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DAY 38

April 17th Reunion VOLCANOES!!!!!! This was they day I had been waiting for. Karen had organized for Stan, Brian and I to do a tour of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Reunion with Evarun Excursions. I am a HUGE volcano fan, so I had been...

Apr 20, 2018 6 min read

DAY 37

April 16th Port Louis, Mauritius When I went to get my usual breakfast of toast and Marmite, horrors, there was no Marmite! The waiter told me that he thought they had run out of Marmite, but there was plenty of Vegemite instead. I gave him a...

Apr 19, 2018 5 min read

DAY 36

April 15th At Sea It was a dark and stormy day. When I awoke this morning we were finally experiencing some pitching and rolling. Nothing too major, but at least we know we are on the ocean and not on a river cruise. It really had been feeling...

Apr 17, 2018 4 min read

DAY 35

April 14th At Sea I do need sea days to recuperate from shore days. This one turned out to be fairly typical with us spending the morning in the Commodore Club watching us sail through the passing rainsqualls and attending lectures. I had been...

Apr 15, 2018 5 min read

DAY 34

April 13th Mahe, Seychelles When I woke up this morning we were sailing past the smaller islands in the Seychelles. It looked like a beautiful sunny day, and I was soon up and ready to go. Soon after the ship docked we met up with Dan and Irene...

Apr 14, 2018 5 min read

DAY 33

April 12th At Sea Yay! The internet is working again today. Although we had the crossing of the line ceremony yesterday, we actually crossed the equator today. Welcome to the southern hemisphere. We went to see Jenny Bond’s talk in the morning –...

Apr 14, 2018 4 min read

DAY 32

April 11th At Sea High Risk Area Security Precautions Day When we left Penang we noticed that the ship’s anti pirate equipment had been installed on deck 3. Today’s Daily Programme advised us that from this evening until after departure from...

Apr 12, 2018 4 min read

DAY 31

April 10th At Sea It was a bright and sunny day, but we had other things on our mind. Having rashly had the bright idea to give the Cruise Critic crowd a talk on safaris, we now had to work on it. But first Brian went to the talk on an...

Apr 12, 2018 3 min read

DAY 30

April 9th Colombo Tuk Tuk Tuking Along My favorite blogger, Roscoe, had described his interesting time in Sri Lanka on a tuk tuk tour. It sounded like a great way to spend the day sight seeing. Evana from Cruise Critic did some serious research,...

Apr 11, 2018 8 min read

DAY 29

April 8th At Sea A day Full of Thunderstorms. We were confused about what the time was when we woke up as our phones had adjusted to the new time zone, but out watches haven’t. Even though I have Bluetooth and an app on my phone to keep my watch...

Apr 11, 2018 2 min read

DAY 28

April 7th At Sea The Continued No Internet Day We may have gained an hour, but try telling that to my FitBit. Despite the fact that my cell phone, to which it is linked, has been able to get the time right, my FitBit is still an hour out of...

Apr 10, 2018 4 min read

DAY 27

April 6th Penang There was a delay with the ship being cleared again. Seeing as we were in Malacca yesterday, and as we have been hugging the coastline, I doubt we have been out of Malaysian waters, but it seems that the authorities delayed...

Apr 10, 2018 6 min read