After an enjoyable (though sleepless for me) flight, we landed in Rome about forty minutes early. Since we’d had different travel itineraries originally, we split up with Mom and Dad again, as they had pre-arranged transfers with NCL. I’d debated taking public transport, but it’s a bit of a hassle from the airport to cruise […]
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Day #1: To Miami
Posted in Florida on Feb 28th, 2014
Our flight schedule is a bit unusual. To make best use of our SkyMiles, we’re flying not from Tampa but from Miami. So, we had to start our journey to Europe by driving four hours to Miami International Airport. The day was rather hectic for Libby and me with our work obligations, as well as […]
Today, we returned to Cozumel for the third time. We were first here on a cruise in 1997 aboard Norwegian’s tiny Leeward on our honeymoon. We didn’t like it then. We returned in 2008 on our inaugural Thanksgiving cruise, and we found it more appealing. Today, we enjoyed it a bit more. So, it seems […]
I’ll post more fully later, but here’s a photo from our beach club in Costa Maya: Continuation… I don’t normally do a lot of advance planning, especially for Caribbean ports of call. For Costa Maya, I’d read in our Frommer’s guide that there was a nice private beach right by the pier, as well as […]
We dropped anchor this morning 5 miles off the coast of Belize City. The water is very shallow here. So, the cruise ships (four in total today) dock off shore and passengers tender in on fairly large tender boats. We undertook this exercise and then explored the port area of Belize City (nothing too exciting […]