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Cruise Q&A Live From Silver Endeavour: Sunday 3 November 2024 (Noon ET / 9am PT / 5pm UK)
Jan 28, 2025
Join me as I sail from the Falklands to South Georgia for a Cruise Q&A Live From Silver Endeavour: Sunday 3 November 2024 (Noon ET / 9am PT / 5pm UK)
Ask me about expedition cruising, the trip so far or anything about cruising you want to know
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[Music] well hello everybody and it's a very big welcome from on board silver Endeavor
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and we're in south Georgia and um all the tests I've done so far the Wi-Fi's
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been picked was a little bit jittery before we got here uh because we're now in a bay surrounded by mountains so a
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couple of catchup bits and pieces and I'll get going sorry for the chopping and changing of times of the uh uh the
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live stream you might find Visual as I can see from the thing I'm testing because of the Wi-Fi I might freeze
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every now and again but certainly hopefully the audio will keep going so um stick with it as it were sorry about
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the CHP and change of timings uh because uh we got to South Georgia earlier than
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planned so we were going to do outings then the wind because we've been Storm's been we've been running ahead of a storm
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winds are up to 60 70 M hour it's too choppy to get out so we've now come into a bay so let me actually show you
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quickly where we are and hopefully I don't ruin the Wi-Fi so here we are this is part of South Georgia we've come into
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a bay um so we're now resting not resting hiding from the wind we were
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hopefully we hung out for a while outside sorcy plane which of course is just absolutely phenomenal um and
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hopefully we'll get there tomorrow the idea is at the Cracker tomorrow we'll try and see if we can get in there before the wind comes up so let me um
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let me do a few bits and pieces of housekeep and remember if you got a question right the word question if you want to talk about um anything cruising
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or Expedition cruising um ideally yes because that's where I am so we set off a couple of days ago or and just
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reminding everybody that you need to be extremely flexible with an expedition Cruise our embarcation Port got changed
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because it was too stormy and windy so we got flown by chart plane instead of
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to pter William to penus we then set sail we spent a couple days at Sea we
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then did some stops in uh the Forkland um and then we had what was supposed to
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be two days at Sea the captain put his foot down because we as I said we're trying to get ahead of a storm uh in
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fact the storm help pushed us along and we arrived basically a day early in south Georgia but it's now too windy to do anything um but it is absolutely
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stunning we surround by those mountains that I showed you by the way if you do want to follow in more detail the trip
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that I'm doing two places you can do it on Instagram a couple people refer to Instagram at Gary benbridge um I post
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stories every day also I've been posting um a daily sort of update blog uh to
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patrons and channel members so do that patreon is actually slightly better than channel members because I can put more
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photographs in but um so if you want to do that it's patreon.com tips for travelers so let's
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get stuck into some of the questions I just want to say a big shout out to Mark um who's on board here uh in silver DEA
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along with uh his lovely wife Nanette um and of course you might have some of you all know Mark from uh the group crws um
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and we both booked on this trip so it's been great to catch up with them uh so that's that's great and they're very
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excited as well so you can also follow some of their postings um soet posts bits and pieces on social media as well
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so let's get stuck into the questions so I'm just having a look uh to see if there's any um
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actual um Expedition cruises and I will come back and answer other questions so
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let me do a couple of questions related to this and I have seen the others I've noticed I quite like this new layout
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that um uh streamyard is doing for the questions anyway Tom who's a regular on
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here is asking from Facebook how do you rate this Cruise versus the other Antarctic cruises you have taken well
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Tom of course it's kind of still early days um but for those who know I came in
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2019 on Silver sea I just did the classic um Antartica Peninsula trip and
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um then I did Pont which did the South Georgia and Antarctica Peninsula and I
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decided I had to come back to South Georgia because it dra just so absolutely mindboggling you know these
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450,000 nesting pairs of penguins in ssy plane which tomorrow uh elephant seals
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etc etc um and now I came back to Silver sea I came back to Silver sea for two reasons one of which I really rated the
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Expedition team because I've done Expeditions with them now um in the Arctic in gpus and Antarctica and I was
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very keen to try the new ship silver Endeavor to see basically how um that
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sort of stacked up so um so far um I would say uh it's a parallel I guess and
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we will see how it goes I was very concerned about the Expedition team when we started I was a bit concerned by the
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quality of presentations I must say since they we've got into our stride perhaps more into the territory that they recruited and familiar with they
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look like very strong I've been to or but one of the talks in fact I missed the talk this afternoon so I missed two
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talks the talks have been excellent very knowledgeable very well presented you
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know good slides very tight they 45 minutes they ended 45 minutes uh very very very good so far so we will see
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over time because the make or break in reality is how good the Expedition team is in terms of the ship um I like the ship
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uh I'm probably feel that the Seaborn Pursuit which I did Kim with is probably
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a nicer ship than this ship overall but it's a very nice ship um a couple of little funny design quirks which
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hopefully silver SE will iron out and I'll talk more about that once I've got more used to those food's been good the
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Cru on S call him by name they start to know what you do so that's that's kind of good I think the fundamental thing
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Tom is you know the South Georgia part is really fundamental um and the an artic so I'll better be able to answer
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that um obviously a little bit later so Lynn hopefully I've answered your question about why I chose silver SE
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versus Seaborn um I chose Seaborn because they have been silver because they have been doing Expedition and
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dedicated Expedition for a little bit longer than Seaborn I know Seaborn used to bring some of the other ships down
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here before they got their dedicated Expedition ships so I had just so much more confidence in silver sea hav't been
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on Seaborn I would probably consider them um I didn't think the Expedition team was as strong now that may be a
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function of those in kimy I did really like the ship though um and if this Expedition team is kind of really hot I
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would probably reconsider them but the things is when you're spending you know you know tens of thousands of pounds of
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dollars to go on next you know you have to be absolutely kind of confident um so that's why I I chose them and they were
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very Seaborn were very new at time when I booked this because I booked this quite a long time um behind ahead a
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couple people referring to the updates um which is great so let's have a look
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um so I'll keep going I know some people have asked other questions that I will
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come back to so don't worry I will come back to those so Beth you mentioned in your updates that on one of your zodiac
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excursions you had a water landing did you have to pack your own waiter boots or do they provide them for you so Beth
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um what you can do is you can hire now I do have boots that I have originally got bought
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through silver SE they give this thing called um ship to shore I think it's called and you can order through them
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and it gets delivered to the ship so when I did the Arctic originally I ordered Boots the waterproof trousers um
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and some of the uh the layers they give you the Parker by the way this Parker here uh they give everybody so everyone
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has the same Parker this is a great Parker very warm lots of pockets um and bits and pieces so they give you that
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but you do need to bring your own a waterproof trousers that go over now with the boots I didn't bring my own um
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this time I hired them uh and it cost $98 for the cruise plus
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$100 um uh refundable deposit personally I wish I'd actually brought my own boots
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because the boots that I have are much more comfortable um than the ones I've got so the thing with boots is you need
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to order them much bigger than your normal foot size because you because you need apparently air because it keeps
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your feet warmer and you always just put on a couple of layers of thick socks and I've got a couple of thick socks so my
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Sho my boots are a little bit tight I did try and get a bigger size they found one but it's not quite big enough so
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it's actually qu boots are less comfortable than my own but you don't have to bring your own but you do need to bring your own order trousers I think
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you can also hire those as well but you need your sort of undergarments you need to buy or bring but as I said most of
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the cruise lines including Pont did it I think Seaborn does it don't quite me on that but check is they often let you buy
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and it gets a littleit to ship so you don't have to kind of uh carry them so hopefully um Dean I've answered that
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question there around why did I choose those um let's have a look Sarah um I'm
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really enjoying the daily updates great so as I mentioned I'm doing those daily updates on channel members and on
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patreon um as I said the patreon updates just get more photos because you can put
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five photos and in a square format for channel members but I can basically stuff as many as I want to in the
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patreon um uh so traveling Silver Cloud I enjoy my time in Silver Cloud it's a much older ship obviously than this one
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but I I really enjoy my time and Silver Cloud is it possible to buy one day only with premium Wi-Fi or you committed to
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the full Cruise now that's a good point because I did notice you could buy a one day um premium so just to let people
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know what silver SE does is they have included Wi-Fi in their Fair however despite having installed starlink they
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have this very bizarre thing they've done quite recently where on the standard Wi-Fi you cannot do audio and
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video calling you can't actually even post to social media so you have to buy the premium Wi-Fi the premium Wi-Fi for
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this 18 night cruise was $380 I bought two devices because I obviously have one that I try and upload
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photos and uh backup videos and all that sort of stuff and work on so I bought
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for two devices and it was $731 so it is quite a lot but if you're on standard Wi-Fi this rely can do and
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it's very strange that they've squeezed I was talking to actually someone that I who's a passenger discovered he actually
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works to Silver wants to remain in C because they're on vacation but um I'd rans about the Wi-Fi to them before
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realizing they worked for silvery but um I found a very strange decision because
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you know even if I look like I was mentioning inette earlier she's posting fantastic pictures and stuff because I
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guess her Mar have premium Wi-Fi I'm guessing um so she's able to post it you
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know it's an incredible marketing tool it's like seems very bizarre the other thing which they've done which is proving a little bit controversial for
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those who know um just remember by the way the Wi-Fi can seees now because we're here so I'm at freeze but
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hopefully the audio will keep going so go with it so um they've also uh scrapped I noticed when they did the
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introduction to the Expedition team they didn't mention the photographer and the videographer now traditionally on a
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silver sea Expedition they would at the end they used to sell them and then they gave them for free You' get a package of
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incredible photos and a video of the trip now silver SE have just recently scrapped that I've seen the official
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statement now from uh uh Lauren Comet if I remember if I pronounce it correctly
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who's the head of silvery Expeditions with some baloney around they've heard feedback from Travelers the feedback
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from Travelers is they want it they us this complicated thing they put them on a USB stick Seaborn uh they would just
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aird drop the photos and give you a link to download so you didn't have all that waste of of uh USB 6 like I use a Mac
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there's not even a US kind and plug in a USB anyway so they've scrapped that so um long way I've answered your question
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Sarah but as you seen generally speaking the Wi-Fi is pretty good but when I talk to passengers they are a little bit
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annoyed about the Wi-Fi particularly when you're away for so long uh so yeah
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so Sarah asked a following question which has also disappeared um and I guess that's because the photographer
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and videographer gone when I went on Silver Cloud um they actually had a room
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which had computer set up with the um you know the editing software like Lightroom and so on so I would often go
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and I used to take more kind of DSL photos I could go and use Lightroom I didn't have to do my computer um they
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don't have that so they don't have it on the ship um but they and they don't if they still have it on Silver Cloud but
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they seem to have dialed back from that which is also interesting because Seaborn are specifically in adding in um
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on the Expedition photography related uh outings and excursions as well so it's
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interesting that they've kind of gone a little bit uh the other way Brian I've long considered an
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Antarctica trip but I'm worried I've waited too long that the ice is disappearing I would enjoy hearing about experiences once you arrive so I mean um
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I I certainly found in the Arctic um the the Melt is much more significant there
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in Antarctic clear it's it's it's happening um it's changing there is the volume of ice is so enormous that you
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don't sortly for us lay people we don't notice as much one of the presentations today
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um one of the uh people was showing for example just the difference in some retreating of the um ice uh you know of
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the glaciers in fact there was for South Georgia we have to do very detailed mandatory uh bio security briefings and
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King all our external out uh um garments and things like our if you got walking
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poles or uh tripods and on there's a video which they showed and David aten showed even how much a uh a glacia that
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he visited in in south Georgia in I think it was 1970 early 1970s and I
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guess that film was done maybe four five I saw the film at least five years ago
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for the first time so it's at least 5 years old and he was showing how much it had retreated so there's definitely a lot of retreating but you see a lot of
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ice a lot of icebergs um but you're right you you know things are changing fast and it's a good reason if one
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possibly can afford the time and the money to do it uh sooner see the world um would you which
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Expedition line would you say is the best food and fitness facilities um well I've obviously only done ponant uh
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silver sea and Seaborn um I would say of those three sea s sea silver SE both of
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my other ones I've been on had the best food uh um and in terms of Fitness
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facilities you know the newer ship so this has quite a nice uh gym here which I've been using uh my usual two days on
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one days off do my like ptin class um they do a few classes fairly early
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morning the thing with Expedition cruises is sorry they're dinging donging now so sorry you're going to hear some
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announcement or other so we just afternoon ladies and gentlemen good afternoon Captain has just decided to
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allow some decks to be opened please do be very cautious and careful as of
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course it is incredibly windy but we will have some Expedition stuffff out on
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Deck six forward so you can go to deck six forward the deck crew are opening
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that up for us at the moment and you can also go outside on Deck nine the side
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doors and there will be some Expedition stuff there also so by the observation lounge and the study we will open the
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decks Al so either deck six forward outside or on Deck nine in that way you
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can be out in the elements and enjoying the beautiful scenery and also really
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experience this rugged and wild place with the winds that we are currently having so please do take care on the
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outer decks it will be wet and a little bit slippery and dress warmly if you
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step outside it's very exciting because actually the um the decks have been
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closed since when we left the Forkland because these enormous big winds but the good news I guess because in the bay we
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we can go outside so I've been uh nipping out onto my balcony um but obviously I'm on the starboard Sid I've
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only seeing one view this is a real 360 view so that's very exciting to be able to go outside um and also just smell the
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smells and and be outside so very exciting she was also talking about um deck 64 that's actually the bow of the
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ship so that's very that's fantastic that we can go onto the bow ship because certainly later on the cruise when we're pushing through ice that becomes very
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very important um so sorry I was answer the question so what I was saying to see the world is exposition cruises are very
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full on so in reality uh the fitness centers actually don't get used in the end that much because you know we had a
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the other morning I had a 715 a.m. tomorrow I'm guessing it's going to be really early you know maybe
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600 or s in the morning and you you in and out and then there's lectures and briefings and stuff so um you you know
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but it's those were the Pont one wasn't great at all um now I haven't been on the newer ships um like Lan shako I
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haven't been on those as such but certainly on the the Lal they weren't very good um
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facilities Jeff how does booking the excursions on silvery different from your other Expedition cruises so on an
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expedition Cruise there are no you don't book any excursions and now said one exception which is very unusual on
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Expedition there are no such things as excursions there's either zodiac cruises or uh Landings and you are allocated a
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group uh which here there's four groups four different colors I'm in the red group and then what happens is two of
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the groups will go out at one time because you're only allowed 100 people 183 people on the ship up to maximum 200
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can come on these trips so um they will send half the people out say to do a landing and then they will come back and
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the other half will go and that's just in so if you don't feel like going out you don't go out so there's no choice
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it's we're Landing in um s plane uh you either come or you don't come uh or you're doing a around icebergs you
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either come or you don't come now there was one small exception which is very unusual uh in Port Stanley because it's
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really just a town uh they did offer four traditional Cruise excursions in
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reality so one was a hike one was a harlot of the the the city one was a sort of a hike or town should I say one
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was a hike around some Cliffs and stuff so um that was the only time me had to choose but on any other Expedition Cru
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it's it's the same thing it's literally just um uh you do in terms of leaving
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the ship you're either going to go on the Zodiac to do a landing you're going to go on zodiac to do uh cruising uh
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cruising around something uh so let's have a quick uh look uh I I do know
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there's other questions so I am focusing a little bit on the um Expedition ones and I will come back to the others so
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don't panic I will definitely try on that KB in the UK good to see you here
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uh antartic have you heard anything with the Pacific Circle cruise with Princess out of Sydney in 2027 now there is
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um there is a cruise that I have seen soorry those isn't going to be a Expedition cruise but I see what you're doing and Gary the Antarctic um I have
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saw that I saw advertised on Facebook it looks pretty good it's a it's a long I think it's a 71 night trip it looks fantastic that you know looks fantastic
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um was it Island Princess it's on it does look pretty good um let's have a
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quick look if there's any more uh uh bab boys after being on
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endeav do you feel it's worth exing C compared to Spirit Wind yes I think it probably is uh just because this is so
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Des mind as an expedition ship now I know the others they've strengthened the holes Etc of some of the others but this
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is just so much more geared to expedition in terms of the facilities you know the mudroom uh you know just
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the flow of of stuff um and they can go deeper into the ice they can push into
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the ice where needed so I I would always tend to go with an expedition ship but I think you're right if it's a choice of
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going or not going and the price differential is Big then then obviously go would would would be would be my my
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view Brian's asking almost an impossible question Antarctica and South Georgia Cru or Explorer for Spain Florida I
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would I mean Antarctica is the best place in the world to come on a cruise and it is
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outrageously expensive um but it nothing in the world beats come into Antarctica
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so doing a reposition Cruise will be great but uh you know a lot of people
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talk about how you your changed when you come to Antarctica you really do you
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know you get the sort of like you're overcome by the whole place it's very emotional you know I know when I went to
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S playing I was almost in tears it was just mindboggling it sounds very dramatic but it is just incredible what
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you see the sights The Sounds the scale of the place um so you you literally if
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if you could possibly do that I would absolutely see anarctica as the the thing to do if you possibly can uh you
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know you know um financially it's it's a huge huge commitment um Leia um how far
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in Advan you book an Antarctica Expedition I want to plan a trip but I'm sure when uh I mean because they are so
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expensive it's a lot of it is around budgeting when you know and you figure out okay the deposit and when do I need
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to pay so um I think they and when they so I I think I'm right in saying that
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they've started to release the season because know The Season's quite short it's basically from November to about March or in some cases it's really
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November to February uh so The Season's quite short they do get full quite quickly generally speaking because the
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ship can take 200 passengers if you do the true kind of expedition side some ships come down here with more but you
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get fewer Landings um so I booked uh I booked this one let me think this is now
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where are we 24 I probably booked this in 22 um because you're booking so many seasons in advance I think I'm right in
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saying that they might have released 26 27 some of the lines um so you know far
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in advance to make sure that you get the right itinerary you want the cabin you want uh and obviously the whole the
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whole budgeting thing phras this here um this looks am this trip looks amazing and it does amazing and it only really
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starts proper now that we're in south Georgia what's the average age like on a cruise like this one I would say
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Fraser that the average age is probably my sort of age uh so 45 so like mid-60s
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I would say um but you do have a very diverse uh range you know you've got some people who probably I'm guessing
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are in their 20s lot of them are maybe here with their parents maybe their parents are paying very lucky them um
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but you know because these trips are from a Time perspective like this is 18 nights on the C cruise but you need to
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be in s uh Santiago a couple of days before and getting home so You' probably talking about a good you know three- week or so trip so people need the time
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and obviously the the the the resources to do that so that's sort of the the average age but there is quite a range
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I'm guessing the youngest people are probably in their 20s um but you do need to also be quite active because you're
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climbing in out of zodiacs you're going the hike we did if you you know we the
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hike we did um the second hike we did we did two hikes like in one day in the
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first Forkland the second hike was probably about five miles there and back quite hilly uh territory U you know
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you're Jing on Ice you're climbing up big kind of hills with nice and slow so you do need to be relatively active as
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well so that sort of um regulates I guess uh the the age the age side
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um John uh we basically taking the same Cruise in Silver Cloud in January does silver SE provide a sugest of clothing
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and gear to bring is $198 so it's $98 to rent the boots with $100 refundable
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deposit um so yes is the answer but it's $98 for the cruise they do uh they will
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send you quite a couple of months before the cruise they'll send you something so you first of all choose the size of your
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Parker and then they will send through a a list a link to I think it's called
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Silver se. ship tosh.com or something like that which is a shop where it will tell you the you can buy basic packages
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of clothes you can maybe just buy the waterproof trousers or you can buy the boots or you can buy all the under stuff
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as well um but yes they do provide a list also um on the Facebook group
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silver SE passengers they have quite a good set of resources they have a website with a lot of good resources as
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well um but the secret really in reality is bizly on the daily program they put a
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dress code which people pay absolute attention to you can go to jeans you can go in whatever you wanted to to meals I
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think in ladam they do sort of stress you have to dress up for Lam but no one really pays attention to the dress code
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even though they say it um lers so you want your kind of under stuff like a
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Long John's I guess we call in the UK I guess everyone calls them long johns so you have that sort of insulating layer
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big thick socks um you want under gloves and overg gloves which are waterproof uh
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then you need loads of hats neck Gators then you have another layer so what I tend to do when I go out like it's
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really cold like it's going to be just looking they're predicting tomorrow it's going to be between minus5 Celsius andus
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10 Celsius which is uh that's like really cold I don't know what Fahrenheit
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numbers will come up in a second the moment it's about 1 and a half degrees here but the wind chill makes it colder
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uh so I'm just looking at the television screen so whatever that is in Fahrenheit so it's 14 Fahrenheit to 23 fah is they
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projecting tomorrow um but so what I would normally do is I normally put under under stuff on I actually put
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jeans on tell I should jeans but anyway I put jeans on um then I will have my um
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long da top on I'll normally put like like a jumper or something then I have like another like a zippy top and then I
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put my Parker on um my neck Gator and hats which cover your ears and
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sunglasses are really important because it's very bright but I do have a list somewhere as well um if that helps
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um dicky do we're back um so uh how's the weather are you what are you wearing
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to supper okay so hope you have answered the supper question wear whatever you want to wear uh I I wear jeans I worn
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dark jeans I might wear blue jeans um so that's fine you can wear what you want
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to dinner uh the weather you've just heard me talk about the weather it's now getting pretty cold it's going to hover around Zer Celsius so like 32 but it's
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uh with the storm in the winds it's pretty cold um in terms of what I wish I'd packed um I think you heard me
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earlier if you heard earlier I wish i' brought my boots with me so I had boots that I knew were very comfortable um and
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that was more because we had a very long hike um so it was a bit uncomfortable with boots that I was less keen on um
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and the other thing I would say is although I have bought it this time but just bring you know if you got a camera
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loads of batteries loads of SD cards a little thing to back up your photos because in the cold batter's uh Power
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runs down much quicker I learned that before I went on my first trip so battery power tends to go down much quicker in the cold apparently um so you
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can never bring enough layers on hats it would be the thing um and don't bring lots of fancy clothes really don't
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bother bring warm stuff is is what I could what I could do
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um let's have a look uh so let's have a look there's a couple of other bits and questions here uh so in terms of the par
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so I actually I ordered I ordered a large um which is sort of the signs I would normally earn order for a coat
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they do give you opportunity also to to swap Parker so we had a a boot swap
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session um but the key size is the problem with me is I I had a size 10 um
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and I want 11 or 12 but that's what everyone wanted so actually they struggled to find a replacement pair Parkers and they did a Parker swap as
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well so I mean in reality because you're going be lots of layers you could go a little bit bigger but I did choose a large which is perfectly perfectly fine
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because they are quite uh quite big big size so other people go a size bigger
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but you do get a chance to kind of swap them around so let me pick up some other
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questions on the way um and I will come back and check if there's any others Paul um someone on emam suggest you do
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crew swap which Seaborn you take a care um Paul people suggested to be honestly
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I think that's like not a great idea in reality I mean Emma has of course she
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just been on yach Club so she's been on yach Club she's been on asamara luxury cruises so you know Emma goes on luxury
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cruises anyway so um and covers those I know she will normally POS do it as
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trying to do the cheapest option she can but she does do Luxury cruising as well trying to look at with a with spin so
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it's not like it would be completely alien to her um and in reality the the
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crossover between Emma's Channel and mine is not as big as people I think it is so YouTube will give you data on what
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other the channels people are watching and the Crossovers not that great so I don't really see if someone can think of
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a good story um that would make sense um but I'm not really sure I can see the
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angle there um because as I said em has covered luxury cruising uh so it's it's
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not that it will be a complete kind of new story um and stuff so um you know I
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may go on an inside cabin at some point to cover that because people often ask for my take on that but I would probably
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do more because I think people want to to watch it so I'm a bit skeptical of that but if someone does have a great story that would make sense then um then
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uh then then I'm always open to I'm always open to good ideas Adam um I have
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never been through the Welland Canal um is the well and the one that goes into
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the Great Lakes I'm not sure anyway I haven't been through it wherever wherever it is um Tonto here's a more
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general question beyond the normal courtesy are there rules about taking and Publishing photos of other passengers on cruises so in reality this
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is gets very complex um it I mean I I try to be fairly uh discreet if I
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possibly can um but it's one of those um things where it's sort of people are in a public space I know there's lots of
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legal definitions around that um so I think the main thing that I would particularly focus on is particularly if
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you're going to feature someone so if I'm taking pictures of crew or when I'm out and about if I want to take pictures
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of people doing something uh so for example we did the when the one of the things we had at that long hike there
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was an afternoon tea at the end and I want to do a little video of the table and the lady doing tea um and she so you
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know said can I take a video of this and she was like uh I don't really want my voice recorded for example um she didn't
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want you know a lot of people don't like this under voice she want her voice recorded for example so stuff stuff like
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that um so uh you know I think it's about being kind of discreet but in
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reality you know if you're taking pictures of people out out and about um
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they they are going to be in you know in it by definition uh Jo my Cruz let's have a
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look I'm just trying to make sure that I want to catch any other Cruisers that I
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sorry cruises any other questions that I might have missed that were more general
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ones uh let's have a look um okay here's
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a question uh Teresa Teresa uh we're cruising last summer and your guides
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have been Fab good that's good to know on the white P are seats allocated no um
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seats aren't allocated so they obviously have two types you can book the premium one where it has 12 passengers they're
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not specific allocated in the main Cab in other cabins they're not allocated so it's kind of first come first serve um
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they do argue that because the ship the train actually turns round so they argue that no matter which side you're on now
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you will get the best views as it were in the old days before they built a little Loop um the train would go up and
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they'd move the the the um the engine and so you'd go back down so people on
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the one side on the sort of the left hand side as you headed out had the best of you both ways now it it it it um it
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changes around is it advantage of booking direct rather than by often it can be slightly cheaper the advantage
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with booking with kot is normally the cruise line if the train uh the train comes to the to the to the ship so you
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basic get off the ship and the train will be there if you're booking it direct you have to go a little bit into town which depending on which which
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birth you've got it's not necessary very far but normally the cruise line they will have a dedicated train uh and so
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they the train line comes right to the ship uh in so that's a very small walk
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so that's that's kind of balancing it often that the train that the cruise lines got will will often stop in town
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to pick up people as as well um so there there you go um hopefully that answers
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your cruise I get a this a lot please be book an ambass of cruise um I will at some
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point book Ambassador I do keep looking at it I get asked that one a lot probably more so than the question about
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inside cabins is probably I would probably do Ambassador before uh that one in reality keyboard is playing up
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late to live mixed up the time uh you might not have mixed up the time because I kept I did actually change the time
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because originally we were going to be landing um looked like we're going to do a landing so i' pushed the time back so
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um there we go Kathy is here let's have a look see I just want to make sure I
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don't miss any um silver wind wish I packed I'm answer
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that b Bo had a terrible experience on Scenic which sounded pretty horrible I've seen lot some more reviews on that
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Scenic thing it does sound pretty pretty bad uh here we go here's another question so Lee you talked about Aila
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doing the video re last week can you talk about it did some research it looks fascinating so for those who don't know you AA is a pretty new line it's
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competitor to Hut grutin and I think I'm around is saying that they H Gren used to have the sole contract for mail and
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Freight uh you know moving cars and people up and down the Norwegian
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Coastline looks like a new new entrant which has some of that as well so they do very similar itineries they are very
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ecob based ships so they are um you know a lot of battery power and so on so
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they're trying to be even more Eco Hot G are doing the same thing as well I haven't been on them yet but a couple of
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people I know have been um so uh for example Amber uh I try remember her T
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her name her Channel now is it cruising with Amber did uh a price trip of that she did some very good detailed videos
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on it but they are very very interesting as well a couple of people have tried them and and they really like them in fact I think Emma Emma to about Emma
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Emma Cruzes did a a short couple of days on it as well and she really liked them as as well uh Lou doing a nice shout out
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for the stuff on patreon just R I'm doing daily updates um are from patreon
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uh members um so that's there we go uh okay so Pacer 21 can you give me the
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name of a good travel company in Toronto you can book everything from the cruise preflights blah blah blah so um I don't
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know if they're based in Toronto but on my um site uh on my tips of Travelers
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blog and I'll leave a link in this I have an article which is around why you should use a travel agent and
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recommendations I do have a recommendation for a Canadian travel agent uh who was recommended very
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strongly by people who follow the channel um and couple people who have started using them and they give me some
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very good feedback I will try and leave a link um PES 21 to that article but if not if you go to uh tipsfor
36:41
travelers.com if to look down on the left hand side um with the most viewed
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posts at the moment that article should be showing up there because it's I posted about it recently if not to search travel agent and you'll also find
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uh find that uh that that one as well uh Susan I see a silver exp Cruis on
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Britain including the fa a Kilda I haven't looked at I I know they do um some of those Expedition cruises it
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probably hasn't appealed to me because it's just too close to home I guess um but I have I know they do some of them
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and particularly when they sort of because they you know the ships um during the northern hemisphere summer hit up kind of the Arctic way now the
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challenge they've got is salal introducing new restrictions around the size of ships and the number of
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passengers which which means many ships so for example Seaborn uh ships their their expedition ships I think ships
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like this are not too big to do fbad so a lot of them are also looking at new permutations of the Arctic which is why
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I think we're probably seeing more Greenland Canadian AR Canadian Arctic and so on and and as they move up they
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kind of do various Expedition trips although it's interesting this ship actually did some reposition without passengers so before we got on it it
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sailed down to uh what was going to be putter Williams ended up being buenus uh
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without passengers uh basically uh which is unusual because normally they they they sell kind of legs of those um
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Bill uh has another uh question planning trip next to Norwegian fi so get Hood to gr or Hond America how short excursions
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now I've only done the short excursions no I've never been to on either of those to Norway I've been on many other lines
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but what looking at the various things when I looked when I had booked it got canceled in the end um hoi grutin has uh
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excursions which the way that the H grien works is because the ship keeps moving so it'll stop at three or four
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ports a day what they do with the excursions is you'll get off in a port normally and the ship will leave and
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you'll rejoin the ship a little bit further up during the later in the day uh where they've gone to it's sort of
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how many of the exion works they they're quite immersive um they don't have as big a choice H Amica will do more
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traditional kind of crw stuff so I found the H ones were more immersive in Norwegian culture and stuff but again
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they will still do some of the s s on they're kind of kind of similar because the things to see are kind of uh the
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things the things to see um Mark uh ask
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a question around drinks packages uh is it worth buying the drinks package of the 51-day cruise to Australian que too
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so Mark drinks package is quite a complicated thing now if you've priced the amount that that will cost you that
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it's kind of eye wateringly expensive one of the things I would suggest you do Mark if you're unsure is um uh look at
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how much you think you will drink now there's a couple of sites that have some very good calculators where you put in
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roughly what you think you're going to drink and it tells you whether it's worth getting the drinks package now um there's one on cruiser.com but there's
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another one on cruise.co.uk I think probably use the cruise mommy. oop sorry I'm bagging my thing probably look at
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the cruise.co.uk one because I think she specifically has kunut in I can't remember if crule has it in but it it'll
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prompt you and say how many drinks will you have how many glass of wine will you have how beers how many cocktails and it will tell you whether it's you know
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whether it's better to buy those ad hoc but the the outlay is going to be absolutely enormous so then look at the
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terms and conditions I actually have a video coming out next week no the week after the video is finished it just
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hasn't gone live yet about drinks packages and I dive into drinks packages in a lot of detail um so if you can wait
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at two or three weeks um that video will be out where I talk about the drinks calculators how to calculate stuff pros
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and cons that kind of stuff um but that's a quick way of deciding you know the cost of that is so enormous it's
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hard to imagine uh that one would drink just that pure volume also look at what's included I can't remember the qot
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cut off but you know you're only allowed certain amount of drinks per day um and there's a cut of Point what they are if
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you're a big Wine Drinker sometimes the package does don't really work so it might be better to buy a wine package uh
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if you are particularly interested in quality wines for example so you need to kind of balance uh balance balance those
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th those things out Brian I think I've answered this in terms of spawning as
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passengers cabinet amities food choices uh which Expedition L rates the highest
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um so I'm still leaning on that front towards Sil sea uh they have the the
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main restaurant they have the grill which at night becomes like a steakhouse thing and then they have um an Italian
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restaurant tatao obviously they have room service as well um then they have
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ladam so you have those choices and you go to those included special ladam has a fee you can go to the others it seems
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pretty much as often as you want so I booked uh the Italian and the grill a couple of couple of times the thing that
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none of them have which is real pity although Pont did have is they don't have like a casual dining option so on
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those nights like last night I didn't really want to go to the restaurant so I ordered room service and the room service the okay you can order from the
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main restaurant but there's no way you can just SNP in and have a kind of a snack and the same thing on Seaborn for
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example um Pont did have the casual dining option which I I did really like
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um so I think yes so Alex um in terms of room service you can normally um order
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from when the restaurants are open so for example I could order um off the
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restaurant any of the restaurant menus between 700 p.m. and I think 9900 p.m.
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when they're open uh I can order from that menu as well and certainly on Silver SE what you do is you have your
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cabin student you have your butler everybody has that no matter which cabin you've got and your butler is the one that does that sort of uh that that sort
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of that sort of that sort of service um Steve this is one of those um
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almost impossible questions to answer which is um what would you choose Cod
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grills or Seaborn appreciate the different things um it I would a lot of it hinges around
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what sort of experience that you want to create so if you got a special occasion
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and you want to have a real sense of occasion for example you might say well what I'm going to do is I'm going to go
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on a transatlantic Queen Mary 2 Cruise in Queen's Grill because that is such a
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significant Journey also what's going to happen is being a transatlantic there's going to be much more dressing up so
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chance to get into glamorous gowns and Tuxedos and Bow Ties and all ship's
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going to transform most Knights into that's very kind of glamorous thing so and there's a real sense of occasion you
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know sending from Southampton into New York or living in New York and whatever so that that to me would feel like a
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sense of occasion so for example on for my honeymoon um we did a transatlantic
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and it did feel like a sense of occasion um so that was good you know obviously Seaborn uh it's you know it's a great
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experience it's going to be pampering it's not as smart it's not as formal it won't feel as as big an occasion uh as
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such so depend around what you want if you don't want all the dressing up and nonsense then I would avoid that the
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great thing about the grills is you know the Grill's experience is really about the dining experience so you are going to be able to order off menu and you're
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going to be able to do the little flambay stuff by the side of the table you're going to have caviar if you want
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every night you can do that on Seaborn as well um so so I think you know if you were doing something like a big what you
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find for example that trans antic Queen Mary 2 is packed full of people having
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significant birthdays anniversaries because of that real kind of sense uh that that massive sense of of occasion
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um as as it were so um that would be that would be my thought so let me just
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make sure that I if I've missed any comments if you got any any more questions pop those in um so we
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will uh water landing I've got that photo lab
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I've got that I just want to make sure that in the flow of things I haven't missed
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anything uhum so let's just check and then I will
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run through what's happening here before we wrap up uh
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okay here we go Steve asked the question so Steve has a here we go Beth
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um has a a more general question um what microphone do use with your insta 360
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you inspired me to get that camera and start recording my hikes on austral Alaska with the hope of starting YouTube channel I catch very excited that you
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plan to do a YouTube channel so I personally do not use a microphone at all with my insta 360 um now I know Mark
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for example does use mic and he's built um I think he a road mic and he's built
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a a little rig to go with that so he's attached to road so it lines up with the
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um with invisible selfie stick so that the microphone disappears and then he has similar to what I've got here is like a
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been a little clipon kind of mics but I don't use the inser 360 uh to do any
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audio what I do use in fact I will go and fetch it I'll go and fetch
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it what you might want to consider though Beth which you might find even
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easier um is this which is the DJ DJI
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osmo pocket three so this is it has a gimbal on it um and you have relatively
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decent sized screen there um and what it comes with is it comes with a mic like
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this this is actually not from this it's from another setup that I've got but it's basically a mic like this um and it
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has little wind socket you can put on it's got a phenomenal sound uh good wind
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reduction so I started recording a bit of a vlog very and I've listened to back you you can't really hear the wind at
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all um but this is very it's small it's easy it has a gimbal so if you're doing hikes you like to get some of the
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movement out quality is phenomenal it's like shoots in 4k uh the audio stuff is
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brilliant um and uh you know you're not going to get the 360 effects and stuff
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like that so I use a 360 more sort of for b-roll stuff it requires a bit more editing because once you got the 360
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footage you have to then edit it depending on what shots you want do you want the shot of the there want the sh
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of you do you want swirling up round so you have much more stuff but I would say if you're stting a YouTube channel I
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would absolutely look at the DJI 360 if you're ordering it order the um the the
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combo pack I think it's called a Crea a combo pack because you get things like so you get the extra um Power uh you get
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this little um tripod and you get that mic um and a
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little case which goes as well but that that for me I I shoot most of my stuff on the DJI pocket three um on this trip
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I've got a another camera which has a really what it's very good at low light it's it's pretty rubbish at Zoom uh
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zooming in so and actually if You' seen any of my pictures um that I posted on social and and also to the patron stuff
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is I've used a more traditional camera it's quite a small camera which has a really good zoom for some of those penguin ET shots but that's what I would
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recommend Beth um it's easy to use incredible quality it's just fantastic
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it's it's amazing um and that so it's the DJI osmo pocket 3 so for example
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Mark I know uses that uses that as well a couple other people on this trip are using it you know when you're on the
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like I've been coming back literally I've been on the Zodiac and we've been doing this literally bouncing back and
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when you look at the footage of uh the ship it's it's completely smooth you know when you're walking you'll get a
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little bit of balance you need to practice that but literally it R Ian it's incredible like when I was coming
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back from in Stanley on the Zodiac it was very bouncy beautiful the images are
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just fantastic so um that's what I would recommend um I should probably look in
49:09
here with my affiliate code since I've just done a big promo on that I might have to put a a contains PID promotion
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that setting um someone's asked me again a question around uh Ambassador um so I
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haven't been on them they they they sell a lot out of the UK I think they've do some n other the UK they very good value
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most people go them like them uh you know they're a little bit divisive um
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seen a few people who haven't liked them but overall people like them but they are very good value uh value very
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convenient s up places like tillbury and stuff Susan enjoying the patreon post which is great um thank you very much um
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good so Beth likes that so wonder how you got the great Zoom the P I'm going to show you since we're doing a
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hold on a second I'm G to do since I'm doing a camera I put it somewhere where I put it here we go um so this is this
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is the camera that I use um so as you can see it's again very small it's a it's a Sony
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RX100 five and it's it's a camera I've used I had different permutations of
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they actually sort of discontinu but you can still buy this one and it it is phenomenally good and I just use this
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little gorilla pod now because of the risk of Avan flu we're not allowed to kneel down or sit anymore but the
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advantage of this still is it get comes down to the heights of penguins comes down to the height of the warus is down
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to the height of the seals and you can still use it by sort of leaning over has
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really really really good um Zoom so I use that a lot of the video and stuff
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it's I used this when I was on um when I was the Pont trip um and I used it uh
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when I was in galapagus: fantastic these are it's quite an expensive camera um so so
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that's that that's a good backup for the for the for the DJI you you know on a trip like this you can't just get away
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with that because you need some Zoom stuff I've also brought my big uh camera
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which is more for whales so when when because whales are will be quite a far away so you need your big Zoom kind of
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your big Zoom uh uh lens on on that uh on that one
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um so have you looked into the emperor penguin snowhill Island Expedition qu I
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haven't I I've sort of had a look at this so so what what all the Antartica trips I've done have been kind of from
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the north down so like one under Mont Vio because it was to a I did to sh we
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doing P Williams to pter Williams but there are others uh because the emperor penguins are down the bottom part of
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Antarctica so there are trips that go out of Cape Town And there are trips that go out of uh I think New Zealand as
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well I I I'd said this was probably going to be my last anoa trip but now I really want to go and do that one so I
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have actually started looking at those there was a silvery one there was a quark one and I feel like there might
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have been a pant one I think um Pont to maybe with commant shako so uh I I might
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have spoken myself into doing another Antarctica I would like to do that southern Wing because the emper I have
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seen an imp penguin once in the distance because they tend to stay down the South but when we was on Pont um we we were in
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um Paradise Bay I think it was when we did push into the ice and they spotted an emperor penguin like one solar emper
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penguin is very unusual because this part we will see more we saw a chin we saw a rock uper Penguins uh which were
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in the Forkland uh we we will see King Penguins uh we and then once we hit the
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peninsula we will see um chinstrap penguins and genu penguins but Emperors
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are the big the big ones I think King are the second biggest think Emperor or the biggest so yeah it's a long way of
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saying um I have been I haven't looked into detail but I've started uh started having having look um SL asking the
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question uh why pass railw carriages they do have some accessible carriages so they do have um some uh they do have
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some uh platforms and things uh so they do allocate that you do obviously need to let them know in advance but they do
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have some accessible carriages uh with you lifts and things that they can get on
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Ronda I'll ask my question again next time so ronda's asked a question Miss ronda's
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question I didn't see your question Ronda have I missed your question if you
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ask it again quickly I will definitely catch I didn't see your question let me have a quick squid through I thought I'd
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missed so if you Rond if you want to ask your question again if I can't see it in the flow I
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will definitely answer that um let's have a look I can't see your
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question Ronda unless you're saying that you're going to wait till next time because I will try and do another one I
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can't remember we on a week's time I'll try and do another one of these while we're down because obviously we to talk about more of the experiences and so on
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so Rond I can't see your question there um there was another question around
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dick asking me if I'm using gig sky so for those who don't know this video that
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came out yesterday today um I spoke about the different resources that I use and how um one of the things I've
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started using is an eim so I used an eim I have a very good roaming program
54:38
from the UK which covers about 74 countries but some of the cruising places some cover like um the so that's
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included with my minutes so I don't have to pay any extra when I'm roaming for for calls or data um but some Caribbean
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countries doesn't Canada doesn't uh and and there's few like it covered um Chile
55:00
but didn't cover Argentina a few bits and pieces like that so I used started playing around with I used to use aola
55:06
then I moved to Gig guy and gigy was quite interesting because they also have an arrangement with the cruise lines so
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uh quite a long list of cruise lines so it also works when you're on the ship so normally you don't want to you want to
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be on um you know you don't want your phone ever to connect they use the cellul C and they also use some Starling
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stuff so I used it a lot on my Canadian trip because I want to test it out and I
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have downloaded it actually uh some more credit to try it out when I'm an anarctica so I wanted to get right down
55:35
into Antarctica so I will be testing it out I didn't need it when I was in Chile um because it was kind of covered so I
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will be trying that I need to figure out I can't figure out yet which are the packages I need to buy because they they
55:47
different cover it so they're doing it I so maybe I've got the wrong maybe I've got the wrong part of where they're
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heading for cting at no 25 okay um so
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maybe it's the wrong the wrong the wrong thing so let's have a look so I think I
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have again very I've managed to get through all of the questions I'll probably uh kind of wrap up here so
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what's happening now just to let you know is we are uh there's another question coming um so which I will
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answer but let me let me tell you what's going to happen so we now going to be we arrived today early in south Georgia so
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we du to be in south Georgia for the next couple of days I think it's three days we we do to be here so we're going to be doing different Landing so when I
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was here on P we did the same thing hopefully we'll get into sorcery play because that is absolutely magnificent
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um and we call various different places this is where you see the big Mega colonies uh penguin colonies you know
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the one as I mentioned on S plan think it's about 450 400,000 nesting pairs uh
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it's breeding uh time for the empress um seals uh where you've got they have harm
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so the male has basically 40 or 50 females which during the course of the Season he um he will uh basically mate
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with and find all the other other ones then there's fur seals here and and so on so um we see a lot of see a lot of
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that and there's various other colonies along the way here also very importantly we go to gvin which is the old wailing
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station where shackleton's grave is um so that's very interesting as well I'm really looking forward to go to that
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also there's a chance uh which they mentioned we will should also be able to do is um when we no that's Elephant Island
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sorry I'm getting distracted to Elephant Island uh no sorry it was in South joria so what happened is Shackleton when he
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left his part of his crew on Elephant Island which was going to he eventually got to South Georgia but they landed on
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the wrong side of the the island to where the wding stations were um because the wding stations were this side of the
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island sort of more sheltered and they had to basically climb over this 20 miles of treacherous landscape which I
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showed you earlier um and there's the last section of walk to the Wailing
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station is the ship will drop you off in in the morning or the at lunchtime and you can actually walk that last stretch
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that Shackleton and the two U there was only one two of them uh that they went
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where they left when they hit South they left some of the people there they climbed over to the Wailing station to
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then try and get help to go and fetch the people they left on the other side of the South Geor to go to El Island to pick up the 22 guys that they left there
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so you can actually do that walk so we're going to be doing some of those that sort of stuff
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um uh Linea asking me have you ordered the iten with the cruise yes I have got it in the system uh so those don't know
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the cruise Maps um those I think I've shown them a couple times fact this week's video has got a little PR on them so yes very excited to be able to add
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that one in um so for those who don't know the cruise maps that you s out tracking data and you can buy them as a
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full size or you can order them framed but yes absolutely I have so really
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important Jeff is only gig Sky works on ships so the others Aela which I used to
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use doesn't So currently the only eim that has contracts with Cel Sea and the
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cruise lines is gig Sky um so uh M Dave asking have you
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export Atlas Cru for anartica or Polo Cru they seem to have a decent value I I personally haven't yet I am keeping an
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eye on them I do want to try Atlas a couple of people I know have been on Atlas they time as you said they're sign
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uh they're quite a new line they been going a couple of years sort they sort of started just post pandemic as it were
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um and people seem pretty pleased with them so um friends of mine have been and they they have um they they definitely
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enjoy them but I haven't yet looked at those so hopefully Lou you will be able to convince your wife to do Antarctica
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that would be fantastic right so I'm gon to end wrap here because I need to also go there's a lecture about South Georgia
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that I want to go to shortly thanks for joining me hopefully the Wi-Fi was not too to bad looking at it's a little bit blotchy at times on the tracking I've
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done I will try and do another live stream so keep an eye out for that timing will depend on where we're going to be and excursions so have a great
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time and um I will have a great time hopefully in south Georgia and pray for
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me or keep your fingers crossed whatever your beliefs are that I do actually make it into sorcy plan I really really want to see that take care bye
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