Random thoughts from the sea
Day 16, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024; Lucca, Italy. Alongside the giants of Tuscany (Florence and Pisa) sits the more manageable city of Lucca. Today we wandered the city from inside its intact 2.5 miles of ancient wall. Being a Sunday morning, the streets and plazas were somewhat
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Day 12, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024; Casablanca/Marrakesh, Morocco Is Marrakesh really mystical? My generation grew up humming along to Marrakesh Express (thanks to songwriter Graham Nash and Crosby, Stills and Nash). I had vague images of mysterious markets filled with the danger of snake charmers, the sensuality
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Day 9, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024; Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal Alas, my plan to enjoy my favorite cocktail – a gin and tonic – at Peter’s Café Sport in Horta, Azores, went awry. Seas too rough for tendering ashore caused us to miss yesterday’s port call after
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I thought I would be blogging from the deck of a cruise ship this month, after 810 days stuck on land. My plan was to fly with my two sisters to Amsterdam today and board Holland America’s ms Volendam, sailing as far north as Svalbard and as far south as
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JULY 9, 2021, SANTA FE, NM — It’s been 473 days since I was last on a cruise ship. It will be another 338 days until I cruise again. That is, if all goes as planned. I’m using a pencil, not a pen. Social media is awash in rumors and
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Day 300, Pandemic Sunday, Jan. 16, 2021; Dallas Three hundred days ago today we arrived at home after abandoning our 2020 World Cruise. We had no idea at the time that we would not be back for the 2021 World Cruise. Now I’m wondering about the 2022 World Cruise. But
Continue readingDay 27, Grand Asia 2017 Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017 – Shanghai, China Shanghai is one of those cities that must be experienced rather than toured. I didn’t know much about it before arriving, and it didn’t have a must-see historic icon on my list like the Great Wall, Petra or
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