Category: Cruises

Port of Call: Hilo, Hawaii

Port of Call Hilo, Hawaii, the most Eastern of the Hawaiian Islands chain, was the first port of Call on this cruise, landing on the fifth day out of Los Angeles. The morning was rainy and windy so last minute we decided to just take the tourbus into town and check out some fresh markets …

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A 28 Day Nightmare Cruise in the Pacific in 2023

Cruising was still relatively new to us. The previous year (2022) we embarked on a Regal Princess Transatlantic Cruise,  which resulted in so much fun that before reaching Barcelona, we decided to add a Mediterranean extension that would take us to Istanbul, the Greek Islands and ports in Italy. Thirty days on the ocean, We …

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Our Cruise ends in Pireaus/Athens, Greece

Today, April 10 our cruise ends in Piraeus, the port city for Athens, Greece. Hard to believe that the last 30 days were spent on a giant cruise ship with some 3,000 other passengers and we still felt like we had not had enough time on the water.  Fourteen destinations later we had arrived in …

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Port of Call: Istanbul, Turkey

Port of Call Istanbul, Turkey had been on TJ’s wishlist since we booked the cruise extension in Barcelona. I forgot to mention this city in the Rome story in the line up of European cities that warrant a week’s visit, simply because there is so much to visit, see and experience. Well Istanbul is one …

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Port of Call: Mykonos

Port of Call: Mykonos  had been in our dreams as a place we wanted to visit badly. Well really it was one of the reasons we had booked the cruise extension in Barcelona. We know that Mykonos is a destination island for sun vacations, so booking a a shore excursion was out of the question. …

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