Our Jewel T/A - Blarney Stones, Sour Whale Blubber; did I Mention Irish Whiskey?

[FreewayFortune]

I loved your reiew too. Being a fellow Canadian I enjoyed your description of where BC is.

[gkm]

Love your review. Where are you sailing next?

 

Garry

[Janice M]

Glad you enjoyed the report! Actually, the sea days can be as relaxing or as active as you want - there is so much do to the ship - lectures, dance lessons, sports, socialising, wine tastings, etc. Or you can just lay around the pool and read a good book.

 

Lots of people kiss the Blarney stone and most live to tell about it. Don't let me scare you off.:D

 

livylotte: loved the "wind" jammer reference. Can I use that sometime?;)

 

batoryfirst: Thanks for your comments - no book. We have put off driving down to Panama City Beach, but that was before I knew about the beer hall!

 

hypo: I saw that after it was to late to edit.:eek: This is similar to another review I wrote and in describing the public rooms I left out the "L". If any of the hosts read this I sure would appreciate it if you could give me a space!:D

 

Thanks for the memories. We were on this TA with you. Was'nt Joff our cruise director the greatest?

Jan

[SailorJack]

The review was so good I thought I was actually on this cruise with you.:) Oh wait, I was.:D Great to sail with you and Sailor Jill, Jack.

 

Good line...I use the "Oh, Wait" line myself:D

 

Janice M....I hope you enjoyed the cruise as much as SailorJill and I did. We are considering doing it again next year with the two stops in Iceland.

[gkm]

Sailor Jack, I hope you will join us. We already have a very active and great group going! And we're all reading your cruise review. http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=947857

 

Garry

[SailorJack]

Sailor Jack, I hope you will join us. We already have a very active and great group going! And we're all reading your cruise review. http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=947857

 

Garry

 

Thanks for the invite...if we sign up for this cruise we will definitely join your group!

Edited September 17, 2009 by SailorJack

[retiring soon]

Thanks Sailor Jack for another hilarious account of your cruise.:D Looking forward to hearing your next one on your 1st HAL cruise.

BTW we just came back from a road trip to BC, such a beautiful place.

~Jo~ :)

[Darkwolfe]

Cracked me up completely. Great review!

[IWORK2CRUISE]

Thanks to SailorJack for another truly entertaining tale!

I wish I had the gift for writing such reviews.

[windjamming]

What a great review SailorJack. You don't need to kiss the Blarney Stone to have the gift of eloquence!

[MAZANDSTEVE]

Excellent review and very funny!!! :D

[SailorJack]

Wonderful wonderful review

I am crying with laughter :D

How long do we have to wait until your next cruise?

 

Thanks for your kind words. We just finalized our next cruise yesterday and as you can tell from my new countdown clock, we leave on HAL's Noordam on November 1. I don't know if there will be enough material on a 10 day cruise to warrant a "review", but we are looking forward to some warm Caribbean sun in November.

Edited September 18, 2009 by SailorJack

[dsaurus]

Thank you for this. Reading this was a great way to start my day. Can't wait for the next one!

[KuffMUp]

[xznwfd]

I am not making this up - your review was the highlight of my week! Thanks so much for the wonderful laughs (although I personally would rate Keith Richards above Giant's Causeway as top ancient wonder of the UK. But that's just me.)

 

 

Cathy

[SailorJack]

Thanks Sailor Jack for another hilarious account of your cruise.:D Looking forward to hearing your next one on your 1st HAL cruise.

BTW we just came back from a road trip to BC, such a beautiful place.

~Jo~ :)

 

Thanks for your kind words. I hope you were able to make it over to the Island as well. Victoria and Butchart Gardens are not to miss sites.

 

Windjamming: You are to generous, thank you.

[petesweet]

Local lore has it that the island was named “Iceland” to scare off ancient immigrants. The idea being that when Sven and Gjertrud, whoresided well above the Arctic Circle, decided to retire to a warmer clime, they would look at the map and decide that “Greenland” sounded so much more preferable than “Iceland”.

 

I'm not sure you are allowed to discuss "whoresiding" on these boards, SailorJack!:D

Other than that, I'm loving your review so far.

Kathy

[coka]

Read on NCL board you just returned. What a treat to read another SailorJack review! You cracked me up so hard I had coffee coming out my nose. I will have to remind myself to not be drinking anything when I read your future HAL report. I can only imagine...

 

Thanks again SailorJack!

 

coka

Edited September 19, 2009 by coka

[SailorJack]

I'm not sure you are allowed to discuss "whoresiding" on these boards, SailorJack!:D

 

Other than that, I'm loving your review so far.

 

Kathy

 

If I had deliberately set out to get an "R" rating I could not have come up with this!:eek: I keep hoping a host will edit this for me, but so far no help:cool:

 

Coka: HAL is only a 10 day cruise so I don't know if I will get enough material for a review for that cruise...we'll see:)

[crew mom]

Thank you SailorJack for yet another great review! You stated my weekend off with a great laugh! :D

[thecatsmeow]

Read on NCL board you just returned. What a treat to read another SailorJack review! You cracked me up so hard I had coffee coming out my nose. I will have to remind myself to not be drinking anything when I read your future HAL report. I can only imagine...

 

Thanks again SailorJack!

 

coka

Coka I also had the coffee coming out the nose. :)

Thanks for another great review SailorJack.

 

Joyce

[7leagueboots]

Young men often do extraordinarily stupid things when they want to impress a young woman and you may be somewhat surprised to know that I occasionally fell into that category…and Cherbourg, unfortunately, reminds me of one of those times. I was dating SailorJill (well, she wasn’t actually SailorJill at the time) and wanted to impress her with my continental sophistication, so I took her to see a romantic movie that is often called the most beautiful movie ever made - entitled Umbrellas of Cherbourg starring Catherine Deneuve.

Ok, now you win...I have to rent the movie.

You said your next cruise is on Holland America. Any more RCI cruises planned?

[SailorJack]

Young men often do extraordinarily stupid things when they want to impress a young woman and you may be somewhat surprised to know that I occasionally fell into that category…and Cherbourg, unfortunately, reminds me of one of those times. I was dating SailorJill (well, she wasn’t actually SailorJill at the time) and wanted to impress her with my continental sophistication, so I took her to see a romantic movie that is often called the most beautiful movie ever made - entitled Umbrellas of Cherbourg starring Catherine Deneuve.

 

Ok, now you win...I have to rent the movie.

 

You said your next cruise is on Holland America. Any more RCI cruises planned?

 

Your line about renting the movie reminded me of a song by Chris De Burg -"Don't Pay the Ferryman":

 

On the water. And then the ferryman said,

"There is trouble ahead,

So you must pay me now," - "Don't do it!"

"You must pay me now," - "Don't do it!":D:D

No RCI tours booked yet, but we are considering doing a repeat of the Jewel t/a next year and are also looking at a cruise on the Explorer of teh Seas in January...but nothing definite yet.

 

 

[weary traveler]

I'm glad you didnt give us the "skinny" on Bill and Rita or Fred and Joan.. (two marvelous couples as you probably found out)

but i am curious your references to being Scottish and your affinity to the work out area aboard ship... have you ever given thot to renaming yourself..... "Sailor Jock"???????????

[SCdocs]

We thoroughly enjoyed this review. You don't need the Blarney Stone. We are on the Jewel TA September 2010 and are wondering...are there opportunities to pick up local tours in Cobn without booking through the ship. Thanks.