Random thoughts from the sea
Dear Cruise Diary Day 31 – Dubai, United Arab Emerates May 21, 2013 Disembarkation day is the worst way to end a cruise in my mind. First, the vacation (working or not) is over. Someone else will be sleeping in your cruise ship bed tonight. The process of leaving the
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Days 28-30 – At Sea in the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf May 18-20, 2013 It was hard to believe that the cruise was almost over. Thirty days passed quickly. So, too, did the six days at sea that ended our
Continue readingIf you want to be busy every minute of the day, even on days at sea, you can easily fill your time. As readers of my Dear Cruise Diary reports know, I manage to stay busy. And yet I don’t participate in many of the planned activities. Just not my
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 24 – Aqaba, Jordan, and tour to Petra and Wadi Rum May 14, 2013 The Mariner of the Seas was not scheduled to dock in Aqaba, Jordan, until 9 am, so it was a treat to sleep past 7 am. I also was better accustomed
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 23 – Safaga, Luxor and Valley of the Kings May 13, 2013 It was another early start, as our tour group gathered as soon as Egyptian officials had cleared the ship around 7:30 am. Almost everyone on the ship must have signed up for a
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 22 – Suez Canal and Gulf of Suez May 12, 2013 Between the long days in Cairo and the head cold I was fighting, I slept through the night and didn’t get up to see us enter the Suez Canal at Port Said at about
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Days 20-21 Alexandria, Egypt; tour to Cairo and Giza May 10-11, 2013 We docked and cleared customs by 7:30 am in Alexandria, and our tour leader had asked that we meet him as quickly as possible, because we had a lot planned for the two days.
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Days 17-19 – At Sea in the Mediterranean May 7-9, 2013 One of my observations from the first two weeks of this cruise has been that writing this journal has taken much more time than I thought it would. For the second half of the cruise,
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 16 – Barcelona May 6, 2013 Today all but about 900 passengers were leaving the ship, so I wasn’t in a huge hurry to deal with the crowds. After another breakfast in the Windjammer, I packed away the last few things in my suitcase, leaving out
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 15 – Alicante, Spain May 5, 2013 Again, I was in no rush to get going in the morning, so by the time I had breakfast and packed for the day ashore, it was probably 9:30 am when I left the ship and caught the
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