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January 9, 2025 Hello Readers, Today we did the Panama Canal transit. This was my fourth time doing the crossing from the Atlantic side to the Pacific side. You readers can go back in the blog to previous years and read more about the crossing. We entered the first locks at the Atlantic side aroundContinue reading “Panama Canal”

January 8, 2025 This morning we anchored at Puerto Limon in Costa Rica. As we had visited this city before, we took our time to have breakfast before we walked off the boat. It was pouring rain and 28 deg C when we arrived on the dock. We were greeted on the dock by aContinue reading “Puerto Limon, Costa Rica”

January 7. 2025 This morning we arrived at Georgetown, the Capital of the Cayman islands. After getting tendered from the ship to the shore we were deciding where to go. The waterfront streets are lined with multiple souvenir and T-shirts shops. Georgetown is littered with banks including our Canadian big banks. We flagged down aContinue reading “Georgetown, Cayman Islands”

We were allowed to set foot on the ship by 12:00 Noon. It is truly amazing that they can turn the ship around that quick, as it had come in from the previous cruise at 7 this morning. The afternoon we spent touching base with passengers and crew we met on our previous cruise. 7Continue reading “Start of the Journey”

Welcome back previous readers and new readers and followers. We have arrived in Fort Lauderdale Florida after a brief layover in Mesa Arizona to ring in the new year. For the first time we flew with JetBlue, which was surprisingly very good. Excellent service and a low price. Today we spent the day shopping forContinue reading “2025 Cor and Carol World Cruise (proloque)”

May 5, 2023 At 7 AM this morning we arrived in Praia Di Victoria on the Island of Teceira in the Azores. We had an early breakfast and got on the bus by 7:30 this morning for a trip over the Island. Our first stop was on a hillside just outside the City, a goodContinue reading “Praia Di Victoria, Azores, Portugal”

May 4, 2023 Around 8 AM we anchored on the pier in the port of Punta Delgada on the Island of San Miguel. There are 69,000 inhabitants on the island, apparently there are the same amount of cows. Dairy is big business here. Other means of income are, fishing and tourism. Our first glance fromContinue reading “Punta Delgada, Azores”

May 1, 2023 Today we set foot on shore in our second stop in Ireland, a port called Cobh (cove) this is Town of 12000 located on an island in the Cork City harbour . Cork itself has a population of 240K and is the second largest City in Ireland. Many large   international companies haveContinue reading “Cobh (Cork) Ireland”

April 30, 2023 We sailed into Dun Laoghaire early this morning. Dun is a suburb from Dublin. This port is also a tender port. Smaller cruise ships are still able to land in Dublin. Also, apparently the dock in Dublin is owned by a Chinese firm and the cost to dock there are very highContinue reading “Dun Laoghaire (Dublin) Ireland”

April 29, 2023 This morning we moored in the bay outside the port of Oban in Scotland. Today’s port is another tender port. Around 10:00 Am we left the ship to catch the tender boat to the port, about a 20 min boat ride.For today we didn’t book a tour, but decided to explore onContinue reading “Oban, Scotland”