Travel Blogging V

A day's sailing east of Keelung, the port of Taipei: Earlier I was online and noted that whereas it is Easter Sunday here, it is still Saturday in the States. The Internet's instantaneous access makes one aware of such anomalies. We once confronted that apparent paradox every time we called home from Guam, when it was "home" for a year in the mid-1980s.

The part of our cruise which consisted of many back-to-back sea days is past. Tomorrow we're in Taipei, followed by a single sea day, and another port day. From here on we're in port literally every second day until the cruise ends at Osaka. As an old hand at cruising, I prefer the sea days but a port day I don't go ashore is as good.

As a cruise to Asia this trip on the Sapphire Princess has many ethnically Asian passengers, and a surprising number of couples where only the woman is Asian. There are two such couples at our dinner table. 

Modern cruising is largely a "couples" thing, single or widowed ladies are here but not in big numbers. The couple aboard with the most days on Princess has spent over 1300 days traveling with the company, that's close to four years.