With each day, and each violent activity often linked to terrorism, reasonable people who like to travel get even more reasonable. Or concerned. Or paranoid. Or even scared. Pick an adverb. The uncertainty of traveling abroad — be it in one direction to Europe or in the other to Asia — understandably may leave North… Continue reading The Modern Problem Of Picking A Port
Tag: Anchorage
Friday File: The Anchorage Museum
If you’re on an Alaska cruise that takes you to Anchorage between now and the end of the season, there’s still time to see Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage at the Anchorage Museum. For us, the museum trip was recommended by Guy Glaeser, the Princess Cruises expert on Alaska, and it turned… Continue reading Friday File: The Anchorage Museum
Wildlife In Alaska Often Surprising
ALASKA — For a few days, we thought our views of Alaskan wildlife might be the mosquito on the sidewalk in Anchorage, the crazed woman standing on the side of the Parks Highway menacingly cradling a rock in her hand and a moose of uncertain gender and size that we spotted from the seat of… Continue reading Wildlife In Alaska Often Surprising
Alaska Wildfire Cautions Cruisers
ANCHORAGE — If there’s one thing Alaska has learned to deal with, it’s uncertainty. Day One of an 11-day experience for us — like many cruisers, four on land and seven on the Star Princess as part of a Princess Cruisetour — was waiting with just such an introduction. On the eve of the height… Continue reading Alaska Wildfire Cautions Cruisers
What's to Like About Epic
It was on the Celebrity Eclipse, somewhere crossing the Atlantic, that we heard the erudite author John Maxtone-Graham give the best answer when he was asked what his favourite cruise ship was. "The one I'm on," he said. Now that can be taken as a cop-out, or an evasive answer, or both. But for people who… Continue reading What's to Like About Epic