09.03.2020 India's Golden Triangle is the regular tourist circuit which connects Delhi, Agra and Jaipur and is so called because of the triangular shape formed by the locations of New…
14.10.2018 Working the "exotic" cruises - that is what the company calls any river cruise outside of Europe - is somewhat like vacation. Usually I have at least 140 guests…
16.10.2018 I slept early every night here on board – by 22:00 latest I was out! There is no TV in the room and it is dark outside. The windows…
19.10.18 Like always I got up very early to enjoy the view and do some "paper work". Breakfast as usual and then we took our country boat across to Chandannagar…
20.10.2018 Same as every day I got up by 05:30, opened the window and did some "work". Do not get me wrong, normally when working on a ship, I have…
22.10.18 My every-morning-ritual got interrupted this morning .... Well, maybe not really, though. Every 6 or 12 hrs or so the generator get changed - one goes off and the…
23.10.2018 This morning was an early start for everybody. With sunrise the Captain lifted the anchor at 05:30 - this is heard pretty much everywhere on the ship, which is…
I promised to continue the Tales from the French Rivers …. The more the season is progressing, the more meditation I need! Therefore those tales are also a vent for…
My Mom keeps telling this story about me. She says when I was little and somebody asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I would answer…
The New Year 2018 started like the old year ended... working on a river cruise ship. This time it was a relatively short cruise from Düsseldorf to Antwerp then Rotterdam,…