When it comes to food — and we come to food often — one of us is a little fussy and one of us will eat just about anything. We'll let you guess.
As we cruise to places we've never been, and meet locals we've never seen, we often try to enjoy some of the local delicacies on the shore. Even if it's something that has never been our radar, never mind our table.
But spiders?
We were reading a diary-of-sorts from some people who booked a cruise through cruise.co.uk and were reporting back on their experiences, for the benefit of readers, even ones so far from the UK that we'd never book a cruise with that agency. These people had been on a Southeast Asian cruise to Vietnam and Cambodia.
One day's entry was entitled: A Tasty Tarantula.
There was a photo of a local woman with a plate of them, clearly for sale to passersby. There was a picture of the author, about to sink her incisors into a long, black spider. This was either a day after the travelers had been to Angkor Wat, which is a Hindu temple complex that apparently is a must-see the next time you're in Cambodia.
Either that, or it's what you say — "Angkor Wat!!!" — after you eat a tarantula.
Holland America Zaandam
7 nights
May 26, 2013
Vancouver, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Anchorage
Oceanview: $449
Cost per day: $64
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