Abidjan, Ivory Coast December 14th, 2024 We arrived in the middle of the cargo port, so there were no facilities there for cruise ships. We decided to take the ship’s tour to Banco Park. At the start of the excursion, we had a tour of downtown...
At Sea December 13th, 2024 A quiet day at sea. We attended several talks. I must say the standard of the “conversations” has been excellent, and the talks we may have missed are available on the TV in our suite, so we are getting well educated....
At Sea December 12th, 2024 As promised when we woke up this morning the ship had been transformed into a Christmas wonderland with Christmas trees and gingerbread houses popping up all over the ship. However, no Christmas lights yet, that will...
At Sea December 11th, 2024 I stopped by Seabourn Square while Brian was at breakfast. I had forgotten what a lovely place it was. There were people there drinking coffee, reading, chatting, staring out to sea, and doing puzzles. It had a great...
At Sea December 10th, 2024 Today we crossed the magnetic equator. What is this you may ask? Well, I must admit I had never thought about it before. Luckily there was a write up on it in the Herald. Another name for it is the aclinic line. Unlike...
Praia, Cape Verde Islands December 9th, 2024 This was our second port in the Cape Verde Islands. Praia is the capital and largest city in Cape Verde and is on Santiago Island. My first impression of Praia wasn’t that great Not a pretty harbor....
Mindelo, Cape Verde Islands December 8th, 2024 For our visit to Mindelo, we had initially thought that we would get off the ship and find a taxi driver to take us around the island, but then we thought that we would probably get more out of a...
At Sea December 7th, 2024 It’s hard to believe that had this been a 7 day cruise we would be disembarking today. I am only getting into the routine of life at sea, I would hate to have to disembark already. Thank goodness we have weeks of...
At sea December 6th, 2024 At least today was less strenuous than yesterday. It was very cold in the Observation Bar this morning, so we chose to move to the Club. So instead of the view of where we are going, we had the view of where we had...
At sea December 5th, 2024 There was a bridge tour today, but we were too late signing up for it, so we hope there will be another one. I do love bridge tours and seeing how the electronics on the bridge have changed so dramatically over the...
At Sea December 4th, 2024 Aaaaah! The first of 4 sea days before we get to the Cape Verde islands. It was another busy day. I brought along my cross stitch tablecloth in the hope that I could finish it on this cruise, and it hasn’t seen the...
Tangier, Morocco December 3rd, 2025 Our first African port. Again the weather didn’t look too promising when we arrived, but later we had brilliant sunshine. We had organized a private tour to Chefchaouen, the blue city. We were meeting our...