You have heard of Maltese dogs, Maltese Falcons, the Knights of Malta, and Maltese Crosses – but where is Malta and what is it? Malta is a small island country (about 20 miles long), south of Italy, about sixty miles from Sicily. Malta is an independent nation and a member of the European Union. The […]
Read moreAs we left Aqaba, Jordan, we were held up waiting for 5 passengers who were still ashore. Normally, the ship will only wait for passengers if they are part of a ship sponsored tour, which these folks were not, but they had gone over to Israel, on their own, and after returning to ship in […]
Read moreAt the top of the Red Sea, the sea is split by the Sinai Peninsula, with the Gulf of Aqaba being the right fork, and the Gulf of Suez being the left fork. At the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, lies the Jordanian city of Aqaba – immediately to the west of Aqaba, lies […]
Read moreAs if the pirates weren’t enough to worry about, it looks like fighting is cranking up in Yemen just as we pass the southern shore on our way to the Red Sea. On board the ship there is a TV channel which shows a map of our current location. It is strange to see a […]
Read moreI suppose that this account of our travels needs to be more than just a collection of photographs and a narrative of fun tours. Not all that happens on a long trip, with 600 hundred people (mostly elderly) is joyous – life’s troubles and tragedies come along on the voyage. Today, we lost one of […]
Read moreToday we moved into the domain of the Arabs – not just a change in sites and scenery but a huge culture change. From the free-wheeling Indians to the austerity and rigidity of the Arabia. From humidity to desert. And from Hindi to Islam. As we sailed into the capital city, Muscat, we were presented […]
Read moreWe scheduled something a bit different for our stop in Mumbai since we have been here before and seen most of the highlights such as Elephanta Island, Dhobi Ghat (the laundry), India Gate, and the Taj Hotel. The ship we took in 2012, the Amsterdam, is in port and is also on her World Cruise, […]
Read moreScheduled to arrive in Cochin, India, on March 18th, the ship celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on the 17th, with green everything. Plus the Maître de, Oscar from Italy, who joins Sally and the knitting crew every day to work on his needlepoint, was decked out in the spirit, and served green champagne after dinner (note […]
Read moreThe Malay Peninsula extends down from Indochina some 700 or 800 miles. At the tip of the peninsula, about 100 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, separated from Malaysia by a river, lies the city-state of Singapore. The Republic of Singapore is about the size of DFW in area with about twice the population. Singapore was founded […]
Read moreThis is our first time to visit Bangkok – we have been to Phuket, Thailand before, over on the Andaman Sea, but never to the capital, Bangkok, which is located at the top of the Gulf of Thailand. Thailand shares the Indo-China Peninsula with Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia. Unlike its neighbors, Thailand was […]
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