Random thoughts from the sea
Days 1-4, 2026 Grand World Voyage Sunday to Wednesday, Jan. 4-7, 2026; Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and At Sea. Describe Heaven: Starting a cruise with three sea days! After months of almost non-stop port days, I’ve looked forward to the 133-day 2026 Grand World Voyage, with its stretches of lazy sea
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Days 9-14, 2025 Caribbean Holiday Monday to Saturday, Dec. 29, 2025-Jan. 3, 2026; Saint Lucia, Sint Maartin, Antigua, Grand Turk and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. This week proves I’m the party pooper on this cruise. While we’ve celebrated Christmas, New Year’s and just the fun of the Caribbean, I’ve tended
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Days 1-8, 2025 Caribbean Holiday Sunday to Sunday, Dec. 21-28, 2025; U.S. Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and Martinique. At 6:38 a.m. on Christmas morning, I was the only person in the Crow’s Nest on the MS Volendam. It’s a new cruise on a different ship, and even after
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Days 148-154, 2025 European Odyssey Sunday to Saturday, Nov. 23-29, 2025; Transatlantic crossing to Fort Lauderdale. After months of about six port days a week on average, you might think we hardly know what to do with six sea days in a row. Au contraire, the days have been filled
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Days 144-147, 2025 European Odyssey Wednesday to Saturday, Nov. 19-22, 2025; Gibraltar; and Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. I’m sometimes convinced that on every cruise, regardless of where we are going, the captain heads east in the early morning so the sun will be in my face while I write in
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Days 142-143, 2025 European Odyssey Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17-18, 2025; Cartagena and Málaga, Spain. Almost immediately I noted a slight change in atmosphere on this cruise, as instead of being port-intensive, it will have many sea days the second week as we cross the Atlantic Ocean to Fort Lauderdale,
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Days 138-140, 2025 European Odyssey Thursday to Saturday, Nov. 13-15, 2025; Messina, Naples and Civitavecchia, Italy. I can thank my nephew Colton for getting me out of my “rut” of spending days in Sicily at Taormina. Not that I don’t love this village that clings high on the cliffs. During
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Days 134-136, 2025 European Odyssey Sunday to Tuesday, Nov. 9-11, 2025; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Saranda, Albania; and Argostóli, Greece. When our small tour group turned a corner in the walled city of Dubrovnik, the scene sparked a memory of my visit here 18 years ago. An artist sat painting watercolors in
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Days 130-132, 2025 European Odyssey Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 5-7, 2025; Split, Croatia; Trieste, Italy; and Koper, Slovenia. I’m finding my nephew Colton to be an excellent traveling companion. He seldom complains and is happy to go with the flow. And he doesn’t snore! He isn’t particularly interested in tours
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Days 126-129, 2025 European Odyssey Saturday to Tuesday, Nov. 1-4, 2025; Athens and Corfu, Greece; Kotor, Montenegro. Well, I can see that I’m not going to get much on my to-do list done during the next two weeks. By early Saturday afternoon, I sat above the Lido pool welcoming friends
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