TJ and Han
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Apr 01
A Taste of London
The train from Southampton dropped us off at Victoria Station in London’s City of Westminster district. We had figured out that a 15 minute walk down Belgrave Rd would bring us to our hotel on Warwick Way. And it did, even with large suitcases down the sidewalk. But before we decided to check in, …
Mar 23
Intended Port of Call: La Coruña
La Coruña was the intended and much anticipated Port of Call in northern Spain’s Galicia region. Because of ongoing bad weather patterns during this cruise we could not make a daylong stop there and everything was cut short to a quick stop in the foggy cruise port to offload some passengers and a crew of …
Mar 19
Port of Call: Casablanca – Morocco
Port of Call Casablanca, Morocco: “Here’s looking at you, Kid” No we didn’t visit Rick’s Café Americain, famous from the 1942 Hollywood movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Even though the café is located close to the cruise docks, the café did not open until more than 60 years later in 2004 and …
Mar 20
Port of Call Change to Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Storms to the north forced us to change the Portuguese Island of Madeira for Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the much farther south Spanish Canary Islands. Santa Cruz de Tenerife was a good choice, especially since we had visited Madeira a couple of years before and were not totally impressed, as the island definitely breathes …
Apr 30
A Second Winter on Beaver Island Michigan
Remembering the good times we had during our first winter on Beaver Island during Covid, and the fact that we have made deep friendships with some other “islanders”, combined again with the fact that it had been an exhausting vacation season at the Beaver Island Lodge, AND the fresh memory of our disastrous Pacific cruise, …
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