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12th December 2012, 11:13 PM
#11
But Rob, they have less overheads. You pay your £12, study their course for a couple of hours or not sitting in your front room at your computer. You then do the test, again sitting in your front room at your computer. It doesn't matter if you don't know the answers you just look in a book. Failing that you just get someone else to do the test for you. You get a certificate, they make £12. What's not to like apart from the people that end up with food poisoning?
Regards
Calvin
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13th December 2012, 12:55 AM
#12
all these certificates look good, but enforcing there rules not easy with lax personell,
Tony Wilding
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13th December 2012, 05:06 AM
#13
With modern cruiae ships they call at more ports than the old liners did. Bloods go ashore eat and drink all manner of crap without knowing what it is then come back aboard and begin to spread all manner of bugs. we have hada fair number of ships effected here in Oz, one was stuck in Brisbane for a week or more. Funny thing is most of the problems here have been with P&O.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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13th December 2012, 09:05 AM
#14
That is right John
I was on QM2 and a party of twenty bloods went ashore on a tour in Panama the following day all 20 were down vomiting and the rest. They were complaining about the ship. They were the only ones infected so it was the crap they ate in the jungle.
Cheers
Brian.
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13th December 2012, 09:14 AM
#15
I have eaten some odd things over the last four decades , we had normal food at home , Cow Heel , Pigs Trotters , various glands of sheep and lambs , but never nothing foreign , nothing curries , nothing mucked about with , but when i went ashore , I looked where the locals ate , when a cafe or bar had a sign outside that said "We Speak Engrish " I walked by . i have toured the back roads of Greece for years , and the tourist tavernas are lethal , the roast beef gravy and chips positively poisonous , why , well the locals eat in Greek owned cafes , and they will inspect the kitchens for hygiene . The tourist places are leased to English people out to make their fortune , and they employ anyone , it is their standards that is invariably the worst .
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 )
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14th December 2012, 05:57 AM
#16
So very true, stay away from the recognised tourist areas and go back a few streets to where the locals go. cheaper and far better than anything produced for the tourist market.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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14th December 2012, 10:58 AM
#17
Two months ago i was in a pub in Devon at lunch time with the intention of eating. Some women were at the bar ordering drinks, before going to their table, the barman had poured their drinks, and as he popped ice into one womens drink she said, no ice please, with that he put two fingers into her drink and pulled the ice out!!!!, whats more she accepted it. I looked at my wife who was equally gob smacked, needless to say we did not eat there. KT
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14th December 2012, 02:33 PM
#18
Cruise Ships and vomiting bug
I found the following on NEWS.COM.AU this morning, couldn't find anything on BBC website, although my wife heard it on the news headlines:
England’s Channel 4 is reporting that at least 374 passengers and crew succumbed to norovirus – a winter vomiting bug on board Oriana.
The cruise ship with 2644 passengers on board set sail from Southampton bound for Europe’s Christmas markets on December 4.
A code red was called on December 5 meaning passengers faced restricted facilities, cancelled events and at times restriction to cabins.
More than a week later, the virus is still raging.
P&O claims there are only nine confirmed cases of the virus on board the liner and that enhanced sanitation protocols had been employed.
I wonder who is telling the truth??
Last edited by Russ Kennedy; 14th December 2012 at 02:34 PM.
Reason: spelling
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14th December 2012, 06:55 PM
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