Maverick Rover World

Blog Post #84

Celebrity Eclipse Repositioning Cruise 

(Still at sea, approaching the

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal)


                                               Room with a view, NOT !

on this rainy day at sea


                         Oh no, I'm already posting photos of food. 

At least it was a tasty treat


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We will have had 5, yes 5, time changes during our cruise. 

This messes with our sleep patterns but what the heck else is there to do anyway, 

but change the clock on your phone?

Well, there is a lot to do: 

READ:        I just read David Archuleta's memoir "DEVOUT"

WALK:       There is a wonderful walking track on board

EAT:           All day / night buffet; main dining room; several specialty restaurants

EAT:           Main dining room for breakfast, lunch or dinner

EAT:           Several specialty restaurants

EAT:           Snak bars

EAT:           Ice cream / cookie station

THEATER:  Amazing shows every night in the Eclipse Theater

SHOPPING: Not for us

CASINO:    Again, not for us

OUTDOOR MOVIES: When the weather obliges

SUN DECK: Remember the sun screen!

GYM:    Open 24 / 7 thankfully, along with yoga, pilates & stretch classes

SPA:    Massage, hair salon, manicure station, teeth whitening, etc. 

AND SO MUCH MORE...glass blowing, library, lectures, meeting other travelers, etc. 


Oops, more food choices in the buffet


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                       Another amazing performance 

by the same group who did TOPPER


Singers, Dancers & Aerialists

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Sky tram over the hills of Madeira 



Welcome to Madeira, Portugal
Roger and Ron say Olá
in Português

Mother's Day
(different date from the US)
street art in flowers


                              **********

                       travel poem: 


                                                           Tide


Tides roll in as I approach dream sleep

The night sea is writing a poem

With a splash, a grind, churn and a growl

Its stanzas continue through the night


Rocks are talking as they tumble together

A family affair they hug and caress

their smooth edges approaching polish

A stanza is written


Tides splash the shore with crystal spray

Droplets fly then sit in new found homes

Watering plants and washing my feet

A stanza is written


Undercurrents dig up logs of old

Now the logs roll back and forth

And forth and back on the shore

A stanza is written


Sand dabs rush beneath the sand 

Quickly before the sand pipers find lunch

Sand dab tracks and sand piper tracks become one

A stanza is written


Sea shells of orange and grey rest on the shoal

Glisten and attract the passersby

Churning and churning the sea melts the shells

A stanza is written


By morning light a poem emerges

Five stanzas long and as wide as the sea

Written with ease like breaths of a babe

A poem is written


ramosser









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