Rare Clay Clayton Posted February 27, 2021 #476 Share Posted February 27, 2021 13 hours ago, Ragnar Danneskjold said: - Two 45 minute brisk walks a day. - 30 minutes of fetch in the yard. - 30 minutes running around the house playing keep-away. - Prepping two fresh-food meals a day for his highness. - Holding a raw-hide chew-bone while the slobber runs down over and prunes your hand. - Providing one or more body parts to be chewed on. - Bath and mani-pedie every week or so, - Allowing room on the bed for his highness’s long legs to stretch out, your comfort is secondary. - Not minding voluminous dog farts.... Hmmmm, maybe we aren’t your guys then. Most of those seem do-able but the bath and bed ones are a bridge too far. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Avery Posted February 27, 2021 #477 Share Posted February 27, 2021 16 minutes ago, Clay Clayton said: Hmmmm, maybe we aren’t your guys then. Most of those seem do-able but the bath and bed ones are a bridge too far. LOL Better the dog than Ragnar.....😱 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukefan Posted February 27, 2021 Author #478 Share Posted February 27, 2021 22 hours ago, Heidi13 said: All changed again with Viking Sun. Now she is at anchor off Hong Kong and the destination on her AIS is now listed as Hong Kong. All this reminds me of when we would negotiate with the Chinese 20+ years ago. You would get the deal all set and agreed to by both parties until you showed up for the signing and tranfer of payment. When you arrived the person you had agreement with was not there and in their place was a new person who would anounce that they had replaced the previous person because the deal negotiated by the previous person was not good enough and was unacceptable. The best way to deal with the situation was to say that the deal is unacceptable we will leave. Their strategy I believe was to try and get you to better the agreement because when you said that you were walking away, they always eventually decided the orginal deal was acceptable after all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharTrav Posted February 28, 2021 #479 Share Posted February 28, 2021 @Dukefan your post reminds me of an article I read years ago in which a person from Africa stated how even tho buying from the US may have cost more and took longe, they had absolute assurance that whatever you contracted and paid for from an American company you got. You didn't get cheated. In contrast, they hated dealing with the Chinese who invariably did not honor their contracts. For ex, if you ordered and paid for class A materials - what arrived would more than likely be inferior class products. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Wonderland Posted February 28, 2021 #480 Share Posted February 28, 2021 On 2/26/2021 at 12:50 AM, Heidi13 said: Viking Sun now steaming about 100 miles from Chinese Waters, almost as if she is holding for orders. I guess the Chinese authorities require the crew members to be quarantined for 14 days (since the departure from previous port) before Viking Sun is allowed to enter China and go to the Shekou shipyard. Perhaps she may stay at the current position at Hong Kong OPL for one more week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted February 28, 2021 #481 Share Posted February 28, 2021 5 hours ago, Cruise Wonderland said: I guess the Chinese authorities require the crew members to be quarantined for 14 days (since the departure from previous port) before Viking Sun is allowed to enter China and go to the Shekou shipyard. Perhaps she may stay at the current position at Hong Kong OPL for one more week. Good point and it makes sense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted March 10, 2021 #482 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Viking Sea has departed Trieste and is bound for Bodrum in Turkey. Not a port I have visited before, or know much about other than being more of a yacht port. Anyone been there before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkTapley Posted March 10, 2021 #483 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Did anyone see Karine’s intro to this week’s Viking.tv offerings? (Emailed on Monday.) She was aboard one of the ships, in Mamsen’s. Wonder what ship she was visiting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Avery Posted March 10, 2021 #484 Share Posted March 10, 2021 15 minutes ago, Heidi13 said: Viking Sea has departed Trieste and is bound for Bodrum in Turkey. Not a port I have visited before, or know much about other than being more of a yacht port. Anyone been there before? Nowhere near Aliaga I hope....😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted March 10, 2021 #485 Share Posted March 10, 2021 4 hours ago, Jim Avery said: Nowhere near Aliaga I hope....😳 Haha!! Now there's a rumour to get started, but fortunately with already having 5 cruise ships, I suspect they may not be accepting new tonnage for many months. However, they could be using Bodrum as a holding yard.😒 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Wonderland Posted March 11, 2021 #486 Share Posted March 11, 2021 14 hours ago, Heidi13 said: Viking Sea has departed Trieste and is bound for Bodrum in Turkey. Not a port I have visited before, or know much about other than being more of a yacht port. Anyone been there before? Haven't been there, but some ships from luxury cruise lines occasionally visit this port, e.g. Crystal, Regent, Seabourn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Wonderland Posted March 14, 2021 #487 Share Posted March 14, 2021 On 3/10/2021 at 10:46 PM, Heidi13 said: Viking Sea has departed Trieste and is bound for Bodrum in Turkey. After a quick stop at Bodrum in Turkey, Viking Sea is now heading to Limassol in Cyprus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcpvwill Posted March 15, 2021 #488 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Viking Sea appears to have come from Bodrum to Limassol. Any ideas why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted March 15, 2021 #489 Share Posted March 15, 2021 After a few months of inactivity, many of the ships are moving: Jupiter - approaching Mukran, with ETA 16th Sea - alongside Limassol, after a brief stop in Bodrum. Might be taking bunkers Star - today moved to the berth vacated by Jupiter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted March 16, 2021 #490 Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) Looks like this explains the stop in Bodrum-bringing crew aboard https://www.dailysabah.com/business/tourism/turkeys-bodrum-welcomes-1st-cruise-ship-of-season Edited March 16, 2021 by Clay Clayton 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Peregrina651 Posted March 16, 2021 #491 Share Posted March 16, 2021 3 hours ago, Clay Clayton said: Looks like this explains the stop in Bodrum-bringing crew aboard https://www.dailysabah.com/business/tourism/turkeys-bodrum-welcomes-1st-cruise-ship-of-season I was wondering if that was the reason -- or at least part of the reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted March 23, 2021 #492 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Viking Sea departed Cyprus a couple of hours ago, returning to Trieste. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Masterson Posted March 25, 2021 #493 Share Posted March 25, 2021 On 3/15/2021 at 6:48 PM, Heidi13 said: After a few months of inactivity, many of the ships are moving: Jupiter - approaching Mukran, with ETA 16th Sea - alongside Limassol, after a brief stop in Bodrum. Might be taking bunkers Star - today moved to the berth vacated by Jupiter So the Jupiter is headed to Mukran, Germany... I;m supposed to board her in July in Bergen. I'll be vaccinated. Iceland is accepting visitors who are vaccinated... Maybe these are good signs? I'm still not holding my breath. 🤷♀️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted March 25, 2021 #494 Share Posted March 25, 2021 24 minutes ago, Liz Masterson said: So the Jupiter is headed to Mukran, Germany... I;m supposed to board her in July in Bergen. I'll be vaccinated. Iceland is accepting visitors who are vaccinated... Maybe these are good signs? I'm still not holding my breath. 🤷♀️ Jupiter has been in Mukran for over a week, as she arrived March 16th. No indication get on her AIS for departure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted March 25, 2021 #495 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Andy-any update on Sun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted March 25, 2021 #496 Share Posted March 25, 2021 18 minutes ago, Clay Clayton said: Andy-any update on Sun? Clay - she is still alongside the pax treminal in Shekou and the AIS is still showing NIR or Norwegian Flag. As of last week they still have a number of Senior Officers and a VP still on board. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted March 25, 2021 #497 Share Posted March 25, 2021 43 minutes ago, Heidi13 said: Clay - she is still alongside the pax treminal in Shekou and the AIS is still showing NIR or Norwegian Flag. As of last week they still have a number of Senior Officers and a VP still on board. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friendlyfifer Posted March 28, 2021 #498 Share Posted March 28, 2021 We are boarding the Jupiter in Portsmouth on 29 May. Does anyone know how and when the crew will be boarding the ship for the three English cruises? We were on the TA last March when the Sky turned, mid Atlantic and headed back to the USA. It will be great to get back on board a Viking ship. Hopefully we will recognise a few crew members who may have transferred from the Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medeba Posted March 29, 2021 #499 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Friendlyfifer. I think you mean the Viking Venus. Sorry, I can't answer your question about the crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDHusker Posted March 30, 2021 #500 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Orion has left Trieste on it way to Rijeka, Croatia. Any idea why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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