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swarm about, as I said before, all the world like Miami Beach.  Al says [[strikethrough]] Al [[/strikethrough]] he's amazed to see so many people with so much money and time to spend on a cruise like this, that really gets nowhere and does nothing.  Its like something the doctor orders to enforce [[strikethrough]] you [[/strikethrough]] a rest upon you.  Except for the fact that you can say you travelled on the Ile de France (for whatever that sounds like to others), a freight trip to more places with more stops should be intellectually more profitable.  Now we here will be in Bridgetown Barbadoes from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Most of the passengers are old people and I mean old – Methuselas male and female compared in look to way I feel.  Maybe I look to them that way too.  No young people except maybe six kids in all around Lindas age.  No really young girls or lady, and no young men, except the bell hops (like grade school kids) and a few of the stewards but they again are French street types all ages sizes and colors, [[underlined]] fat, [[/underlined]] lean, short, tall, wiry and clunky French are human beings that vary as much as any one of our gathering of comparable size.