Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[lenquixote66]

56 minutes ago, mets07 said:

@lenquixote66 We are watching Homicide New York. Thanks for mentioning it. My father was a NYPD homicide squad commander (many moons ago) in the Bronx, so it strikes home. 

The reason I watched it was because a good friend of mine was a Sgt.in Manhattan South for many years and I was curious to see if he was mentioned.He was not.I had 7 friends who were with the NYPD .They were in Brooklyn ,Queens and Manhattan. Currently a very close friend of one of my son in laws is a LT.with the Port Authority Police Dept.

[firefly333]

4 minutes ago, FromSea2ShiningSea said:

Day 2.  So after checking out of the hotel yesterday, we headed out to the Osaka Station to find the platform where our Nozomi - Japan’s super fastest bullet train will take us to Hiroshima.  We got reserved seats for the 9:02AM train so we had to make sure we get on the right car.  It’s 200 miles to Hiroshima and it took less than 1 1/2 hours from the Osaka Station to get to the Hiroshima Station (It was still rainy).  From there, we took a local train to get to the JR Miyajima Ferry to take us over to Miyajima.  The clouds were started to lift by now and we could see glimpse of blue sky.  
 

The ferry that ferried us over to Miyajima.  The O-Torii Gate is to the left of the picture.

 

The O-Torii Gate from the ferry 

Made it to Miyajima.  We strolled through the town where many vendors are.  It was very packed with tourists.

 

Oysters is the popular food here because it is farmed here.

 

 

This was at near low tide at 3:15.  People started walking out to the gate.

 

 

Afterwards, we checked into our hotel- Miyajima Seaside Hotel.  Welcome to our humble abode

 

Looking out 

 

The view from our room window 

Our dinner at the hotel 

During your dinner, your room is set up for bedtime.

Those oysters near the front in the shell look huge. Did you try some? How do food prices compare to here? Can you tell or with everything in japanese it's hard to figure out? Sleeping on the floor shhhh. I hope your back is ready for this. It's pretty. 

[taznremmy]

13 minutes ago, firefly333 said:

 Sleeping on the floor shhhh. I hope your back is ready for this. It's pretty. 

LOL!!  My first thought was trying to get out of bed in the morning. 🙀 😂

[Jimbo]

😎

[Sunshine3601]

3 minutes ago, taznremmy said:

LOL!!  My first thought was trying to get out of bed in the morning. 🙀 😂

Same here.  I thought to myself Eric being 6'3"  would definitely have problems.

[Sunshine3601]

26 minutes ago, FromSea2ShiningSea said:

Day 2.  So after checking out of the hotel yesterday, we headed out to the Osaka Station to find the platform where our Nozomi - Japan’s super fastest bullet train will take us to Hiroshima.  We got reserved seats for the 9:02AM train so we had to make sure we get on the right car.  It’s 200 miles to Hiroshima and it took less than 1 1/2 hours from the Osaka Station to get to the Hiroshima Station (It was still rainy).  From there, we took a local train to get to the JR Miyajima Ferry to take us over to Miyajima.  The clouds were started to lift by now and we could see glimpse of blue sky.  
 

The ferry that ferried us over to Miyajima.  The O-Torii Gate is to the left of the picture.

 

The O-Torii Gate from the ferry 

Made it to Miyajima.  We strolled through the town where many vendors are.  It was very packed with tourists.

 

Oysters is the popular food here because it is farmed here.

 

 

This was at near low tide at 3:15.  People started walking out to the gate.

 

 

Afterwards, we checked into our hotel- Miyajima Seaside Hotel.  Welcome to our humble abode

 

Looking out 

 

The view from our room window 

Our dinner at the hotel 

During your dinner, your room is set up for bedtime.

Beautiful photos.   Thank you for sharing😊

[taznremmy]

@Jimbo  Welcome back.

[Ocean Boy]

6 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

😎

Welcome back.... again.🙂

[Sunshine3601]

7 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

😎

Hi!!  What's new?

[Jimbo]

Not much, Just trying to lay low....................those low beds above in a earlier post may come in handy!

[Sea Dog]

35 minutes ago, FromSea2ShiningSea said:

Oysters is the popular food here because it is farmed here.

You had me at the picture of the deep fried oysters. Loving the pictures. 

[HBE4]

14 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

😎

 

Welcome back.

 

Stop dancing in the minefields. 😃

[h20skibum]

1 hour ago, aussielozzie18 said:

DH wants to do a brand new 20km bushwalk that has just opened up in the Blue Mountains.  I read the link he sent me,  where it is suggested you do the walk in two stages with an overnight in beautiful Leura which sounds ideal.  Nope, DH wants to do the full 20km walk in one day.  Me “but I need to go slow for photos!” plus I love Leura…I’ll have to convince him.

That is pretty ambitious for a day hike, especially over uneven terrain.  I would spend a couple days, enjoying the scenery along the way, rather than rushing to finish in a day.  
 

 

[Keksie]

1 hour ago, mafig said:

Mine is 33 days and still no cruise docs or luggage tags.

Is this normal?

All I can get so far are the set sail passes.  Maybe at 30 days out the rest will show up.

[mafig]

1 minute ago, Keksie said:

All I can get so far are the set sail passes.  Maybe at 30 days out the rest will show up.

Me, too.  

[George C]

59 minutes ago, FromSea2ShiningSea said:

Day 2.  So after checking out of the hotel yesterday, we headed out to the Osaka Station to find the platform where our Nozomi - Japan’s super fastest bullet train will take us to Hiroshima.  We got reserved seats for the 9:02AM train so we had to make sure we get on the right car.  It’s 200 miles to Hiroshima and it took less than 1 1/2 hours from the Osaka Station to get to the Hiroshima Station (It was still rainy).  From there, we took a local train to get to the JR Miyajima Ferry to take us over to Miyajima.  The clouds were started to lift by now and we could see glimpse of blue sky.  
 

The ferry that ferried us over to Miyajima.  The O-Torii Gate is to the left of the picture.

 

The O-Torii Gate from the ferry 

Made it to Miyajima.  We strolled through the town where many vendors are.  It was very packed with tourists.

 

Oysters is the popular food here because it is farmed here.

 

 

This was at near low tide at 3:15.  People started walking out to the gate.

 

 

Afterwards, we checked into our hotel- Miyajima Seaside Hotel.  Welcome to our humble abode

 

Looking out 

 

The view from our room window 

Our dinner at the hotel 

During your dinner, your room is set up for bedtime.

Great pictures , this reminded me to watch. Next episode of shogun 😁, how was your flight ?

[aussielozzie18]

20 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

That is pretty ambitious for a day hike, especially over uneven terrain.  I would spend a couple days, enjoying the scenery along the way, rather than rushing to finish in a day.  
 

 

True but It’s because he wants to do an specific overnight hike next year that is a solid 20km each day (you can’t split it) and he wants to see if it’s do-able.

[akcruz]

1 hour ago, FromSea2ShiningSea said:

Day 2.  So after checking out of the hotel yesterday, we headed out to the Osaka Station to find the platform where our Nozomi - Japan’s super fastest bullet train will take us to Hiroshima.  We got reserved seats for the 9:02AM train so we had to make sure we get on the right car.  It’s 200 miles to Hiroshima and it took less than 1 1/2 hours from the Osaka Station to get to the Hiroshima Station (It was still rainy).  From there, we took a local train to get to the JR Miyajima Ferry to take us over to Miyajima.  The clouds were started to lift by now and we could see glimpse of blue sky.  
 

The ferry that ferried us over to Miyajima.  The O-Torii Gate is to the left of the picture.

 

The O-Torii Gate from the ferry 

Made it to Miyajima.  We strolled through the town where many vendors are.  It was very packed with tourists.

 

Oysters is the popular food here because it is farmed here.

 

 

This was at near low tide at 3:15.  People started walking out to the gate.

 

 

Afterwards, we checked into our hotel- Miyajima Seaside Hotel.  Welcome to our humble abode

 

Looking out 

 

The view from our room window 

Our dinner at the hotel 

During your dinner, your room is set up for bedtime.

 

How cool, enjoy your trip.  Thanks for the great pictures.

[BonTexasNY]

@FromSea2ShiningSea Helen and Marty, thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures.  Continue to enjoy.

[Sea Dog]

2 hours ago, FromSea2ShiningSea said:

your room is set up for bedtime.

 

Somehow I think I would have a hard time getting out of bed with my knees. 😉

[firefly333]

They want us to stay home the day of the eclipse. I think schools are closed too.

 

"To avoid gridlock the Dallas Office of Emergency Management encourages employers to treat April 8 like a snow day, with only essential workers heading into the office."

[Sea Dog]

Just got through binging Netflix's The Gentlemen. I thought it was excellent. I always admired Guy Ritchie's work.

 

We then moved onto Netflix's 3 Body Problem which is a sci-fi thriller from the guys that brought you Game of Thrones. I am really liking this one. Deep and some amazing characters.

 

I highly recommend these two.

[Coralc]

1 hour ago, firefly333 said:

They want us to stay home the day of the eclipse. I think schools are closed too.

 

"To avoid gridlock the Dallas Office of Emergency Management encourages employers to treat April 8 like a snow day, with only essential workers heading into the office."

Seriously? 😄 And they say California is weird. LOL. When we had the almost full solar eclipse in 2017, everyone went to work and school, and we just paused our day and went out to look at it for a while. (with eclipse glasses) There was a lot of hype here, too. But it was just a regular day, with an event. 

 

You can get photos, if you take them through the lense of the glasses. And yes, we usually do have fog in August. 

Edited March 27 by Coralc

[Etta1213]

3 hours ago, Jimbo said:

Not much, Just trying to lay low....................those low beds above in a earlier post may come in handy!

You are such a character!😅

[aussielozzie18]

6 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

Just got through binging Netflix's The Gentlemen. I thought it was excellent. I always admired Guy Ritchie's work.

 

We then moved onto Netflix's 3 Body Problem which is a sci-fi thriller from the guys that brought you Game of Thrones. I am really liking this one. Deep and some amazing characters.

 

I highly recommend these two.

Thanks.  3 body problem sounds like a better choice for me than the Lockerbie doco that DH just recommended to me.  Started watching the doco & then decided watching it 2 weeks before a 15hr long haul flight is not a good idea.