Musings on ‘MacMania 4.5’
MM 4.5 — Day 5: A Sacred Sculpture
Why is it that harbors aren’t more inviting? We’re here in beautiful Barcelona, and apart from the long-distance view towards the city, the closer concrete-all-over surroundings of the harbor are just as bland and uninviting as those in Civitavechia or Livorno. Nobody’s expecting to see the Ramblas boulevard reach right into the center of the […]
MM 4.5 — Day 4: Great Shots Galore
It’s another “first” for me today: we’re on our way from Livorno to Barcelona and are at sea the whole day. No matter in which direction you’re looking, there is only water around us. What I expected to be mildly scary feels very serene and calming, instead. This is “being away from it all” in […]
MM 4.5 — Day 3: La Dolce Vita Italiana
Darn, why do most of these shore excursions start so early in the morning. If you spend all night geeking out with some very cool Mac folks, and tuck in at the late night snack buffet, having to get up to catch the excursion bus around 8am is a major challenge.
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Today, we were off to […]
MM 4.5 — Day 2: The Monaco Myth
This morning, it would have been time for the first MacMania session of the cruise: David Pogue’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger presentation. But, somehow, I could not get out of bed in time. Not. At. All. I was suffering from a severe case of Vacation Sleepiness.
This happens a lot when I go on vacation: […]
MM 4.5 — Day 1: The Virgin
I can hardly believe this is actually happening: although I’m still in my — admittedly (very [very]) late — thirties, I have started off on my first cruise vacation today!
This is not your average cruise, mind you, as I’m joining some 70, or so, other travelers for the MacMania 4.5 geek cruise. The concept is […]