{"id":424,"date":"2009-02-19T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-02-19T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:10:29","slug":"textile-notes-from-a-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Textile Notes From a Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"norwegian-sun-cruise2\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DH and I have just returned from a cruise – Montevideo to Valparaiso, Chile\u00a0via Puerto Madryn, The Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, through the Beagle Channel, Ushuaia and the Chilean fjords, Chacobuco and Perto Montt.\u00a0 Cruising was a new experience for us and we enjoyed\u00a0much of the huge variety of facilities and entertainments\u00a0on offer in the floating resort hotel; there were about 15 restaurants, a library, casino, several nightclubs, gymnasium, pools and jacuzzis.\u00a0 We attended several informative lectures, some beaut variety shows and dropped a few $$ in the slots and at bingo.\u00a0 We were totally able to resist the constant spending opportunities and specials\u00a0in the duty free\u00a0shops you had to walk through\/past to get from one part of the ship to another, and the constant reminders that if we booked our next cruise while on board we would have another $100 to spend onboard that day…\u00a0\u00a0 We did a couple of excellent shore excursions (penguin rookery from Puerto Madryn and Train at The End of The World out of Ushuaia)\u00a0but at the other ports we explored under our own steam.\u00a0 At such times I always keep my eyes peeled for interesting textiles.\u00a0 I no longer hurtle around looking for fabric shops, though if we do come across one I go in and do a reccy; however\u00a0on this trip we didn’t encounter any in our wanderings.\u00a0 A couple of places there were interesting markets but there we found\u00a0no fine really ususual textiles.\u00a0 Perhaps I am spoiled, the textiles everywhere in Peru were so great and I did bring some nice things back from there\u00a0\ud83d\ude42\u00a0 and\u00a0 several years ago I bought a marvellous wool ruana in Santiago; so anyway this time the textile notes are just these cute little folded towel animals<\/span> that appeared, a new one every day, on the end of our bed after the maid had been in.\u00a0 I never thought to ask her so I don’t know if they were a last minute flourish she\u00a0put together\u00a0after\u00a0making up the room, or whether she brought them in\u00a0pre-folded.\u00a0We didn’t see any\u00a0on the carts we passed in the gangway either.\u00a0\u00a0On one of\u00a0\u00a0the daily events\/ info bulletins there was offered a handicrafts class in napkin folding\u00a0 to attend\u00a0the next day\u00a0(but I couldn’t go – it clashed with bingo) and now I wonder if graduates of that class go on to advanced folded cloth animals….<\/p>\n

Anyway the awesome geology, spectacular scenery, interesting history and culture we experienced\u00a0more than make up for the lack of\u00a0a stunning textile find on this particular trip.\u00a0 I have put up some photos on a non-public album site, but if you are particularly interested you can email me and I will send the link to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DH and I have just returned from a cruise – Montevideo to Valparaiso, Chile\u00a0via Puerto Madryn, The Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, through the Beagle Channel, Ushuaia and the Chilean fjords, Chacobuco and Perto Montt.\u00a0 Cruising was a new experience for us and we enjoyed\u00a0much of the huge variety of facilities and entertainments\u00a0on offer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitsch","category-souvenirs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-6Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}