barrydanser's posterous

There is no point in going round the world on a ship (alright just to the med then!)

If you don't find something to do.

Lorraine and I have spent a lot time just sitting on a ship last week (a really nice cruise).
Some of the ports we have been to before and lets face it some of these ports can be incredibly boring.

But some of them like La Rochelle are just amazing. Well we have had an incredible advantage of being involved in a near disaster when my daughter went there a few years ago.
She was given the family from hell with her school (its a long story) and ended up being moved to the family from heaven!

Due to that we probably had a bit of inside knowledge on La Rochelle as we were entertained by the good family a few months later. I don't know exactly why but  I really love the place.

So although Lorraine tried to steer me to a gift shop I managed a correction to my favourite Jazz  and Blues shop. If you don't like 
Jazz they had other  stuff too so don't panic.

The experience was amazing as I spent about 2 hours just listening to stuff and the guy in the shop just let me keep
listening  most of which we rejected!

However, I ended up spending a shed load of money because we just kept getting a lot of help on what we should be looking at. 
This made me very relaxed and I probably spent double the amount I would have done if I had been watched over by
some uninterested person.

 I have been playing my selection here in London for about a week and I have to say I can fault some of the recordings as not my favourite but they are all good and some of the stuff is amazing.

We also had a fantastic meal before we got back on the ship great service again . 

So if you want great service go to La Rochelle. If you want happy clients give great service !

Barry