On our trip through the Panama Canal in April (see old blogs), our singular regret was that we weren’t able to disembark in the country that hosts the Canal. Our daughter and son-in-law had spent some time in Panama and, while we sometimes have — what shall we say? — different tastes when it comes… Continue reading A Panama Canal Voyage's Missing Link
Category: Cruise News
Growth of the Titanic Cruise Story
There we were yesterday morning, watching CNN over the foam of a morning cappuccino, when on comes a story about a cruise going to where the Titanic sank in 1912. As the day wore on, the story gathered momentum in virtually all media outlets, and so did the inevitable good-or-bad-idea debate. Now we’re not in… Continue reading Growth of the Titanic Cruise Story
Quite a Hoot for Oasis of the Seas
News item: An owl is discovered on board the Oasis of the Seas, parked near the artificial grass of the golf course on an upper deck. The burrowing owl was captured by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, removed from the ship and released into the wild. We’ve had a burrowing owl in our… Continue reading Quite a Hoot for Oasis of the Seas
Cruising — Notes on the Boats
THE RIGHT PRICE…………………….$399 October 17, 31, 2010: Eastern Caribbean: Miami round-trip 7 days Ports: Miami, Samana, St. Thomas, Tortola, Great Stirrup Cay Ship: Norwegian Pearl Contact: ncl.com * * * As gossip columnists go, she was one of the originals (anybody old enough to remember Louella Parsons?) and by today’s tell-all standards, Rona Barrett would… Continue reading Cruising — Notes on the Boats
Aye, It's Talk-Like-A-Pirate Time!
In my youth, my only association with pirates was seeing Captain Hook in the Disney movie Peter Pan, and I didn’t care much for either Hook or Peter, the geek who flew around in tights. So here I am, x years later, trapped in a world of pirates. Two of my three children are eagerly… Continue reading Aye, It's Talk-Like-A-Pirate Time!