I worked as a journalist for four decades and saw a few bad parts of the Earth, it was time to explore the nice ones, former Globe and Mail reporter Gloria Galloway writes
On the top deck of the MSC Poesia while transiting the Suez Canal as part of an around the world cruise.In January of this year, I packed two large bags of luggage, flew to France and boarded a ship. It was the start of a mostly westward sea voyage that landed me back in Marseille 118 days later.
World cruising draws an older crowd. Not many young people have the time and the money for such indulgences – though there was a handful of young families with children. I was one of the less senior folks on board the MSC Poesia, but I was continually impressed by the determination of the grey-haired passengers to make the most of the experience.
Thankfully, I was free by the time we traversed the Panama Canal and watched lush green jungle pass by on either side of the deck as we cruised the inland lakes. I marvelled at the mechanisms that allow huge ships to make it through such a tight squeeze in the locks.The pool on the MSC Poesia. After crossing the Atlantic and passing through the Panama Canal, stops included Papua New Guinea, Tokyo, Singapore, and Thailand.
I understood that, by purchasing an inside cabin on a lower-priced ship, I was not getting a gold-plated bathtub, lobster at every meal and bottomless flutes of Dom Pérignon. But life on the Poesia was, in truth, quite upscale compared with my normal existence. The food was good. The chefs did their best to match the menus with our ports of call. We did have lobster every now and then. And the service was exemplary.
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