There’s a big blanket of “awesome” that covers this gig, as I’ve mentioned before. It’s so big and thick that sometimes you forget about it.
But then the CRUISE SHIP that you LIVE on shows up in AFRICA for the day, and it sort of…
So, you ask, what is a typical night like for a cruise ship musician?
Last night one of the casino girls, sloppy and silly from being clearly over-served at the Officers Bar (OB), showed up in the Petty Officers Mess (PO) at 6am stark naked…
We floated down the coast of Portugal during the night and ended up anchored outside of Spanish Morocco this morning. There wasn’t any shore leave for the crew today, but that’s alright, because Mom and Dad went ashore when they were here last week and…
Continue Reading →My parents have been cruising around the Mediterranean with me this time, and to my surprise the weather here in the Med has become decidedly more autumnal now that they’ve come. It actually rains around here, imagine that. And the weather has cooled down to…
Continue Reading →Monte Carlo rocks. Beautiful city right on the side of a huge mountain – the whole city is beautifully landscaped and pristine. It better be with all the Lamberginis and million dollar boats laying around.
I woke up late today, convinced that nothing good would…
Most cities in the world make you feel small and feeble, like an ant running through blades of grass. The buildings tower over you and block your view entirely. You’re never sure where you are or where you came from, the streets and buildings create…
Continue Reading →After having seen the reports from the Serbian/Croatian border during the mid-1990s, and having seen the awful ethnic cleansing that happened there, I expected Dubrovnik, Croatia to be about as shabby as Athens, if not worse.
But I was absolutely wrong. Dubrovnik is absolutely gorgeous,…
