GREAT STIRRUP CAY — Until we met Kent Albury, we thought “Bad Billy” was the kid down the street that terrorized the neighborhood. Other kids were afraid of what he’d do to them. Parents were afraid their kids would be like him. In Kent’s vocabulary, “Bad Billy” is the wind. When it blows from the… Continue reading Norwegian's Tropical Bahamian Island
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Nassau's Fascinating Graycliff Hotel
NASSAU, Bahamas — Really, it was just a hotel. So understated from the street that you could walk by it, and we almost did. That would have been our loss. We walked through the front door of the Graycliff Hotel, just like Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall did, 33 years earlier. Except they had a… Continue reading Nassau's Fascinating Graycliff Hotel
Nassau More than Walk in a Park
NASSAU, Bahamas — As concierges go, Ana Maria Telea is high on our list. She works on the water (Norwegian Sky), but she knows a lot about walking. Probably not on water. Faced with the prospect of snuba diving, scuba diving, even snorkeling, off-roading or deep-sea fishing from this Bahamian port, we chose walking. Ana… Continue reading Nassau More than Walk in a Park
Trying to Bridge the Generation Gap
ON BOARD THE NORWEGIAN SKY… Captain Roger Gustavsen remembers the day his mother watched him at the helm of the Norwegian Dream. It was in the Kiel Canal, the busiest man-made waterway in the world that cuts through northern Germany and connects the Baltic Sea with the North Sea. The Dream was the fourth of… Continue reading Trying to Bridge the Generation Gap
On a Rainy Day in the Bahamas
FREEPORT, Bahamas — As we disembarked the Norwegian Sky at this first stop on a four-day cruise, we had a plan for our first visit to Freeport. The plan was there would be no plan. It was ad-lib all the way. This can sometimes be great, and sometimes not. Since this is an island of… Continue reading On a Rainy Day in the Bahamas