Post by cleefarqhuar on May 20, 2014 19:55:24 GMT
Been away
Cruising
No the poofdah-type cruising,but sea-cruising- y'know ships and sea and lots of food and all that
Caribbean- not for me really, full of chip-on-shoulder black men wanting to go to England to collect their overdue benefits that is their right mon 'cause they was slaves man, and whitey owes them for that. They do have a point in fact-we visited an estate in some poxy Caribbean Island that was owned by - wait for ir - the Cameron family who made a fortune from the abolition of slavery because they had many slaves and were lavishly 'compensated' for their losses when their slaves were freed.
Naturally the freed slave got bugger all 'cos they was black and undeserving
Bugger Wilberforce and the self-righteous emancipators - they was theorists that gave not a shxt for the dire plight of the freed slaves, many of whom were far worse off when freed than when enslaved
The gross whitey estate owners imported cheap indentured labour from India to take their place ( the reason that Trinidad has an Asian majority now)
So that is the Caribbean - poor and begrudging ( they do not know of course, that the lot of the British 'working class' in England at that time was little better than slavery. But who gives two F***s about the British working class abandoned by all UK political parties that have discovered that 'racism' ha s a bigger political payback than concern for the English poor
One striking feature of the Caribbean is the French Caribbean. Rich, prosperous, just like a province of France (which is exactly what they are). The Froggy islands never got independence, and being a part of France, EU money is pipelined in, and does it show in comparison to other 'independent' islands!
The one and only time have I seen the benefits of the EU!
Then across the Atlantic to the Cape Verde islands. Forsaken by God and the foolish triumphalism of their 'heroes' of independence from Portugal that guaranteed only an abandoned destitution - if only they had clung on t that most backward of European States, Portugal, they would have been modern and rich like Martinique in the West Indies or Portuguese Madeira
Then onward to the Canaries (named not after the bird, but the dog)
OK - Spanish so lots of EU money pumped in
Madeira - lovely,Portuguese and EU -rich
Casablanca - a veritable sh*t hole to be avoided wherever possible
Cadiz - beautiful - how lovely these Spanish cities
Santiago de Compastella pilgrims actually walk hundreds of mile to get there. Sewell that delightfully debauched but caustically penetrating critic did a most moving programme on the pilgrimage
Then the Bay of Biscay
Enormous seas 40 ft waves. Terribly impressive
I was sitting in the lounge when a particularly large wave hit us
Furniture was thrown all over the place
My armchair was thrown over backwards and I was catapulted into the wall, head leading, Very dramatic. lots of blood. Required two stitches.
Very pretty Ukranian doctor admininstered to me -well worth the bang!
Them Portsmouth and home
How are my friends, Marchesa, Aqua, Nick , Jonjel and all the others worth more than ten Caribbean cruises each ?
Peter
Cruising
No the poofdah-type cruising,but sea-cruising- y'know ships and sea and lots of food and all that
Caribbean- not for me really, full of chip-on-shoulder black men wanting to go to England to collect their overdue benefits that is their right mon 'cause they was slaves man, and whitey owes them for that. They do have a point in fact-we visited an estate in some poxy Caribbean Island that was owned by - wait for ir - the Cameron family who made a fortune from the abolition of slavery because they had many slaves and were lavishly 'compensated' for their losses when their slaves were freed.
Naturally the freed slave got bugger all 'cos they was black and undeserving
Bugger Wilberforce and the self-righteous emancipators - they was theorists that gave not a shxt for the dire plight of the freed slaves, many of whom were far worse off when freed than when enslaved
The gross whitey estate owners imported cheap indentured labour from India to take their place ( the reason that Trinidad has an Asian majority now)
So that is the Caribbean - poor and begrudging ( they do not know of course, that the lot of the British 'working class' in England at that time was little better than slavery. But who gives two F***s about the British working class abandoned by all UK political parties that have discovered that 'racism' ha s a bigger political payback than concern for the English poor
One striking feature of the Caribbean is the French Caribbean. Rich, prosperous, just like a province of France (which is exactly what they are). The Froggy islands never got independence, and being a part of France, EU money is pipelined in, and does it show in comparison to other 'independent' islands!
The one and only time have I seen the benefits of the EU!
Then across the Atlantic to the Cape Verde islands. Forsaken by God and the foolish triumphalism of their 'heroes' of independence from Portugal that guaranteed only an abandoned destitution - if only they had clung on t that most backward of European States, Portugal, they would have been modern and rich like Martinique in the West Indies or Portuguese Madeira
Then onward to the Canaries (named not after the bird, but the dog)
OK - Spanish so lots of EU money pumped in
Madeira - lovely,Portuguese and EU -rich
Casablanca - a veritable sh*t hole to be avoided wherever possible
Cadiz - beautiful - how lovely these Spanish cities
Santiago de Compastella pilgrims actually walk hundreds of mile to get there. Sewell that delightfully debauched but caustically penetrating critic did a most moving programme on the pilgrimage
Then the Bay of Biscay
Enormous seas 40 ft waves. Terribly impressive
I was sitting in the lounge when a particularly large wave hit us
Furniture was thrown all over the place
My armchair was thrown over backwards and I was catapulted into the wall, head leading, Very dramatic. lots of blood. Required two stitches.
Very pretty Ukranian doctor admininstered to me -well worth the bang!
Them Portsmouth and home
How are my friends, Marchesa, Aqua, Nick , Jonjel and all the others worth more than ten Caribbean cruises each ?
Peter
