Those who are my friends on Facebook will know that I have just returned from a very enjoyable holiday – a cruise around the Mediterranean. For the past few years we have organised our holidays through the internet but remembering the problems that people had last year with volcanic ash and strikes, we decided it would be best to go into town and book this particular holiday through an agency so that financially we would be covered in the case of some untoward incident. We actually booked it last year. My son had said that the fellows at work were talking about cruises and that he had never been on one. I hadn’t actually been on a cruise but I had travelled on an ocean liner before – three times between London and Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the days before flight travel took over the travel world. So we did our sums and decided to go for it. He still had some money that he had kept from his motorbike accident 2 years ago and thought that this would be something nice to spend it on.
The final part of the bill had to be paid by the end of March. At the end of May my son was out of a job. Under normal circumstances we would have cancelled the holiday losing the deposit but as it was already all paid for we decided to go for it and enjoy it. And that we did!
One of the surprises was the way in which the cabin crew left the clean towels in our rooms every morning – in the shape of various animals. Very creative and unexpected. I’m often surprised by the hidden talents of very ordinary folk. Each day we smiled when we returned to our cabins after breakfast to see the new artwork of our stewards – a very pleasant start to our day from people who just did the extra in order to please.
So now it’s back to reality and job hunting so we can save up for next year’s holiday.
2 comments:
Sometimes you just have to go for it don't you and worry about the consequences later? I hope your son finds a new job soon though.
Those towels are such fun. I once bought a book for our daughter on origami towels and one book I saw was origami for babies or various ways to wrap them up. Reminds me of the Native Indian approach to art as a transient thing, not something to put away in a gallery earning money but something to tell a story.
Thanks Joanna and my flight for September is already paid so no worries there either. As you say, just go for it. If we had cancelled we would have lost all that money so going seemed the only sensible thing to do. And it has softened the blow of unemployment a bit.
Origami for wrapping babies - that sounds fascinating.
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