Tagged: Crystal Serenity

Media viral vortex: shelf life of a story

My work has been sucked into a media viral vortex. When I met Lee Wachstetter aboard the Crystal Serenity in 2012 I was captivated with her story. She loves to dance, and...

Cruising with a butler

Papa, our butler aboard the Crystal Serenity, serves afternoon shrimp and champagne in our penthouse suite. It’s almost embarrassing to reveal how much I loved having a butler aboard our Crystal Serenity...

Reading Travel: in print or online?

A string quartet tunes up and cruise staff prepares a buffet of sweets for the Mozart Tea aboard the Crystal Serenity They tell me people prefer reading online to the newspaper, but...

Catching Mediterranean sardines for lunch

A small wooden shed holds nets that are lowered  into the sea to catch sardines near the mouth of the Po River off Ravenna, Italy. Maybe it’s my Norwegian heritage or perhaps...

By sea to Montenegro

The Crystal Serenity is now at anchor in the  Bay of Kotor, outside the walled town of the same name in Montenegro. It’s one of the world’s newest countries, established in 2006...

Live web cam on Crystal Serenity

On Sunday I’ll board the Crystal Serenity in Venice for cruise of the southern Mediterranean.  Ive been following the ship through its live webcams which gives views from the bridge, starboard, port...