New Royal Caribbean ship will be like nothing else afloat
An observation capsule that extends 300 feet out over the sea will give passengers on the Quantum of the Seas a birds eye view. When Royal Caribbean launches its Quantum of...
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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...
Hitting the wall in Kotor
Passengers step ashore in Montenegro to explore the walled Venetian style city of Kotor, just steps from the pier. Steep cobbled streets have staircases for foot traffic. Despite its pretty scenes,...
Mykonos has reputation as party island
The Aegean is a beautiful blue off Mykonos, a Greek island with a reputation for being a party place, especially in summer. It was September when we arrived on Mykonos and my ...
Small world of Crystal Serenity
These street musicians in Istanbul stopped their lively playing when the call to prayer rang out. When Dave Ashley reached out by email after reading last month’s story about my Mediterranean cruise...
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...
Why cruise Crystal?
We’ve met many passengers who have cruised multiple times with Crystal, shopping among itineraries offered by both the Serenity, which I’m on now, and the Symphony, which I wrote about in 2006....
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