Random thoughts from the sea
Day 40, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Friday, Nov. 11, 2022; Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand. Today’s destination is acclaimed to be New Zealand’s most famous tourist destination, a world’s top travel destination and the eighth Wonder of the World (the latter according to Rudyard Kipling). And
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Day 1, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022; Seattle, Washington, USA As an act of faith, I set off Friday for Seattle to board the MS Westerdam. After more than two years on land, the disappointment of eight canceled back-to-back cruises this summer and the
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Day 60, Grand World Voyage 2020 Wednesday, March 4, 2020; Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand Today’s port call at the Bay of Islands in northeast New Zealand was remarkably similar to the one I made in late 2017. If I’m fortunate enough to come back here a third time,
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Day 52, Grand World Voyage 2020 Monday, Feb. 24, 2020; Rarotonga, Cook Islands I should have realized how small Rarotonga is when I tried to download its map on my Planet Earth phone app and couldn’t find one. As it turned out, it took little more than 30 minutes to
Continue readingDay 60, Grand Asia 2017 Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017 – Tauranga, New Zealand Today the Amsterdam docked right at the downtown area of Tauranga, a small city that has become New Zealand’s largest port. We were in the shadow of the volcanic Mount Maunganui, and a number of passengers took
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