Serenity November 18,2023 We’d been solving the New York Times “Wordle” game every day, when a few months ago a new word game appeared in my news feed: “Connections”. We tried it, liked it and added it to our morning puzzle routine. I like Connections because it’s usually a greater challenge for me than Wordle...
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November 17,2023 Crystal Serenity One of the first things that Timmy did when we boarded on Monday was to label the light switches. He did this for me on Symphony – several days into that cruise. I guess he tired of me switching every light on in search of the living room ceiling lights. There...
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November 17,2023 Serenity When we began cruising, we’d occasionally hear other guests say “The ship is the destination” in answer to the question “Did you go ashore today?” and I’d be puzzled, because I’d want to see and experience e v e r y t i n g. Fast forward…here we are cruising in the...
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Serenity November 15,2023 We arrived in the port of Cozumel shortly before 8:00 am. and having no plans…that became the plan. We began our day as I always want to…on our balcony with coffee and whatever. Here we have our wonderful cruise director, Raphael Derkson, warming up before a performance of The Crystal Showband &...
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November 14, 2023 Serenity Sea Day I cannot tell you what a joy it is to be back sailing on Serenity…around every corner we discover another crew member and have a happy reunion. I regret that we spent the day eating and reminiscing … instead of taking photos of the crew. Oh well. Tomorrow’s another...
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November 13,2023 We left Sarasota yesterday, driving three hours across the state to Miami, checked into the Marriott Aloft on 36th street. Nice hotel, large room, great location, cool vibe. Enjoyed a super dinner at El Pollo Inka, had a nice sleep. This morning at shortly after 11:00 am we arrived at the Miami cruise...
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October 8,2023 We woke to another glorious day in Venice and enjoyed another yummy breakfast. Burano is an island on the northern part of the lagoon. If you’ve been paying attention, you know I’ve been purging our belongings for a few years now…trying to fully embrace a minimalist lifestyle…not shopping… paring down my wardrobe, giving...
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October 7,2023 We were talking to friends last week who’d spent two days in Venice last summer…they do not share our enthusiasm for this beautiful city. I think the issue might be that they had just two days, and one day was spent visiting Murano and Burano…leaving only one day for Venice proper. I am...
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October 6,2023 We said goodbye to Symphony after breakfast in our room. We disembarked around 9:00 am and boarded one of the Crystal provided busses to the Venice maritime terminal. The ride was marred by the continued violent coughing and sniffling of a passenger just two seats in front of us. After about five minutes,...
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October 5,2023 We tendered to the lovely port of Opatija…our last port on this wonderful cruise. As we left the tender, I turned around and snapped this photo of Symphony. Although the port is tiny, it is beautiful. We arrived a few minutes before our guide, so I parked Tim and walked around for bit....
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