Tweet Tuesday, July 28, 2009 After three wonderful nights in scorching Vancouver (see prior blog post), it was finally time to embark Hapag-Lloyd’s 8,378 gt, 200 passenger MV HANSEATIC. Not only would this be my first time on the five star German expedition ship, it would be my first ever…
Tweet Saturday, June 25, 2009 I left relatively cool Southern California this morning for sweltering Vancouver, British Columbia, which had just been kissed with an extraordinary heatwave that promised to break records over the next week. I would have three days prior to boarding Hapag-Lloyd’s five star expedition cruise ship…
Tweet Cruise Report: BAHAMAS CELEBRATION by Michael Bennett, July 2009 Port Everglades, FL – Nassau Paradise Island, Bahamas BAHAMAS CELEBRATION departing Port Everglades Let’s say you’re a woman of a “certain age”. You’ve spent your entire life selflessly looking after others, carrying their considerable burdens, trekking back and forth across…