Random thoughts from the sea
Day 121, 2024 Grand World Voyage Friday, May 3, 2024; Mindelo, Ilha de São Vicente, Cape Verde. Portugal has left its mark on many ports of call around the world. Whether it be Brazil, Madeira, the Azores or Macau, I’ve found clues to their Portuguese past in building styles, the
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Days 115, 119, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday and Wednesday, April 27 & May 1, 2024; Takoradi, Ghana, and Banjul, The Gambia Maybe it’s port overload after 40 so far. Maybe it’s because we were in these West African ports just a year ago, and they aren’t places I would
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Days 103-106, 2024 Grand World Voyage Monday-Thursday, April 15-18, 2024; Thanda Safari Private Game Reserve, South Africa, Part 2. Hello! Guest blogger Eloise again with another safari report. The last report covered our safari drives into the bush. This one will look at our time in the lodge, Thanda’s Villa
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Days 103-106, 2024 Grand World Voyage Monday-Thursday, April 15-18, 2024; Thanda Safari Private Game Reserve, South Africa (Editor’s note: Enjoy the first of my sister Eloise’s two guest blog posts about the safari she and my sister Elaine took in South Africa!) What is a trip to Africa without exotic
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Days 109-110, 2024 Grand World Voyage Sunday and Monday, April 21-22, 2024; Lüderitz and Walvis Bay, Namibia This is when, with just three weeks remaining on our 18-week cruise, time starts to speed up. I find myself fighting against the urge to start packing. After all, the three weeks are
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Days 105-107, 2024 Grand World Voyage Wednesday-Friday, April 17-19, 2024; Cape Town, South Africa. I don’t think I have ever before spent two nights and three days in a port during a cruise, but what a thrill it is to do so in Cape Town – one of the world’s
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Days 101 and 103, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday and Monday, April 13 and 15, 2024; Maputo, Mozambique, and Durban, South Africa. I’m back in two African ports that I really never saw last year, when our overland safari departed from Maputo, Mozambique, and returned to Durban, South Africa. In
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Day 97, 2024 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, April 9, 2024; Zanzibar, Tanzania. If yesterday was all about the natural side of Zanzibar, today is about Zanzibar City and its historic center of Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Again, we took a half-day excursion through our travel agency. We
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Day 96, 2024 Grand World Voyage Monday, April 8, 2024; Zanzibar, Tanzania. We’ve arrived in Africa! And let me just start out saying that Zanzibar is a great introduction to this vast continent. Yes, I’ve been to Africa before, but never Tanzania. It is in fact the 13th African country
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Days 92-93, 2024 Grand World Voyage Wednesday and Thursday, April 4-5, 2024; Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles. When I imagine faraway island paradises, it’s hard to beat the Indian Ocean nations of Maldives and Seychelles. I was disappointed in 2020 when our grand world voyage ended abruptly due to the pandemic before
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