One has the chance to meet many interesting people on board.On this voyage there was a predominance of Brits. Here is a list of some whom I will remember but never meet again!
My bridge partner Sylvia who I think worked for NATO who now lives in Wales. She originally studied medicine at Barts but did not qualify and did nutrition.
A mechanical engineer from Yorkshire who arranged for tankers to be turned into refineries (in China).
A talkative partly deaf woman from Portsmouth whose husband had been an airline pilot but died about two years ago of Lewey Body dementia.
A Welshman from Cardiff who was a builder but also a deer stalker and a gun enthusiast. He kept 5 guns at home but he was also a gun dealer. (Amazing in Great Britain).
A retired General Practitioner from Deal (near Canterbury).
A South African born (Chinese ancestry) woman who was a chartered surveyor and was married to an Englishman and lived in Devon. He died a year ago of vascular dementia. (There seemed to be a lot of widows on board).
A retired US air traffic controller. I learned about the levels of air traffic control from ground, to approach, to high level routing.
A woman who sang in the London Philharmonic Choir.
A woman GP (originally from Germany) who lives in Bunderburg, Queensland with her partner who wanted to know about Whitstable where they had plans to meet a relative.
A director of NBC television programs.
A retired US military and foreign service person and his wife who lives in Italy but still had a house in Missouri. His hobby was target shooting and he told me he had 10-15 guns in his house.
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