Category Archives: Holiday Cruises 2011

Drowning in Details – At Sea – [01/04/2012]

It won’t be a novelty, we mostly have seen them all before Prepare for the usual, you should be aware of what’s in store… We’ve served them on the Baltic, and the Oceanic, The Olympic, The Majestic and today’s the … Continue reading

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Of Floating Palaces – St Thomas – [01/03/2012]

So it is that we return to the Virgin Islands. Having only just been here a week or so ago (though granted, it was a slightly different port), I can’t say I had the urge to get off the ship … Continue reading

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On Endings and Beginnings – St Lucia – [12/31/2011]

Each ending is only a beginning after all… Normally on the last day of the year I look back and chronicle everything that’s gone on in the last 365 days…but 2011 has been simultaneously rock steady predicable and yet so … Continue reading

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On Solitude – St Maarten – [12/30/2011]

There is little in the way of solitude on a ship, and when one has to deal with the presence of a another person, however considerate,  in what was once her own hard-earned, heavily protected, very private sanctuary, there is … Continue reading

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In Transition – At Sea – [12/28/2011]

It’s a velvet prison sometimes, this strange world in which I live. In which so many people that are close to me these days live. We pretend we aren’t tied to anything, and in some ways we’re not. That’s what … Continue reading

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Lift Off – Fort Lauderdale – [12/27/2011]

And so begins the last cruise of the year… Embarkation day, as usual, is organized chaos. On my last ship, my friends used to tease me that I was like the Wicked Witch of the West on Embark day, they … Continue reading

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And So This Is Christmas… – At Sea – [12/25/2011]

Christmas day at sea dawned as clear and bright as anyone could wish for. The waves were smooth and the sun was out, it was windy, as usual, but that’s to be expected when you’re moving at a fair click. … Continue reading

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Christmas Comes Tomorrow ! – St Thomas – [12/24/2011]

Trim you! Trim me!! Every who down in who-ville like Christmas a lot… Hang on, wrong story… “One Christmas was so much like another in those days beyond the sea-town corner now…” Wait…that’s the wrong story too… I kid, I … Continue reading

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Where the warm winds fill the sheets – San Juan – [12/23/2011]

Much as I was looking forward to seeing San Juan, I’m afraid I can’t tell you anything about it. I didn’t get past the end of the dock. I was supposed to have IPM today, so despite a 4 hour … Continue reading

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But What You’re Looking For…Is Paradise – Half Moon Cay – [12/21/2011]

When you first see Half Moon Cay from the deck of the over-sized shore-side tender that ferries you over there, all you see is this massive crescent shaped stretch of white sand.  As you get closer, you can make out … Continue reading

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