Cruise Ship Stories

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Sep 10, 202218 min read

The Panama Canal - engineering achievement and common sense

Between 1984 and 2002 I crossed the Panama Canal many times on different cruise ships. Each time I was fascinated by this monumental...

Aug 17, 202217 min read

A Salute to the Silver Screen

On the transatlantic crossing from Fort Lauderdale, USA to Piraeus, Greece in 1995, world famous and award winning movie stars were on...

Aug 15, 202226 min read

How I experienced the People's Republic of China, Part II

Meanwhile onboard the Royal Viking Star interesting thing happened. Hotel Manager Tore Elisassen left and Franz Langer was promoted....

Aug 13, 202224 min read

How I experienced the People's Republic of China, Part I

Royal Viking Line brought me to China, for the first time in 1984, first class of course. The excitement was huge. In Highschool we had a...

Aug 11, 202215 min read

A cruise without food

It happened on the Silver Wind in the summer of 1997. Actually a large luxury yacht with 296 guests and 212 employees. It was the first...

Aug 8, 20228 min read

An Amazon cruise with surprises.

In the summer of 1991, I started working as a hotel director for the Seabourn cruise line. The Norwegian private shipowner Atle...

Aug 6, 202220 min read

The story behind the culinary story

Even though I studied business management, first and foremost I am a trained cook. I also startet on the Royal Viking Star as a cook on...

Aug 5, 202215 min read

Troubles on the Sky

First time I boarded the Royal Viking Sky in Barcelona, Spain on the 22. of August 1985. By that time I was a well established Food &...

Jul 30, 202223 min read

The Last Frontier

In my twenty years on the seven seas I have been able to visit many beautiful places on this earth. But Alaska remains a very special...

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