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Article: Travel: On a voyage back in time; It's cruising but not as you know it Harvey Elliott sails the Aegean 19th century style.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2005
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Byline: Harvey Elliott
THERE is something about lying on a sun lounger with a drink in hand, watching giant canvas sails being hoisted up tall masts, that is so...
well, different. It's not as if you are personally having to heave on ropes - technically known as sheets - while concentrating on ensuring your small yacht doesn't get blown over in the wind.
Neither is it like being on a big cruise ship with its casinos, countless bars, eating areas and wandering stewards offering trays of iced drinks or snacks to the hundreds - if not thousands - of guests and on which you have no idea that the vessel is even moving until the land begins to slip ...