Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) To cruise or not ?

Three more cruise liners achieve live culture status.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-ships-stranded-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

I guess we will soon see them littering the harbour in Southampton.
A thought: the Lines could let them to the NHS as isolation Hospitals. ..

I wonder if it is like aircraft where there aren't enough jet ways for all the planes as some are always flying.
Good idea though Peter . Most major cities are on navigable rivers.

A friend of mine is marooned off the coast of Chile (San Antonio). The remaining few weeks of the cruise have been cancelled. They are now seeking a flight home, so not a great end to a dream holiday.

Dave even so it is a bit of a first world problem. I understand the frustration as we are looking at cancelling a lot of trips.
But I have no info on how places like Africa & India will cope. I am guessing many will die. Then by comparison a messed up holiday isn't too bad.

Oh yes John, totally agree. We don't cruise for reasons already mentioned, but our friends are really big into cruising and live their lives surrounded by crowds. They will struggle to deal with self isolation, even though he had a serious bout of pneumonia, last cruise but one, which cost the insurance a huge amount of money.

I hope they come through OK.

We had all the passengers roaming around Dartmouth off the Huertingen liner today MS Fridtjof Nansen lets hope they haven't left any nice surprises around the town.

No wonder they looked a little bemused as according to their schedule they were due to be flying back home from Argentina today

We had a nice hike into the town from our village for a change from driving which we thought might be healthier.

During the course of our walk we saw a Sparrowhawk take a Pidgeon on the wing and promptly take it to ground and commence plucking it, totally unbothered by our presence we are fortunate to live in such surroundings.

Richard if I may ask which village do you live in close to Dartmouth, my Grandparents used to live in Galmpton, spent my summers there.

Of course Bruce it's Stoke Fleming just on the other side of the river and 2 miles from Dartmouth on the A379 coastal route to Kingsbridge which incidently is a wonderful scenic Morgan road.
We are probably around 5 miles from Galmpton as the crow flies, it's still a lovely village. Our three children went to Churston which as you know is adjacent, they had a car journey-foot passenger ferry and bus to school from Kingswear and return at the end of the day so they are all good travellers.
You spent your summers in a fine place.