Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mindly.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mindly.Social is an English speaking, friendly Mastodon instance created for people who want to use their brains and their hearts to make social networking more social. 🧠💖

Administered by:

Server stats:

1.2K
active users

mindly.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#Cruise

11 posts11 participants2 posts today
Continued thread
Public
Mark H

Meanwhile meanwhile, I've still got seven days of annual leave to book for the year and I'm tempted by a week's cruise in July on a ship we've cruised on before, to ports in Span and Portugal we've visited before, which isn't the way we usually do things. We like new places and experiences. However, we do know someone who's got a job working on the ship as an entertainments host and feel like surprising her on her first contract.

#Travel#Cruise
Public
Mark and Marie
A slow and short cruise overnight from Buenos Aires in 2016 brought us along the Río de la Plata to Uruguay's capital, Montevideo. Here, we began an organised excursion with a stop at Plaza Independencia, the main square. The sculpture in the centre is that of José Gervasio Artigas, a national hero considered to be the father of the nation of Uruguay. His remains are interred below the sculpture in a guarded mausoleum.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Uruguay #Montevideo #Sculpture #Cruise
It's a bright, sunny day with a mid-morning feel to it. The sky is blue with thin streamers and translucent patches of white cloud in it. We're standing on one corner of a public square in a city looking diagonally across at the centre where there is a sculpture. Around the square are buildings of various styles with a large, red-brick hotel block on the right being the tallest. Other buildings look more modern with glass and light panelling, and one building has a more colonial feel to it with a rounded tower on its corner and a tapered dome atop with a spire. The public square is paved in a pattern of light and dark stone slabs and there aren't very many people around with most of those gathered to the right in what look like two small tourist groups. The sculpture in the centre is a large marble box plinth on top of which there is a man mounted on a horse. The horse has its front right leg raised slightly as if about to start walking or to paw at the ground.
#Cruise
Public
Mark and Marie
After a lunch break in an old theatre (the best steak we've ever eaten) accompanied by a tango show on stage at eye level right next to our table (superb) we headed off for the final bit of sightseeing in Buenos Aires before returning to our ship.

This is La Boca, a district of brightly coloured houses and shops, many decorated with figurines outside and on balconies, and filled with artists and tango dancers. Lots of street art decorated every surface in the area and it's a must-see part of Argentina's capital if you're visiting for the first time.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Argentina #BuenosAires #LaBoca #Architecture #Cruise
We're on a very wide, cobbled street that curves to the left ahead of us, disappearing behind large, leafy trees to that side of the view. In front of the trees there are stands set up on which there are small paintings or prints on A4 sheets of paper. The right side of the street is bordered by buildings of differing textures shapes and colours. Indeed, the colours are applied in bold and vibrant blocks contrasting doors and window frames with the surrounds that might be smooth or boarded in wood or with corrugated metal sheeting. It's an eclectic, haphazard, chaotic, colourful arrangement that works well with its blues and yellows and greens and pinks and oranges and reds. A couple of ornate iron street lamps stand in front of a few of the buildings and there is one person on the street - a man in jeans and a white t-shirt - walking away from us. It's lightly overcast but feels warm here.
#Cruise
Public
kuovadis

For our first landing we stop at Enderby Island to admire the flora, the beautiful cliffs, and the abundant sea lions. It's a wet, windy day and I am almost blown off the boardwalk a number of times, but it's great to be off the ship and surrounded by lush vegetation.

kuovad.is/ross-sea-antarctica-

Kuo VadisA voyage to the Ross Sea, Antarctica part 3: A landing on Enderby Island — Kuo Vadis
#photography#travel#travelphotography
Public
kuovadis

The first day of our voyage was spent at sea.We were given parkas and boots, and our clothes were decontaminated. Briefings covered zodiac operations and an overview of our voyage. In the evening, I went to the bridge to look out at the sea before us, and had the good fortune to meet the officer on watch for the night.

kuovad.is/ross-sea-antarctica-

Kuo VadisA voyage to the Ross Sea, Antarctica part 2: Our first day at sea — Kuo Vadis
#photography#travel#travelphotography
Public
Mark and Marie
Our third cruise commenced in 2016, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of our first date. This was our first time heading south of the equator and we flew down to join the ship, Star Princess, in Buenos Aires. We would spend an entire day docked in Argentina's capital which meant we could go off on a full day's excursion before the cruise properly began.

This is the view from Buenos Aires on the aft of the ship. The raised structure on the right is the nightclub, accessed via a travelator, and it's where we spent every evening into the early hours.

#Cruise #Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Argentina #BuenosAires #Ship
We're on the top deck of a cruise ship, towards its aft and overlooking some of the deck below which has a hot tub to the right and a large chess board with pieces on it to the left. Three rows of loungers in a small space are behind the chess board. The aft structure of this ship has a raised section mounted on thick supports. We can see one support on the corner, almost directly ahead of us and the angled white section it supports has a row of vertical, blue-tinted windows along its edge facing us, reflecting the scenery behind us. It's a very bright and sunny day, feeing warm here, and the ship is docked at a port we can see off to the left. A large area of bright green lawn meets more industrial buildings with pipes and concrete, scaffolding-like arrangements, and a tall chimney stack painted in white and red hoops like a lighthouse. In the far distance the city sprawls with jagged peaks of skyscrapers reaching towards the patchy blue sky and puffy white clouds.
#ship
Public
Mark H

Processing photos from our recent cruise.

This is the Salmon Eye in Hardangerfjord, Norway. It's both a floating art installation and a Michelin-starred restaurant with the sort of cost for a meal you'd expect from a Michelin-starred restaurant in Norway.

A bright, clear day with a pale blue sky over and behind mountains in the distance, themselves pale with haze. The mountains are brightly lit except on the far left where they fold back away from the direct sunshine. The peaks along the ridge further back on the right are topped with snow. In front of the mountainous background there is low, sloping green land dotted with groves of trees and isolated buildings. This reaches to a flat stretch of deep blue water on which we're located some distance from land. Midway between our high viewpoint and the nearest shore there is an object on the water, appearing somewhat like a crashed flying saucer. It is a bulbous, metallic, flattened sphere, elongated a little and angled down to look like a rugby ball skipping into the water. The object's scale is hard to determine but easily a couple of dozen metres across at least.
#Travel#Photography#Cruise
Public *
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Have you ever seen pins on a cruise ship? For as long as I remember, the huge cruise ships in the Nordic area used to have really good arcades onboard. Always the latest vids and pins and naturally a full selection of gambling machines.

A lot of people go, "wait, isn't it impossible to play with the ship rocking and stuff?" and the answer is no, the ships are so big and well stabilised the sea is really not an issue, but the games were still bolted onto the deck!

But with often rowdy audience, the games had some noticeable mods done to them. The coin door had a beefy steel plate with more reinforcements inside.

They also had a credit board they used on simpler games to set the game price. I guess they just had those in every game.

The playfield usually plastic upper trim was now stainless steel and the bottom speaker had a protector on it too.

They had a keyed power switch so they could be turned off if the ship docked somewhere the operator couldn't legally do business in.

#arcade#pinball#cruise
Public
Mark H

Currently sat on the ship back at Tilbury as we wait for clearance to leave, find our cases, load them up in the car, and start the 2-hour drive back home. It's been a great cruise on an old, small ship with tons of personality and some gorgeous decor in the lounges.

#Travel#Cruise
ExploreLive feeds
About