Trick or Treat or are the ghosts all year round? It appears the latter whether you aim at Boston or New Orleans. There was so much conflict creating America, that the ghosts still rumble on. Autumn is the time of year for spooky stories and Halloween cakes on the ships. The cinemas and television are filled with horror films and the nights this side of the globe get longer and darker. The podcast is here - https://play.acast.com/s/doris-visits/halloween
Halloween Cakes on the Azura
https://youtu.be/GwS1lOXUOPE
Podcast 3 is live and Stuart and Jean talk through what seems to be an endless list of ghost stories in Boston, which make up much of the tourist fodder. Stuart thinks that Boston is a spooky cruise port and with good reason. The ghost tours are normally at night, and cruisers have left, but as he joined the ship at Boston early (ships fly acts out a day early just in case) he considered a ghost tour, but he went to Cheers and then to Joe's instead.
https://youtu.be/AzySPeDMo88
The Boston bar that inspired the TV series “Cheers” was originally named the Bull and Finch Pub and was established in 1969. The Boston pub that inspired the fictional bar in the NBC sitcom, Cheers, is a bar in the Beacon Hill area. You go down below street level into the bar, then take the stairs up to a bar that looks more like the one in the TV series. Jean went there rather than complete all the spooky cemeteries on the trail available from the tourist office (mentioned in film).
Jean chose New Orleans as her spooky voodoo cruise stop. On the podcast, you will hear her and comedy magician Manuel Martinez going into the cigar factory. In the film, they saw far more. New Orleans has many stories from the Witch Queen to the contemporary Nicholas Cage who has bought his plot ready in cemetery number 1.
Who sang - The Witch Queen of New Orleans? Answer- Redbone.
https://youtu.be/ItrpcF1dJ14
For fireworks, Stuart chose Sydney Bridge as the one he thinks is the most spectacular. He and Jean climbed the tower to the top, had a spectacular view, and filmed those climbing over the bridge who are not allowed a camera and are alcohol tested before they climb. They were there on a leg of a world cruise which was weather struck and the ship sheltered in Sydney for three days. They have a few films made in Sydney from the beach to shops.
https://youtu.be/d-T9KhRd8oE
Finally, Stuart reads Chapter 3 from his cruise novel Cruise Ship Heist. For the audible trial click here
