BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Lanette Canen and Johan Bodin provided up life on land to endedupbeing seaborne wanderers on a years-long cruise.
Months lateron, the couple has yet to invest a night at sea. Their ship, the Odyssey, is stuck in Belfast goingthrough repairwork work that has heldoff its arranged May departure for a 3 ½-year round-the-world trip.
Bodin stated Friday that they haveactually delightedin their pit stop in the Northern Ireland capital, however “when we’d checkedout every club and attempted and every fish and chips location and listened to all the puts that have Irish music, then we were prepared to go somewhereelse.”
“We’re prepared to set sail, for sure,” included Canen.
Villa Vie Residences’ Odyssey is the mostcurrent endeavor in the tempest-tossed world of constant travelling.
It uses tourists the possibility to buy a cabin and live at sea on a ship circumnavigating the world. On its maiden trip, it is arranged to goto 425 ports in 147 nations on 7 continents. Cabins – billed as “villas” — start at $99,999, plus a regularmonthly charge, for the functional life of the vessel, at least 15 years. Passengers can likewise indication up for sections of the trip enduring weeks or months.
Marketing product, intended at daring seniorcitizens and agitated digital wanderers, promotes “the amazing chance to own a home on a drifting paradise,” total with a healthclub, medspa, putting green, homeentertainment centers, a service center and an “experiential cooking .”
But veryfirst, the Odyssey has to get out of the dock.
It’s now at Belfast’s Harland & Wol