Day 97 Sicily is another first for us. All I know about Sicily is that it is the birthplace of the Mafia – home of Don Corleone, and is the first place in Europe that George Patton was successful. If I remember correctly, it is this very town of Messina to which Georgie boy […]
Read moreDay 96 A short overnight trip from Athens brings us to the charming little port of Katakolon, Greece. Where Athens is big and bustling, Katakolon is small and charming – a welcome break. Katakolon looks too small to support any cruise traffic, but they have two huge piers and there were three big ships […]
Read moreDay 94-95 Piraeus is the port for Athens Greece – another place we have never visited before, but since Chandler & Jeff were here in late August & September on their honeymoon, we called upon them for some expert travel advice. Their advice was “stick to the old stuff”, which we pretty much did the first […]
Read morey 92-93 We left Sharm el Sheik and made a fast run up to a point just south of the Suez canal. This was necessary to assure our spot in the convoy in the morning. There are two southbound convoy and one northbound convoy. The first southbound convoy goes halfway and then anchors in one […]
Read moreDay 91 Sharm el Sheik is a small resort town which has been expanded from a small fishing village into a planned resort community, very much in the manner that Cancun was built into a tourist attraction by the Mexican government. Recently, Sharm was in the headlines as the location of the villa in which […]
Read moreDay 90 The port of Safaga is the nearest one to Luxor – our target for the day. Luxor, an important city in ancient Egypt, was the primary center of worship, governance, and residence for some thirty pharaohs from about 2100 BC to approximately 1000 BC (at least as near as I can tell). There are […]
Read moreDay 84-85-86-87-88-89 As we sail westward from India, we pass through an area noted for pirate activity…… If you look on the map you can see all of those friendly countries, such as Somalia, Yemen, etc. If you notice the last picture in Mumbai, they wrapped the ship in razor wire, I guess to […]
Read moreDay 83 Our second day in Mumbai. The name, by the way was changed from Bombay a few years ago. Bombay, loosely translated means “good bay” in Portuguese but most of the local folks we have met, still call it Bombay. Sunrise over Mumbai. It looked like this might be another day filled with transportation […]
Read moreDay 82 Growing up, we called this city Bombay – apparently it is correctly known as Mumbai. The cruise terminal in Mumbai The Gateway to India – built to honor the visit of King George I have to confess to some apprehension about this visit. I guess I have been preconditioned by our earlier […]
Read moreDay 81 Goa, India is our second stop in this country. Goa is much larger and busier than Mangalore and is much more of a tourist center. Today there were eight of us who decided to tour together, and after failing to find a van, we engaged two cars and drivers for the day, which […]
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