Oh, the places I will go …

I tell people I have never been to Hawaii. That is not technically true. I stopped there once for a few hours and a bite to eat on a trip...

We are now headed out into the Pacific after spending three days in the United States - one in San Diego and two in San Francisco. The...

There is a surreal aspect to visiting Mexico. On the one hand, there is so much violence taking place throughout the country - including...

When the Spanish decided to colonize the Americas, they did not waste any time. On Saturday we landed on the west coast of Guatemala and...

I woke Thursday to see the beaches of Puntarenas, Costa Rica fanning out on both sides of the ship. They are long stretches of dark...

I am free! It really feels like this vacation is just starting ... after missing the Caribbean and Colombia. But the best part lies...

I have spent the past week in solitary confinement. It's a 'nice' solitary confinement. The food is good. The guest services folks have...

So the good news is that I have been moved from my inside cabin to a balcony suite. The bad news is that I am being forced to isolate for...

We are getting closer to the Caribbean. On Monday we will be in Barbados ... and I will be snorkelling. The Windsor sisters and I had our...

I had no expectations of Madeira ... so I was absolutely gobsmacked by its beauty. Green mountains of banana plantations and vineyards...

The days at sea fly by quickly. The past two mornings I have had a very modest breakfast. The buffet certainly offers everything you...

I had planned to spend a full day strolling around Las Ramblas, the old city of Barcelona that I love so much. I had planned to walk...

This blog is going to be sadly lacking in photos because my only goal today was to get on this ship. So, in that respect, mission...

I am going around the world. On a boat. And then I am spending a month with family and friends in Portugal. Let me start by saying that I...

We all got up reasonably early at the beautiful retreat in Tuscany (where the rooster crows at 5 am sharp) that had beeen rented by...

Final day in Tuscany and we knew we had to see as much as we possibly could in the hours we have left in Italy. So we started out with...

We started our day with a great breakfast made by Marshall who is Cyn’s brother Robert’s partner. I normally don’t eat breakfast but I...

Cyn did not sleep well (it was her turn on the worst bed (which, in Rimini was the pull out couch in the living room of the apartment...

This blog will probably be a little shorter than its predecessors because, frankly, we spent the better part of the afternoon just lying...

We raced out of Venice early in the morning because we had to get to a 10 am food tour in Bologna, which was a two-hour drive away....