Category Archives: Ports of Call

Looking Across – Grand Cayman – [01/02/2014]

It’s so surreal when one can look across the water from their current ship and see the ship they just left before the holidays. It’s like looking into a snippet of your own past. Not that I don’t seem to … Continue reading

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Suspended… – Panama Canal – [12/30/2013]

I never thought I would see the Panama Canal, let alone be sitting at my desk watching it slide past the ship for the 5th, perhaps 6th time – and that’s not me purposely name-dropping, I honestly have lost track. … Continue reading

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Ask Me No Questions – Cozumel, Mexico – [11/08/2013]

Some days you can’t quite figure out how to write about, because every time you try it comes out wrong. It comes out sounding silly or tawdry or any other number of things that it isn’t… Some days you just … Continue reading

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Another Day For You And Me In Paradise – Half Moon Key, Bahamas – [11/02/2013]

I am the first to admit that I’m not a sun-baby, but for Half-Moon Key I make an exception. The company owns this island, and it boasts one of the best beaches in the Bahamas. The water here is so … Continue reading

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Second to Final – Cadiz, Spain – [10/16/2013]

I don’t remember the last time I was in Cadiz, though I know it must have been sometime within the last year as it’s a regular stop on the world cruise. I remember the narrow twisting streets and the ice … Continue reading

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Saturday In the Park – Barcelona, Spain – [10/05/2013]

Let’s go for a jaunty saunter You are bound to make your mark Looks like all of you were born to take a promenade in the park ~ Mary Poppins: The Musical Birthdays on ships are a weird thing to … Continue reading

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The Soul Of History – Florence, Italy – [10/02/2013]

In every age mankind attempts to fabricate great works at once magnificent and impossible. In deserts sands from mountains of stone a pyramid, from flying buttresses alone a wall of light. A chapel ceiling screaming one man’s ecstasy[…] miracles them … Continue reading

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Soft Focus – Civitavecchia, Italy – [09/04/2013]

We get up at twelve and start to work at one. Take an hour for lunch and then at two we’re done.  Jolly good fun! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: there is nothing not to adore … Continue reading

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Three Coins in a Fountain – Rome, Italy – [08/26/2013]

Three hearts in a fountain Each heart longing for its home There they lie in the fountain Somewhere in the heart of Rome Nearly two years it’s been since I last stepped into Rome. The last time – as everyone … Continue reading

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Grecian Urns – Katakolon, Greece – [08/02/2013]

Katakolon is one of those ports where there isn’t a great deal to do once you’ve been there before – unless you are taking the tour out to Olympia which, even after several calls here still has not lined up … Continue reading

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