This won’t make headlines anywhere outside of Jamaica, but maybe it should. The cruise port of Falmouth, beset by a myriad of delays, will open this week and Voyageur of the Seas and its 3,000-plus passengers will descend on the beleaguered Jamaican town. Is Falmouth ready? It wasn’t last May, when the first cruise-ship arrival… Continue reading Big Week at hand for Falmouth
Cruising Notes on the Boats
Ship: Norwegian Pearl, 7 days, Seattle to Glacier Bay, Alaska (round trip) Departures: May 15 and selected dates Ports: Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, Victoria Price: Inside staterooms $699 Bonus: Upgrade — Oceanview at $849 upgraded to balcony Contact: Norwegian Cruise Line * * * The world’s most prolific cruise blogger, certainly in terms of word count,… Continue reading Cruising Notes on the Boats
Some hockey wisdom from hockey giants
My dad, Bob Dunn, used to be a sports journalist. He had the 1960s storybook experience of starting as a paper boy in Winnipeg at the Tribune, getting on doing odd jobs in the news room, and managing to work himself into a desk job and, eventually, up to a position as a columnist not… Continue reading Some hockey wisdom from hockey giants
Unrest Unsettles Cruise World, Too
Even with today’s resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, the fallout from what has been happening in Egypt the last three weeks is likely to continue having a ripple effect on everybody, including people who in some way are connected to Mediterranean or Suez Canal cruises. For at least two weeks, there has been an obviously… Continue reading Unrest Unsettles Cruise World, Too
Carnival Captain Truly Man of the Sea
After meeting Carnival Captain Andrea Viacava, there was only one question on our minds. How can you not like this man? He’s a character. One of the things we discussed in a wide-ranging discussion on the bridge of the Ecstasy was navigation, and how he has seen it change over the years. “I started in… Continue reading Carnival Captain Truly Man of the Sea