hall of fame

Did you once google yourself? I found some funny notes and travelreports from Navimag passengers who travelled in the pony-guide-era:

17/12/07
„Andrea and her assistant, Lena, were the representatives of Navimag in charge of the passengers.
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The staff, Andrea and Lena, gave a briefing. …After the safety briefing and one or two others, we stopped going to hear her speak. Lena’s language skills were better but, because she was the junior, she wasn’t allowed to do the briefings.“
a critical comment from some triple-AAA-passengers

10/01/08
„Having boarded the Evangelistas, our Navimag vessel, and checked out our surroundings, we headed up on deck. Unfortunately, the weather was still pretty unpleasant, so we went in and got coffees and chatted to three New Zealand girls for a while.

We all had to attend a briefing in the dining room, so we headed down there. The dining room had a very functional canteen/mess hall type appearance. We were given a talk about safety, the route and suchlike by our guides; a miniature Chilean girl called Raphaella and a tall German called Lena.
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The following morning, we were woken by the dulcet tones of Raphaella.
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That evening was our last on the Navimag, so we had our other bottle of wine with dinner, which was a nice piece of salmon, the best meal that we had on board the ship. We decided that we would go and join in with the bingo and party instead of watching the film, so headed up to the bar on the top deck.

Bingo turned out to be quite a terrible affair: numbers were called out in the usual fashion, but anyone successfully getting a line and therefore winning would have to dance before they were allowed to receive their prize. We felt quite lucky not to win.

The Puerto Eden residents who we had picked up earlier in the day seemed to be totally bewildered by the idea of Bingo. Not surprising really, given all of the dancing and stuff.“
Fjord Fiesta

07/02/08
„The daily routine would consist of an 8.00am wake up call for breakfast (which was from 8-9am) from our German guide Lena or the Chilean guide Nicole both in Spanish and English. Following breakfast at 9.30am we would be briefed on the day´s route and activities, then a talk about history/landscape later in the morning in Spanish/English.
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Notably the biggest highlight of the trip was our detour to visit the face of Pio XI glacier (the biggest in South America), truly spectacular, just on sunset on the Wednesday, to come face to face with a glacier on the water.“
the navimag ferry not the love boat

23/02/08
„Besides the Chameleon group there are two other German tour groups as well as dozens of individual German travellers on the boat. The ferry company even decided to employ a German passenger attendant for the summer. „On this trip, one third of the 200 passengers are Germans,“ Lina tells us before going on to explain in German the history of the Cotopaxi shallow.
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From the deck, we watch the Evangelistas running into the harbour of Puerto Natales in the afternoon of the next day. „Dear passengers! Your attention please…“ crackles the loudspeaker. The rest of the announcement is lost in a gush of wind, but it was apparently the signal to disembark: We leave the Evangelistas and hurry to a bus that will bring us even further to the south, towards Tierra del Fuego.“
Westwards from Japan: with the Evangelistas to Pio XI

Witzig, was die Leute sich alles so merken… hi hi 🙂