I LOVE PORT CITIES

[rebness]

I’ve just watched a huge Aida cruise liner leave port from the observation deck of Barcelona’s World Trade Centre. I love how people wave to us from the ships, but the best thing ever was that the ship started blasting out Enya’s Sail Away as it, er, sailed away.

 

So kitsch. So awesome. I must bring my camera in next week! :D 

Comments

[stovetop00.livejournal.com]

When we pulled out from Galveston, TX on the cruise ship, a speed boat drove through our wake and the people waved up at us. What is it about people, on both sides, waving as boats leave? It seems like no other form of mass transit provokes this kind of response. It's one of the few moments where a complete stranger can feel nothing but good things about another complete stranger.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I completely agree! I don't know; it's just such a lovely occasion. I was trying to behave and not wave, but then people started up and I couldn't resist. Out came the crazy hand gestures!

It really made my afternoon. Hee.

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

I wave at the Duckmarine EVERY time.

[ozfille]

Perhaps the waving is a leftover from the age of sail that when people left on a boat for parts distant there was a good chance you would never see them again and that well you should at least acknowledge them while you can.