he drew the van alongside the ship. As we began to unload the van, a security guard with a sniffer dog came over to check our cargo, all of a sudden I thought “I hope no one has been smoking a crafty joint in the back of the van!” No one had, of course, and we got the all clear to board the ship. A large number of the ship’s crew were


exiting via a large metal gangway down onto the dock, therefore we had to board via a lift in the adjacent building, which gained us access to the 2nd deck, via a walkway that went back and forth umpteen times. Entering the ship meant another round of security checks, but we were there, we were on board at last. All we had to do was find our way to the games area on the 11th deck. I asked an attendant if there was a lift that would take us there, to which they responded, “you’re not taking that in the lift are you?” looking at the equipment as if it were coated in something unspeakable. Admittedly, the paint sprayer did have splodges of dried white paint on it, which could have been


mistaken for the fallout from a pigeon with a bad case of dysentery. “It’s all clean,” I replied, to which the attendant directed us to the nearest lift. Operating the lift should have been simple, press the button for the 11th deck and Bob’s your uncle but, all that would happen, was the doors would open again. It turned out that the 11th and 12th deck buttons were fake in this particular lift, they probably call them ‘faux’ or ‘presentation’ buttons in cruise liner speak, so we opted for the 10th deck which was better than nothing. Inside the 10th deck we wandered into a bar to ask directions; outside, along the deck, and up the stairs, ‘simples’. Walking along deck ten was not for the faint-hearted. It was like looking over the side of a floating tower block. As we climbed the final stairway, the wind blew the mist that was rising around the ship to reveal that we had reached the summit of the 11th deck. By now it was fast approaching 12:30pm. Our schedule had fallen overboard but, unperturbed, we didn’t think of this as a problem, it was a


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