It’s delightful. Attentive service. A big cabin. A really roomy shower. Food’s delicious. Mind-boggling expensive. On Princess, I squirm at more than $2,500 per person. This was well over three times that. But you really can’t compare the two. One is mass market. The other is far more bespoke. We started with a hair raising … Continue reading American Cruise Lines on the Hudson
“Dress for the sun.” Well, hell, that’s a rather broad spectrum of attire. My kayaking gear (SPF 50 capris and long sleeved shirt), ready to evaporate any manner of splashes whilst I paddled? A breezy summer dress with strappy sandals? Butch shorts and t-shirt with a baseball cap? This simply wasn’t enough information. “It’s not … Continue reading Beloved wouldn’t tell me what we were doing for my birthday.
A hundred and forty nine smackers each, with a capacity of 20 means about three grand per seating. Not bad, but they certainly spend on the food, staff and visuals (and the booze), so it’s sure not all profit. We checked in, had our photos taken and were offered cocktails before being taken in - … Continue reading Review of “360, An Extraordinary Experience” on Discovery Princess
I love trying new aircraft. I’m not much of a mechanics fanatic, but I do like seeing the setup of airplane and how they configure seating, etc. When we were looking to fly to London I jumped at the chance to try the A380. After its release in 2007, this 500+ seater didn’t fare well … Continue reading This thing is a beast… a review of the A380.
We arrived in Santa Cruz de Tenerife without plans or reservations for a tour… the only thing that appealed to me was riding around on large motorized trikes but that was only available if we landed at the southern end of the island (we were on the north). We saw nothing that related to the … Continue reading I kept circling back to the world’s worst air disaster…
Casablanca, Morocco, has a similar population size to the city of Los Angeles - almost four million people - if you believe the internet, but our tour guide said it was six. Whatever. It’s a very large city. I gotta admit, I was a little intimidated by getting off the ship there, although I’ve always … Continue reading I was more than a little hesitant…
Well, we made it to Cagliari, located in the southern part of the island of Sardinia, Italy. It wasn’t terribly far from Rome/Civitavecchia, so not an impressive feat. Since we hadn’t planned anything (kinda typical of us, if there’s nothing that hops out at us, we just walk into port and see what happens), we … Continue reading Ah, but you don’t go…
Oh, batchit, I thought, as blind (sans glasses), I started running the water in the tub for a shower. One extremely leggy arachnid struggled to get out of the flow, but couldn’t as the stopper was firmly stuck. It was our first morning in a new AirBnB and I wasn’t familiar with how the stopper … Continue reading The spider screamed.
Finally. Finally I have reached the point in my life when I can fly international business class. AAAAAAHHHH… Okay, we started last summer when we upgraded to business on Air New Zealand. No shade on the Kiwis, but the business class on their tired aircraft was nice, no doubt, but it was showing its age. … Continue reading American Flagship Business Class LAX – LHR
Sitting in bed early this Sunday morning, I was looking at the website for the local parish church (we’re visiting family this week). They said their 9am was “a short, traditional service with a ten minute sermon and familiar hymns”. Ooooooookay, that is MY kind of event. Short, traditional with hymns I’ve known since preschool … Continue reading Well. Not my style, really.
Examining Misadventures 