We’ve been home for almost 3 months…here’s what we’ve been up to. Well, the Readers Digest version: January 2024 New Year’s Eve with Arlene and Gil at Kojos…pretty chilly. Thank goodness for heat lamps. Most of January was quite cool and we usually requested seats near heaters. Here we are at 1592, it is a...
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January 7, 2024 We’ve been back home in Sarasota for ten days, and I’m just now getting around to culling our Christmas photos. Christmas is the one holiday that I love. Love. Like really love. Over the past few years, we’ve pared down our decorations…but not the fun. We no longer hang outdoor lights, but...
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December 9,2023 We’ve been home for a week … a peaceful quiet week. I walked the beach and our neighborhood… Arriving at Siesta Beach just before 10:00 am last Sunday, I was surprised by two things. First surprise was the Siesta Seafood Festival … I don’t remember it being offered this late in the year....
Continue readingNovember 19,2023 Santo Domingo experienced a severe weather event overnight as evidenced by the dark brown muddy waters and debris floating in the sea as we waited for clearance into the port. Flood waters carried detritus down the Ozama river, depositing large amounts of trash into the waters surrounding the port. Breakfast in our suite,...
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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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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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September 27, 2023 In 2014 we visited the Amalfi coast for the first time. We were in the port of Naples for only one day and our driver fetched us at 7:30 in the morning. Marco crammed so much wonderfulness (I know it’s not a word) into that one day: Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi. Lots...
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September 25,2023 We sailed into the port of Olbia, Sardina to blue skies and some cool ferries. We cancelled our winery tour and stayed on board. I’m sorry to have missed Sardinia, but we’ve realized that we just do not have the stamina for day after day touring…and we do love sea days. We slept...
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September 24, 2023 We were scheduled to be in Sorrento today sailing around Capri, unsettled weather led our Captain to scrap our overnight in Sorrento …disappointed, but, oh well! We slept in, enjoyed breakfast on the balcony and set off to find a taxi to take us to a pizza restaurant that someone on the...
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September 22,2023 So we had a plan for the port of Catania…a drive up to Taormina, a photo op at Castelmola and then lunch at Belmond’s Grand Timeo hotel. Since before Covid, I’ve imagined enjoying a long lunch on the enormous terrace and admiring the view of Mt. Etna. The hotel’s Instagram photos are marketing...
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