Post script to Coron

The arrival was enlivened by the band and dance performance put on by about 70 school children. The playing, dancing and marching were good but they were mostly occupied with looking at the Silver Shadow and its passengers.

The sail away was spectacular. Diva’s gold standard for scenery tends to be the Norwegian fjords and this was in that class. Lots of open water surrounded by hilly apparently almost uninhabited islands. There was a discussion on the ship about whether improving the living conditions of local people would ruin the scenery. A woman from the US thought that people are quite happy as they are. But Diva does not like squalor or lack of electricity and sanitation and thinks that the infrastructure could be improved sensitively. Think Norway again.