Trip across North America and back
We had a late breakfast and arrived at Cádiz around noon. Our walking tour of Cádiz started around 1 PM. We first got to the monument to the first Spanish Constitution (they have several more with the most recent from when Genalisimo Franco died) and then started walking through the town past old fortifications. This Continue Reading
I haven’t taken pictures in the last few days. Tomorrow we will arrive at Cádiz. Here is the location as of 3 PM, Wednesday. Anyway, Tuesday we had several lectures as well as playing bridge. We had a Port Talk about Cádiz, a lecture by the historian on beer, wine and spirits, and a discussion Continue Reading
34°N 22°W Proceeding toward arriving at Cádiz on Wednesday. In UK summer time zone now, will go final one hour ahead to European Summer Time (GMT+2) probably this evening. Another laid back day. We had an appointment with the cruise consultant on the ship, and actually played a game of old fashioned Scrabble, which we Continue Reading
More of an adventure walking around the deck! Promenade deck closed. Otherwise a similar day to the others. Morning lecture was more on Cold War espionage. Fascinating. He showed pictures of various spy ships, including the Pueblo, but didn’t show COBRA Judy, where I spent time in California and Japan. We had lunch in the Continue Reading
We got a notice today that the Viking Sea has been fighting rough seas and has “technical issues with one of the four engines”. So we will not be going to Madeira and will arrive in Cádiz later than expected. So we will be going for the next four days on the ocean followed by Continue Reading
We are now at 25 degrees north, 45 degrees west. I don’t think they will do a spring ahead this evening, since we are still a few days out of Madeira, our next stop. No pictures today, sorry. So in the morning, I went to another WWII intelligence briefing, while Susan went to an embroidery Continue Reading
We are continuing across the Atlantic. The sea is a bit rougher, but nothing like the Observation Island, the Cobra Judy ship I went on in the late 80’s. The enrichment lectures and entertainment are much more than the river cruises and more than the last cruise we took in 2018 on a Viking Ocean Continue Reading
I didn’t take any pictures of land today, as we are in the middle of the Atlantic. The big change was springing ahead on the clock one hour, which meant setting our iPhone to Halifax as the location, since Apple doesn’t allow you to say GMT-3. This interesting problem will continue as we progress eastward. Continue Reading
We cruised overnight and arrived in St. Martin around 7:30 in the morning. After the boat docked and we had breakfast, we left for a walk into Phillipsburg. We had been in St. Martin several times in the past with the Burnses. Susan had lost one earring from a lovely pearl set and we hoped Continue Reading
We start the cruise on Monday the 21st of March. Actually we leave Logan Airport at 11:58 PM on Sunday and arrive in San Juan at an early hour. We got the limo to the airport and arrived in plenty of time for our midnight flight. We arrived in San Juan around 4 and were Continue Reading