It’s all wine and song until it’s not. Last evening as we sat waiting for the second show – around 10:30 – cruise director Russ made the announcement that five passengers tested positive and he requested that we all return to our rooms. Shortly thereafter another announcement came over the intercom informing us that all...
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Before we retired, we were up at 5:30 a.m. five days a week. In early retirement, when not traveling, I’d set the alarm for seven and head off to an eight o’clock yoga or exercise class. That extra hour and a half of sleep felt like such a luxury. As we moved deeper into retirement...
Continue readingTravel in the time of Covid. Whenever I refer to “last year” I am usually thinking of 2019. Is it because my mind wants to erase 2020? Or because we had so little social interaction? Some other reason? We were dining in Prego last evening with friends we met in 2019 on Crystal Serenity and...
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Summer 2021…second summer of the pandemic. We left our home in Sarasota on May 15…returning to Long Island, just in time to catch our lovebug Charlotte’s Lacrosse team make a run for the County Championship. What an absolute joy to watch these young athletes compete at such a high level. Here’s Charlotte after a game...
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Our 10 days on Endeavor went by in a flash. We spent our last day driving around Heimaey. The rain and wind only slightly impacted our enjoyment of Herjolfur in Vestmannaeyjar. It’s the site of an annual Burning Man type of gathering. Thousands of folks assemble for an enormous bon fire and a weekend of...
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Our first visit to Heimaey occurred in 2015 on a Crystal Symphony transatlantic crossing. On that day, we tendered to shore, walked around the town and lava fields and returned to the ship after a few hours. It was cold, rainy and dreary and we had no clue about the Island, its history or how...
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It’s been four weeks since our kayak misadventure and I’m still struggling with how to characterize it. This was only our second time in a kayak and most likely our last. I’m certainly not a quitter and I have a suspicion that if we could just practice on a very calm, windless waterway (or in...
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One of my favorite experiences onboard is waking up and opening the drapes. I have phone in hand to memorialize the beginning of the day. Here are the first photos from our visit to Seydisfjordur. Another lovely breakfast and we were off on a zodiac to explore this beautiful fjord. Stunning scenery and I’m not...
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We awoke in another beautiful fjord. I took this photo from the balcony as we ate breakfast. After breakfast I set out with a small group of shipmates on a tender for the village of Vopnafjorour. It’s a tiny fishing village with just 600 or so residents and no real visitors to speak of. Just...
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Tim was up and out on the veranda early on our 5th day aboard Endeavor. That’s Grimsey Island and the Arctic Circle in front of Timmy. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d ever have the opportunity to cross the Arctic Circle. But we did. Not once, but according to Captain Larson, we...
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