by Safarigal | Jul 6, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
July 5th, 2025 At Sea If it’s a sea day, there must be Zumba. Actually no. The physical exertion and sweaty body experience have been replaced by a relaxed guided meditation session. Thinking this would be a popular switch, I got to the Queens Room early, but there...
by Safarigal | Jul 5, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
July 4th, 2025 Boston Looking out of our stateroom this morning we actually had a view! They were in the process of lowering the lifeboats and brilliant sunshine was streaming into the room. I suppose they were checking out that the mechanism for lowering the...
by Safarigal | Jul 4, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
July 3rd, 2025 At Sea We were awakened by the foghorn in the early hours of the morning. Being near the front of the ship is a bit of a mixed blessing. Yes, we do hear the foghorn, but I actually quite like its mournful sound. When we got up, we were still in dense...
by Safarigal | Jul 3, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
July 2nd 2025 Newport, RI Newport is a tender port, and you needed tickets to get onto the tenders, so we decided to spend the morning in the Commodore Club and only go ashore once the crowds had dissipated. It is so easy to go up one flight of stairs to the Commodore...
by Safarigal | Jul 2, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
New York July 1st, 2025 Today’s the day! We arrived at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at 1:30, we were directed straight to security, we filled out Canadian customs forms, had our photos taken again, and in no time we were on the escalator and on our way to the...
