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Do you remember my last post here?
Ok, since it's been a few weeks, here's a quick recap: Last summer, several hundred cruise ship passengers left their decorum on board when they went ashore in the small Norwegian village of Honningsvag, home to 3,000 souls, and overran the local cemetery during a funeral to film and photograph without restraint. At the time, we weren't the only ones who thought that something like that was simply shameful - in the truest sense of the word ...


Unfortunately, many other ports are like Honningsvag:
More and more cruisers from ever larger ships are overrunning idyllic old town alleyways and local markets and have long since stopped at the locals' front doors, as an annoyed fruit seller on the lagoon island of Burano recently told me.


At least Dubrovnik has now reacted to this:
According to a decision by the city council, from 2019 only two ships with a maximum of 5,000 passengers per day will be allowed to anchor in front of the city. A radical decision that means hectic rerouting for many shipping companies - and perhaps finally a rethink.


It can't be,
that on my last Caribbean cruise, for example, there were three large ships on the same route! Why don't the shipping companies coordinate with each other? Their passengers would benefit from this just as much as the annoyed locals on the islands!



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