#16975 - 10/27/06 06:32 PM
Re: Aranui
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Tangata
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Registered: 06/06/06
Posts: 8
Loc: Australia
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Hi Nancie,
I still have to book a place to stay. Mandarin is on the expensive side. If you are familiar with Papeete, tell me where we can have the beer. I will get to the place. Also say the time. Late afternoon would be best.
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#16976 - 10/29/06 03:09 PM
Re: Aranui
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Tangata
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Registered: 06/06/06
Posts: 8
Loc: Australia
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Hi Nancie,
you should email me to agt1@hotmail.com to make better arrangements on how to meet you and your friends. See you soon.
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#16977 - 11/04/06 12:53 PM
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florah
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Registered: 10/30/06
Posts: 1
Loc: USA
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As to shopping during the Aranui cruise:
The ship is a working freighter adn I loved it. When we took the Aranui 2 a few years back, they only had a tiny shop for essentials.
The Marquesans had their tables set up with crafts near the pier or in the villages. If you like something, buy it. Nobody else will have made the exact same thing and you won't go back that soon, I assume. I regretted not buying more wood carvings on Ua Huka. The selection of tapa cloth in Fatu Hiva was very limited. It's a painstaking process to make it.
On Takopoto you can buy pearls.
Cloth is much easier to obtain in Papeete.
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#76757 - 09/30/08 07:10 PM
Re: Aranui
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kitegypsy
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Registered: 01/10/08
Posts: 7
Loc: british columbia, canada
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i am very confused by this site... i am sailing on the aranui on Nove 1, 2008.... i can't find any dates on the postings, and its hard to figure out when people actually on the boat, as most people say they will be sailing on november 4... HELP!!is there a date hidden somewhere on the posts that i am not seeing???
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#76776 - 10/01/08 08:51 AM
Re: Aranui
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hamara
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Registered: 01/07/02
Posts: 2086
Loc: Washington/Moorea
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If you go to the Aranui webpage the trip starts NOV 1
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#76781 - 10/01/08 09:27 AM
Re: Aranui
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Poehere
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Registered: 08/18/07
Posts: 1668
Loc: FP
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Kitegypsy you posted on an "old" thread, see the date on the top right of each reply... 2006, that's prob why the calendar doesn't match.
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#76823 - 10/01/08 09:38 PM
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Suki (689)
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Registered: 10/29/07
Posts: 685
Loc: ELA US of A
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#78300 - 01/02/09 03:59 PM
Re: Aranui
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kitegypsy
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Registered: 01/10/08
Posts: 7
Loc: british columbia, canada
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If anyone's interested, here is my illustrated Blog on our trip on the Aranui3. Start with the post called 'Tripping in Tahiti'....
http://misselaineous-travels.blogspot.com/
hope it brings back some memories...
Edited by kitegypsy (01/02/09 03:59 PM)
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#78301 - 01/02/09 06:01 PM
Re: Aranui
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Old Wife
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Registered: 02/21/03
Posts: 1803
Loc: Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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What a great read (and I love your sketches). Wow, you really did have a bad fall. I had one myself on Bora Bora in 2003 (I did a face-plant in lava rock and needed stitches...but I had mine with no anaesthetic...OUCH). In spite of starting on antibiotics right away, I got pockets of pus all along my nose & cheeks after a day or so, but I was lucky they went away with my double-dose antibiotics. Sorry to hear you had a much worse time of it. I hope you've fully recovered by now. Thanks for the blog!
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#78308 - 01/03/09 07:24 AM
Re: Aranui
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BarbiJKM
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Registered: 02/14/07
Posts: 5337
Loc: Mesa, AZ
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That is a GREAT blog and GORGEOUS sketches and watercolors! I had the pleasure of meeting Elain and Sophie on the check-in line at the LAX airport, when they noticed my knocked-down dog kennel on our luggage cart and figured out, from my dog stories, that it must be me, on my way to bring home our beach dog.
What an awful accident to have in paradise! I hope you are fully recovered now.
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