My Most Unusual Purchase: an Authentic Flamenco Dress

When traveling, I like to try to find unusual or unique souvenirs.   One of my most memorable is the Flamenco Dress, (technically a Sevillianas Dress) that I purchased in Cartagena, Spain.
I had been taking a Flamenco dance class for about 5 years back home in AZ.  We were always ordering, making, or buying costumes [...]

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Sharing the World with Your Child Through Cruising

I have written several times in support of parents taking their children out of school for family vacations, especially cruises. Critics have argued that it is irresponsible for children to ever miss even a day of school for any reason other than illness. I have always felt that it is the [...]

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30 Anniversary of the Statendam Christmas Cruise 1980

It is hard for me to believe, but that last Christmas marked the 30th anniversary of one of my favorite cruises, Statendam Christmas 1980.
We have scanned and posted many of our memorable photos from that cruise. You can find it in our Cruise Talk photo gallery
It is hard to say why [...]

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Equinox Cruise Pictures

In case you haven’t had a chance to check out our Gallery pages, I wanted to let you know that we have added our pictures of our Celebrity Equinox cruise from Ft. Lauderdale to the Caribbean. Here’s a link to the newest Gallery Page.
My blogging ended on the second to last day, but [...]

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Continuing our Cruise Aboard the Celebrity Equinox

As I mentioned before the passengers aboard the Equinox all seem to be experts at taking little naps. During our first sea day after the 5 straight port days, there seemed to no end to their creative napping. Now that doesn’t meant there wasn’t any thing else to do aboard the ship, [...]

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St. Maarten/St. Martin

I could easily see why friends of ours go to Dutch St. Maarten year after year. The town of Phillipsburg where the ships dock is one of the cleanest, best set up port towns in the Caribbean, and by far the nicest port in terms the amenities that can be enjoyed in just [...]

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Dominica and Singing Star

The 4th port of our Equinox cruise was Doninica. This is a very lush tropical island with waterfall and rain forests. If you really want to appreciate islands like this for everything they have to offer the best way is to take a guided tour. Many of our shipmates chose [...]

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Equinox in Barbados

Today’s port of call was Barbados, known for its beautiful, beaches, crystal blue waters, and friendly people. I wish I could tell your about a wonderful beach excursion or fabulous island tour, however, again we didn’t venture past the gift shops at the harbor, ……but from the ship we could see that this was [...]

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Equinox Cruise Continues in St. Kitts

Today was our second port of call, Basseterre on the island of St Kitts. Many of the other passengers took island tours that included stops at some of the beautiful resorts and beaches, but for us the day was spent mostly enjoying the beautiful views of the island from the decks of [...]

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Celebrity Equinox Day 4

Today was our first port day , St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. While there were plenty of shore excursion activities from which to choose including beach get-a-ways, snorkeling, island tours and sea life experiences, we choose to enjoy the near empty ship for most of the day, only getting off briefly to pick up [...]

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