by Safarigal | Jul 6, 2026 | Tall Ships and Tall Tides
July 4th, 2026 New York Today is the day! At 6:00 AM we left Brooklyn and moved to the Hudson River to position ourselves to watch the tall Ships parade. We weren’t the only ship on the move, the US navy aircraft carrier, the Nimitz, was also on the move and...
by Safarigal | Jul 4, 2026 | Tall Ships and Tall Tides
July 3rd, 2026 New York It was a HOT day in New York. We got up early so we could visit the nearest CVS pharmacy to purchase items that had somehow been missed getting packed a few days ago. I love the food from New York food trucks, but it was too early for hot dogs,...
by Safarigal | Jun 30, 2026 | Tall Ships and Tall Tides
Since returning from our great Danube cruise last summer, we have had the joy of sailing on 5 Seabourn cruises – 2 in New England and Canada, 2 in French Polynesia, and one repositioning from Barcelona to Puerto Rico. They were all really wonderful, but something was...
by Safarigal | Jul 30, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
London July 26th, 2025 It seems like we had just gone to bed, and then it was time to wake up and get ready for our taxi at 4:45. It was already feeling strange that we didn’t have any arrangements to meet up with our family for breakfast. They would have to eat...
by Safarigal | Jul 28, 2025 | Across the Atlantic and Down the Danube
Budapest, Hungary July 25th, 2025 Kane had said that we should all be up bright and early not to miss the beauty of us sailing in to Budapest. We must have been in a hurry as we sped past an Amawaterways ship. At first it just looked like we were sailing through...
