EVER WANTED TO WALK THE BOARDS? Crystal Cruises has hired the services of a Canadian comedy improvisational group, Vancouver TheatreSports, to get guests involved in impromptu fun whilst cruising on Crystal Symphony’s 2011 Jun-Jul Alaska voyages. As part of the program guests will enjoy being a part of nightly comedy...
EVER WANTED TO WALK THE BOARDS?
Crystal Cruises has hired the services
of a Canadian comedy improvisational
group, Vancouver TheatreSports, to get
guests involved in impromptu fun whilst
cruising on Crystal Symphony’s 2011
Jun-Jul Alaska voyages.
As part of the program guests will
enjoy being a part of nightly comedy
performances, and will also be able to
follow the pied-pipers of fun in
participatory improv workshops.
RIVER CRUISE TO THE REAL MONA LISA.
European river cruise operators may
soon be able to offer excursions to visit
the final resting place of the real Mona
Lisa, after Italian scientists announced
their intention to dig up the remains of
Lisa Gherardini who is believed to be the
model for Da Vinci’s masterpiece.
The wife of a wealthy merchant,
Gherardini was born in 1479, whilst the
recent discovery of a death certificate
revealed she died on 15 Jul 1542, and
was laid to rest in the Convent of St
Ursula in Florence.
Researchers are aiming to begin their
dig in the Convent using radar to search
for hidden tombs, and will match bones
to the age and date of Gherardini when
she died, as well as characteristics that
match known facts about her life.
The scientists will also attempt to
reconstruct her face.
THEY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN A CRUISE!
A newlywed Swedish couple, Stefan
and Erika Svanstrom, have made the
news after their four month honeymoon
saw them endure six natural disasters.
The pair began their ordeal in Munich
in Dec last year where they were
stranded in the snowstorms, before
heading to Australia where they were
caught in the Cairns cyclone, then
Brisbane floods and Perth bushfires.
Following that the pair headed to
Christchurch arriving the day after the
earthquake, and from there visited Tokyo
just in time for the recent earthquake
and tsunami disaster.
The couple have since returned home,
telling press that they could “only laugh”
at their string of successive bad luck.
