World Cruise

After Imodium, a good night, and a day of “plain” food everything checked out this morning (Friday the 16th) and I was released from captivity in my cabin. Just to be certain I stayed in much of today except for some routine tasks. One of those was a load of laundry to wash everything I had on the past several days and the administrative task of getting the medical department to approve a refund for the two excursions I missed that were not my fault. They did and the excursion desk processed the refunds. That’s something I did not expect and it was greatly appreciated.

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While I missed going up into the Burj Khalifa, I did not miss seeing it in a way most people don’t: at eye level in the middle.

[Read more…] about Flight Over Dubai – Plus

Sometimes it’s amazing how things work out. As I mentioned Indian revenge kept me in my cabin yesterday and cancelled my excursion for today to the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. Well, I had a good night last night and was released from house arrest this morning as we were still approaching Dubai.

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The ship stopped twice in India with a day at sea between the ports of Cochin and Mumbai. There was an excursion I took that had us disembark in Cochin, travel to Dehli via air, travel to Agra the second day by train with return to Delhi, and travel by air from Dehli to Mumbai to rejoin the ship. Of course, while in Agra we visited the Taj Mahal; the main sight to see during the three days.

[Read more…] about India

It’s Friday, 2 March as I write this and we arrived in Singapore as the sun started to come up. Singapore is quite close to the Equator so it was automatically both hot and humid; even at sunrise. While I was out the temperature hovered around 90F and the humidity matched it at around 90%. When I first took the camera from the stateroom to the outside to get a sunrise photo it immediately fogged up as the water in the air condensed on the cooler lens filter surface. Very happy I thought to take lens cleaning solution and lint-free pads to use to clean the lens and other sensitive surfaces.

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We’re now in Western Australia and the weather is slowly turning around; our interaction with the cyclone is getting less. Esperance was a nice day with clouds and Fremantle/Perth today was blue sky and warm but comfortable.

[Read more…] about Esperance and Fremantle