After Hong Kong the next scheduled stop was Taiwan. However, ships docking at Shanghai from Taiwan need a special permit that has been denied this cruise for reasons unknown. Shipping company didn't pay bribe? Tensions with Taiwanese? The configuration of the planets?
Consequently we are shake, rattling and rolling across a not too calm South China Sea to a Japanese island called Ishigaki. Passengers are staggering around like drunken sailors even if they aren't and sea sick bags are arrayed on the railings at stairway landings. After one day on Ishigaki we will retrace our way to Shanghai.
The ship's internet technology cannot operate in Japanese waters so at some time I will disappear from cyberspace for awhile. Since the last four days of the cruise are in Japan, the blog will end early unless land based wifi becomes available.
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