Thought I'd rekindle this great thread with my romantic story :-)
I met my mahal nearly 2 years ago now onboard the cruise ship ms Rotterdam. She was a Physio/Fitness instructor onboard and I was sailing as Sr Navigator. I saw her a few times in the bar, and it was love at first sight from my part. So to get her interest I decided to enrol on fitness training with her, and eventually managed to persuade her to come out with me. Our first date was to a theme park in Copenhagen where she was full of confidence that she could handle anything (having been to Enchanted Kingdom in Manila), but after the first roller coaster spent the next hour clinging onto me, shaking. Things just continued from there, and now we seem to be spending a lot of time flying back and forth between England and Philippines :-)
She has since forced me to give up cruise ships, for a more sedate life on quieter ships :-(
Now hoping that we'll be married in the next 12 months and settle down in England :-)
Oh yes, I took her on Europes biggest roller coaster in Blackpool this year, and no she has given up rollercoasters for life hehe.
I used to drink back in those days,so its small wonder I introduced him to his first pinay girlfriend after I went into a toilet cubicle with her and her friend for an Ihi,we were all sloshed so there were no shinanegans,but I remember his girlfriend sitting on the toilet,her friend squatting on the floor,while I slumped drunkenly against the wall with my trousers open awaiting my turn 
Anyway,she didnt last long,she was caught as an overstayer weeks later and deported 
We went in,she said "Why did you point at me??" I was a little bit p*ss*d so I said,"My friend said look in that window,its the most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life,so I pointed and asked him was it you,he said it was" sometimes you have to think on your feet,and it was a right load of old flannel,but I guessed it worked as they have been married now for 13 or 14 years 
