On the Boat: 

    Dopey Clapping Frog, AKA (DCF or D), recently journeyed to Scandinavian capitals and St. Petersburg Russia.  His immediate immersion into cruise life really astonished me.  His reactions, in fact, rather saddened and horrified my sense of propriety.  Imagine my shock the very first day while sailing through the Kiel Canal in Germany, I turned to see the Norwegian Dream tilt\flip its smoke stacks in order to pass under one of the seven large bridges.