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<\/a><\/p>\nOnce there were pirates on <\/i><\/b>Grand Cayman Island<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u2026now there are beaches and wonderful people and a place called Hell, worth the trip from Georgetown. No pirates.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Imagine seeing water as clear as this from the balcony of a cruise ship! This was in <\/i><\/b>Roatan<\/i><\/b><\/a>, Honduras and one of the nicest \u201cenvironmental\u201d welcomes we\u2019ve ever seen.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n One of the many friendly cruise-ship stops in the <\/i><\/b>Bahamas<\/i><\/b><\/a> is <\/i><\/b>Freeport<\/i><\/b><\/a> in <\/i><\/b>Grand Bahama Island<\/i><\/b><\/a>, where the locals wanted to see if we could proof-read their sign.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a good reason why this port might make you think of the Netherlands\u2026it\u2019s colorful <\/i><\/b>Curacao<\/i><\/b><\/a> in what until 2010 was known as the Netherland Antilles.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The unmistakable, natural entrance to <\/i><\/b>Cabo San Lucas<\/i><\/b><\/a> is possibly the most photographed rock formation in all of Mexico, which has thousands of them.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n You could say there\u2019s nothing especially warm about this entrance to <\/i><\/b>Grand Turk<\/i><\/b><\/a> in the Caribbean, except that entrances to every Caribbean port are warm!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Labadee<\/i><\/b><\/a> is likely a place that would never be heard of if not for the fact <\/i><\/b>Royal Caribbean<\/i><\/b><\/a> made it a private port for \u201cof the Seas\u201d ships to put it on the map.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022 Norway-owned Hurtigruten cruise line going inland (the Amazon) for the first time Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/strong><\/em>Azamara unveils itineraries three years early<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Cruise ports always like to put on their best faces when welcoming ships that carry thousands of visitors, and \u201cbest faces\u201d can be the welcome that awaits when you disembark. It could be a sign, or dancers, or a scenic harbor or something else created by Mother Nature. Today\u2019s Friday File takes in all of… Continue reading Friday File: Faces Of Ports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,1893,31],"tags":[137,912,72,819,35,126,375,26,27],"class_list":["post-26421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-photos","category-ports","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sky","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26421","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=26421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Eight coins welded into keel in otherwise traditional ceremony for the Silver Muse<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNorwegian Sky
\n<\/a>3 nights
\nJanuary 22, 2016
\nMiami<\/a> (return): Grand Bahama lsland<\/a>, Nassau<\/a>, Great Stirrup Cay
\n<\/a>Inside: $269
\nCost per day: $89<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"