petrea_mitchell: (Default)
[personal profile] petrea_mitchell
Take a Cruise Day: Have you ever been on a cruise? If not, would you want to? Cruise ships cause major environmental damage: a large cruise ship can have a carbon footprint greater than 12,000 cars, while passengers on an Antarctic cruise can produce as much CO2 emissions on a seven-day voyage as the average European in an entire year. The industry is a major producer of waste, with the total amount of rubbish produced by a large cruise ship exceeding a ton per day. And let us not forget that they are also essentially floating germ/virus labs (even before Covid). So do you still want to take a cruise?

Whoa, hey, slow down there, you had me at "Have you ever been on a cruise?". I have not, because I'm the sort of person who wants to do stuff on vacation. I have never grasped the point of paying thousands of dollars to spend most of one's vacation just doing nothing in the middle of the ocean.

Date: 2023-02-04 04:47 pm (UTC)
delosharriman: a bearded, serious-looking man in a khaki turtleneck & hat : Captain Tatsumi from "Aim for the Top! Gunbuster" (Default)
From: [personal profile] delosharriman
I went on a Mediterranean cruise with my grandmother, immediately after the Reno Worldcon. We visited a different city on the Aegean coast of Turkey or the Greek islands every day. We were up every morning about 5 AM to do the shore excursions, and then back about 3 or 4 PM, upon which I collapsed into bed and stayed there until dinner about 7. She (then pushing 90 years old) was leaving me in the dust the whole time. One nice thing, it was a modest-sized ship, not one of these floating city blocks (or, perhaps slightly more in your line of interest, Disney theme parks).

I'm thinking about taking a cruise ship this year, but not a cruise as such. "Repositioning" provides opportunities for intercontinental travel without going by air, which is something I want to explore.

Profile

petrea_mitchell: (Default)
petrea_mitchell

July 2025

S M T W T F S
  1 234 5
678 9101112
131415 16171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 18th, 2025 03:13 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios