I'm a merchant navy deck officer, trained on heavylift/general cargo ships, then on cruise ships and now working on a superyacht (we've sailed about 3 weeks this year, 1 week of that was relocating from France to Egypt). Have been based in a few different places and know an Irish bar in most countries lol
Quite a few of us seafarers and expat workers end up with Filipina wives from the amount i've come cross in the Philippines and on here.