Cruising the Med
I just returned from a week long cruise to the Mediterranean. We made the 11-hour homeward journey Wednesday, and my body clock has still not adjusted. We visited a number of places on our trek through the Med: Rome, Pisa, Lucca, Naples, Livorno, Taormina, Sorrento, and Pompeii (Italy), Valletta (Malta) and Dubrovnik (Croatia). We had a great time, and we had the opportunity to see some amazing sites.
Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure. Click any picture to be taken to the Picasa Album.
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What Cruise Line did you go with? Where they any good? What did you notice “Tech Wise?”
@josh We went with Holland America Line. Yep, they’re good. I actually worked with them for five months in 2006 and I knew a number of the crew onboard. Pretty cool. I have a pretty good understanding of the tech of the ship since I lived on the ship for so long previously.
The show lounge is nifty with all it’s moving lights (spots and floods and mirrored whatsits), projection system, video wall in the rear of the stage that can be lifted entirely on the fly system, pit in the front that descends 20 feet, massive turntable in center stage, confetti launchers, pyrotechnics, and tons of other jazz. Oh yeah, the sub woofers are pretty sweet too. They go overboard showing off all their toys though – just because you have it doesn’t mean you have to use it.
The IT infrastructure is interesting, one domain that links all 14 ships together through their satellite Internet connection. They do most of their information sharing through Outlook public folders… weird, eh? They have TONS of information in zillions of public folders. The rest of the information sharing is done through their intranet. Each ship has one IT person.
What else do you want to know from a tech perspective? I have the hook-up for information on that line.