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<\/a>BFF — or if they aren't his best friends they will be after nine days on a small ship. Sooner, if we know Phil.<\/p>\nHis accounts of the nine-day adventure will be posted on his Ports and Bows blog<\/a>, starting Tuesday, and in his column in next weekend's editions of Postmedia newspapers across Canada. Somewhere along the way, you can expect to read about his 11-hour train ride and tour from Casablanca<\/a> to Marrakesh.<\/p>\n Exactly…the Marrakesh Express<\/em>. Given that it's an 11-hour trip to the Moroccan city known for its leather, "express" seems like an oxymoron.<\/p>\n To most of us, Marrakesh Express<\/em> is the name of a song recorded just a few years ago by Crosby, Stills and Nash<\/em>. It was written by Graham Nash when he was still with The Hollies<\/em> in the mid-'60s after he took the train from Casablanca to Marrakesh, a trip that initially he found so boring in first-class that he went to sit with the "ducks and pigs and chickens."<\/p>\n Hmm, might Phil have a similar experience next week?<\/p>\n Our colleague Phil Reimer, he of Ports and Bows fame, left a few days ago for a rather exotic cruise…so exotic that it took him 24 hours just to get from home to the embarkation point. That would be Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, which seem to be in the middle of nowhere,… Continue reading Cruise Writer to Travel by Express<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[154,761,1097,912,72,35,1098,1099,26,2208,27,93,20,21,148],"class_list":["post-14987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-destiny","tag-casablanca","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-marrakesh","tag-morocco","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-shore-excursions","tag-silver-spirit","tag-silversea","tag-transatlantic-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\n\tCarnival Destiny<\/a>
\n\t18 nights
\n\tFebruary 4, 2013
\n\tMiami<\/a>, Malaga<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a>, Florence<\/a>, Rome<\/a>, Venice<\/a>
\n\tInside: $649
\n\tCost per day: $36<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"