Bunker Day!

Today was our “bunker day” where we stopped just outside Gibraltar to refuel.  It was very cool! 

We also picked up a few new passengers while in Morocco:  Josh White, Nuala Ni Dhomhnail, and Ayse Iseri.  Josh and Nuala are interport lecturers, and Ayse is an interport student.  Interport peeps get on the ship in one port and sail with us to another one, joining in the shipboard life and, more importantly, offering insights through seminars and presentations along the way.  Josh is an Assistant Professor of History at UVa and has written a book on piracy in the Mediterranean, a timely topic considering our location.  Nuala is an Irish poet who has lived for many years in Turkey.  (On one of the days that I stayed on the ship in Morocco I visited with Nuala in the library for a time.  What a delightful woman!)  And Aysa is a UVa graduate in Media Studies who is from Turkey and who’ll be getting us ready for what to expect when we arrive there.  What a pleasure it is to have these folks on board!