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#3395714 20-Jul-2025 18:07

Congratulations @eracode! That is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing. I started seeing the world about 60 years ago but I missed out on the seafaring experience. Very jealous.

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#3395715 20-Jul-2025 18:44

Rikkitic:

Congratulations @eracode! That is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing. I started seeing the world about 60 years ago but I missed out on the seafaring experience. Very jealous.

Looking back it sounds extravagant but we went by ship because it was cheap. Jumbo long-haul was just starting to be commonplace but was still expensive.

Our fare for a four-berth lower deck cabin (me, mate, two random guys) was NZD502 each. That was for the seven weeks, all meals, unlimited free wine with lunch and dinner. ChatGPT tells me $502 in 1975 is equivalent to about $6,000 today - still cheap considering what we got.

We stopped in Suva, Papeete, Acapulco, through the Panama Canal, Colon, Curaçao, Lisbon, Malaga, Malta, Messina and got off in Naples. The ship - still carrying my newfound friend - terminated in Genoa. The fare included a two-week rail pass to get us from Naples to London - our ultimate destination. Reunited with the new friend there.

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#3395728 20-Jul-2025 20:42

It's a great story, congratulations.

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#3395769 21-Jul-2025 09:02

I'm home for a couple of weeks. Feeling like I've been run over but it was a decent flight given I was travelling for 22 hours.

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#3395902 21-Jul-2025 15:01

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Rikkitic:

Congratulations @eracode! That is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing. I started seeing the world about 60 years ago but I missed out on the seafaring experience. Very jealous.

Looking back it sounds extravagant but we went by ship because it was cheap. Jumbo long-haul was just starting to be commonplace but was still expensive.

Our fare for a four-berth lower deck cabin (me, mate, two random guys) was NZD502 each. That was for the seven weeks, all meals, unlimited free wine with lunch and dinner. ChatGPT tells me $502 in 1975 is equivalent to about $6,000 today - still cheap considering what we got.

We stopped in Suva, Papeete, Acapulco, through the Panama Canal, Colon, Curaçao, Lisbon, Malaga, Malta, Messina and got off in Naples. The ship - still carrying my newfound friend - terminated in Genoa. The fare included a two-week rail pass to get us from Naples to London - our ultimate destination. Reunited with the new friend there.

Congratulations @eracode. Reminded me a bit of our story in the days of innocence. We parted ways for various reasons and I decided to leave for Europe to forget. The travel agent who was a wise old fellow and knew us both, unbeknown to me told Mr E I had booked. When I boarded the ship with my relatives, there he was accompanied by his relatives who came on board to see him off. Those days visitors could go on board.

A month of travel to get to Europe it was mutually decided we would get married and here we are. Amazing trip also through Panama Canal in the days where dress code was formal every night for dinner and meals were often with the captain and officers in uniform.

No such thing as a buffet, all silver service. Quite a different and more casual sea experience now. I still possess the key to my cabin with the number 363 engraved on it…we had separate cabins of course, he was with two males and I was with one female on another deck. Nostalgia that has me smiling.

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#3395905 21-Jul-2025 15:14

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Congratulations @eracode. Reminded me a bit of our story in the days of innocence. We parted ways for various reasons and I decided to leave for Europe to forget. The travel agent who was a wise old fellow and knew us both, unbeknown to me told Mr E I had booked. When I boarded the ship with my relatives, there he was accompanied by his relatives who came on board to see him off. Those days visitors could go on board.

A month of travel to get to Europe it was mutually decided we would get married and here we are. Amazing trip also through Panama Canal in the days where dress code was formal every night for dinner and meals were often with the captain and officers in uniform.

No such thing as a buffet, all silver service. Quite a different and more casual sea experience now. I still possess the key to my cabin with the number 363 engraved on it…we had separate cabins of course, he was with two males and I was with one female on another deck. Nostalgia that has me smiling.

A few people here have congratulated me on our story (which surprised me because I don't see it as exceptional)

However, your story really is exceptional - I just love it. Beautiful - it would make a great movie or TV series.

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#3397194 25-Jul-2025 21:51

who is cutting onions in here???

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#3397197 25-Jul-2025 22:11

Been playing with an ESP8266 and a small OLED display. ChatGPT was quite willing and able to demo using an API to pull interface stats from my router and graph it. Seeing the result of what is essentially a computer programming another computer boggles my mind.

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#3398215 30-Jul-2025 10:22

@eracode

Looking back it probably would make a good Hallmark miniseries. A couple of the older officers on the ship took me under their wing and were very protective. My wide eyed naivety would have been screamingly obvious to them and they would often talk to me on deck and give advice. Especially one First Engineer who was like a dad with a shotgun towards Mr E who was 7 years older. He was constantly advised to take good care of me, quietly missing were the words 'or else.'

Definitely Hallmark material is this one memory that has forever stuck in my mind. The cabin steward named Gavriel. (Impressive to remember his name when my current nieces one escapes me). He was always extremely polite and quite shy, hardly ever spoke. On the last day when we arrived in port, he was standing outside my cabin and when I said goodbye, he burst into tears, he was sobbing uncontrollably and hugged me. It rattled and shocked me so much. Clearly unrequited love. I have never forgotten his pained expression and green eyes. As they say, you always remember how someone made you feel.

OK apologies and have to stop waffling. Back to what I was originally coming to post because low used storage makes one smile and very happy.

A pop up window appeared in Yahoo this morning as follows;

Starting today, Yahoo Mail includes 20 GB of free storage.

Your mailbox isn't full yet, but if you run low on space you can add storage or free up space.

600.4 MB of 20 GB used.

(I have no idea how this number was achieved. The storage Gods have either had a bad math day or are extremely kind. My teetering at capacity Gmail was not bestowed a similar blessing).

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#3398217 30-Jul-2025 10:40

@Eva888 The story just gets better. How about a new episode each week? 😀 - I’m joking but it is a lovely story. Write a book.

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#3398638 31-Jul-2025 09:44

The reaction to the effort I put in for a second date.

I turned my dining area into a mini restaurant; created a full menu (food + drinks), took her to her seat, had lamps and music on, and pretended to be the waiter and the date 😅

She kept doing lil excited stomps and took the menu I created home with her 😄

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(the sigara borek were delicious FYI)

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#3398645 31-Jul-2025 09:56

Wakrak:

The reaction to the effort I put in for a second date.

I turned my dining area into a mini restaurant; created a full menu (food + drinks), took her to her seat, had lamps and music on, and pretended to be the waiter and the date 😅

She kept doing lil exited stomps and took the menu I created home with her 😄

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/72e49f8f23c32929b1e9d0a32265bcd9.jpg

(the sigara borek were delicious FYI)

That made me smile. Awesome effort. :-)

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#3398646 31-Jul-2025 10:01

Wakrak:

The reaction to the effort I put in for a second date.

I turned my dining area into a mini restaurant; created a full menu (food + drinks), took her to her seat, had lamps and music on, and pretended to be the waiter and the date 😅

She kept doing lil exited stomps and took the menu I created home with her 😄

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/72e49f8f23c32929b1e9d0a32265bcd9.jpg

(the sigara borek were delicious FYI)

Good for you! Keep us posted on your success.

Food for the minds eye and the stand out menu item was the budgie smugglers :)

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#3398656 31-Jul-2025 10:39

Wakrak:

The reaction to the effort I put in for a second date.

Good work.

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