You meet the most interesting people when you travel and, for us, that usually means when we travel by cruise ship… His name is Lavardo Smith, and we met him in a parking lot of Nassau. As ominous as that sounds, it isn’t. We didn’t even have a car. We were just walking through the… Continue reading Young Man on the Run to London
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Private Islands for Public Cruisers
You know the jokes about who you’d like to be stuck with on a deserted island? (Warning: answering the question can be dangerous to your health, or your relationship, or both.) Cruise lines have made it clear who they’d like to find on their once-deserted islands…you! At least five lines have them, and two were… Continue reading Private Islands for Public Cruisers
The Long and Short of Short Cruises
Having just completed a 4-day cruise on the Norwegian Sky, we thought it would be worth providing some insight on such “short” cruises. Everybody has different reasons for squeezing a cruising experience into three or four days: 1. It’s an introduction for anyone professing to dislike cruising without ever having been on a cruise. 2.… Continue reading The Long and Short of Short Cruises
Norwegian's Tropical Bahamian Island
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
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