Mar 19
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
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 …
Mar 15
Our first transatlantic cruise in 2022 was mostly the result of a Covid test gone lopsided, which prevented us from flying to Curaçao in the southern Caribbean. It was meant for a two wee trip to Barcelona. However before we arrived in Barcelona on that first cruise, the bug already got us and we booked …
Apr 06
Port of Call: Papeete, Tahiti The Islands of Tahiti constitute of the 118 islands spread over a surface as big as Europe. The best known 3 islands are Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora. These volcanic islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean, in the heart of the Society Islands, also called French Polynesia. From …
Apr 03
Port of Call: Apia, Samoa This capital city of former French Samoa with about 36,000 inhabitants, situated itself in 2011 just across the international dateline, which of course meant we lost a day we never got back.😂 For those of you who don’t know how globally confusing this whole ordeal, introduced in 1884, can be, …
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