WEEK #16 – 2019 April 18, 2019
Dear Readers, It is Thursday again and already 18th April 2019. This week, I’ve been planning my holiday for this summer. I’ve got a deal with my wife that allows me to take a long break every two years and it needs to be well planned because we have three small children that also need attention in particular during the summer holidays. This year is the second year in the cycle and so I opted to book myself as a passenger on a container vessel, together with my seventeen-year-old daughter who is keen to join and whom will then be traveling along with her ‘old man’ for the third time. We’ve booked passage with the CMA CGM travel agency on board the containership, mv CMA CGM Chopin, sailing from Singapore on June 29th We’ll be calling at Port Kelang, Fremantle and Sydney before disembarking in Melbourne about three weeks later. This year also marks the sixtieth year since my father, a mate onboard a Danish tanker (Dansborg), arrived in Fremantle in 1959. Some questions I usually get when telling people about container ship holidays I have planned include, “But are you not bored onboard? How is the food? Can you walk around everywhere on the ship?” My answers are simply that I don’t get bored and that I like to read books but never seem to get the time for it in my normal life. Also, the food is plentiful, and 153