When you travel on cruise ships, you often encounter signs that have strange, double or hidden meanings. Or maybe they’re just clever, prompting the shutterbugs to snap a few photos. And that’s what we’ve done, for your enjoyment (and ours) this week… This was in Lima, Peru and we didn’t need a Spanish-English dictionary to… Continue reading Friday File: Signs, signs, everywhere…
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The Best Of Visiting Alaska Glaciers
ALASKA — When you’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy seven different excursions in Alaska, choosing a favorite is like picking crab over lobster — or vice versa. As our Voyage of The Glaciers cruise on the Star Princess wound down, it was a regular question among the participants. Almost everyone’s pick had the word “glacier”… Continue reading The Best Of Visiting Alaska Glaciers
Friday File: The Food Of Alaska
When you cruise to Alaska to enjoy the local cuisine, you can expect to have seafood…and seafood…and seafood. It’s what Alaskans have long consumed for survival, with a little caribou or reindeer added for variety, and it’s what passengers on the Star Princess had the most opportunities to enjoy. Did we mention that you should… Continue reading Friday File: The Food Of Alaska
June Weather An Alaska All-Star
JUNEAU, Alaska — it's perfectly understandable that Alaskans don't really know what to do about the weather. Here in the capital, they live in a rain forest and it's not raining. "People in Alaska don't know what to do with this much sunshine," one of them said, while the digital thermometer downtown displayed 67 degrees… Continue reading June Weather An Alaska All-Star
Balcony Breakfast Princess Treat
ON BOARD THE STAR PRINCESS — Can there be a better wake-up call than sitting on the balcony of a cruise ship with a glacier looming on the outside and a young man from Buenos Aires delivering a four-course breakfast from the inside? If there is, we have yet to experience it. This is the… Continue reading Balcony Breakfast Princess Treat