Little did we know we were being upgraded to an outside cabin with three separate berths and an actual porthole!
Boy, do I wish I could go back in time and "visit" that cruise again. We, too, went to San Blas. A photo I shot there won 1st place in the New Jersey State Fair that fall. I still have two of the hand crafted cut work pieces of art I bought while we were there.
While in San Blas, we were taken to a "deserted island." What a laugh! It was an unpopulated island just a stone's throw from San Blas. But, I can honestly say I was once on a deserted island.
I also remember all the armed soldiers in Cartegena, Colombia. We were told repeatedly that they were there for our safety. I also remember the absolutely breathtaking emeralds in the jewelry stores in Colombia. It was said that Colombia kept the best emeralds and exported stones of lesser quality.
Our walk in a duty free zone in Panama was memorable, too. Apparently we walked a little too deep into the duty free zone, and suddenly we realized we were all alone. You bet we turned around and made fast tracks back to the populated area of the zone!
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I just stumbled upon this thread. My first cruise was on the Britanis in 1985. Just me and two of my college roommates.
I guess you could say we stuck out in the crowd. After meeting the captain, we were invited to sit at the captain's table at dinner later in the week.
Since we were poor college seniors, we had an inside cabin where the beds pulled down from the wall. I think the lower berth slept two and the upper berth slept one.
A day or two into the cruise we were told we had to change cabins. That was fine with us because there was a single guy in the cabin next to us, and he was a complete jerk, making lots of noise all hours of the night. Little did we know we were being upgraded to an outside cabin with three separate berths and an actual porthole!
Boy, do I wish I could go back in time and "visit" that cruise again. We, too, went to San Blas. A photo I shot there won 1st place in the New Jersey State Fair that fall. I still have two of the hand crafted cut work pieces of art I bought while we were there.
While in San Blas, we were taken to a "deserted island." What a laugh! It was an unpopulated island just a stone's throw from San Blas. But, I can honestly say I was once on a deserted island.
I also remember all the armed soldiers in Cartegena, Colombia. We were told repeatedly that they were there for our safety. I also remember the absolutely breathtaking emeralds in the jewelry stores in Colombia. It was said that Colombia kept the best emeralds and exported stones of lesser quality.
Our walk in a duty free zone in Panama was memorable, too. Apparently we walked a little too deep into the duty free zone, and suddenly we realized we were all alone. You bet we turned around and made fast tracks back to the populated area of the zone!
What great memories!