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Cruise in the Know With Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising

February 25, 2010

Baby boomer travelers, will a book save you money on cruises? Reading the Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships 2010 might. This Berlitz travel reference book methodically provides details about the cruising industry so that you’ll save money when choosing your next cruise.
Author Douglas Ward spends 200-days-a-year at sea inspecting ships. The result? 271 [...]

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Surviving a Long Cruise

February 11, 2010

Say what? The words “survive” and “cruise” don’t go together. But you’d be surprised at how frequently Alan and I are asked about how we survive our long cruises. After the 52-day cruise from Vancouver to Singapore last year, many of our baby boomer travel friends were curious about spending that much time on the [...]

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Cruising to Nuku Hiva

July 17, 2009

Have you been to Nuku Hiva? Nuka whatta? Part of the Marquesas Islands group in the South Pacific, this is not your typical island in French Polynesia. Instead of resorts with over-the-water-bungalows and broad beaches, baby boomers will find a rugged landscape with horses roaming free and a definite off-the-beaten-path feel.
Most baby boomer travelers who [...]

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Riding the rails in Norway on a cruise excursion gone wrong

February 19, 2009

Baby boomers, don’t you hate it when something goes wrong during your travels? When Alan and I signed up for a “ride the Flam Railway” excursion on our Regent cruise through Norway, we expected spectacular scenery filled with sunshine, wildflowers and waterfalls. What we got was clouds, rain and a never-ending excursion.
Since Regent doesn’t control [...]

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Choosing a guide in Rio de Janeiro

January 28, 2009

When a cruise concludes in Rio de Janeiro, passengers disembark around 9 a.m. but flights to the U.S. don’t leave until early in the evening or even later. What’s a baby boomer traveler to do? Hire a guide.
Alan and I were faced with this dilemma when we sailed from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro on a [...]

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Saturday's scene: Santa sails the Arctic Ocean

December 20, 2008

On a Regent cruise through Norway, I found Santa sailing in the Arctic Ocean.

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Stretch your travel dollars with a repositioning cruise

November 10, 2008

The baby boomers that I know are looking to stretch their travel dollars. Those who can still afford to travel want to make every precious dollar count. Are you discouraged about the recent bad financial news? Don’t give up on travel, instead, find ways to make the most of your available funds.
A repositioning cruise might be [...]

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Saturday's scene: Beyond the Arctic Cirlce

November 8, 2008

I captured this shot as our ship sailed from Longyearbyen, Norway towards the ice pack of the North Pole.

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Learning to paint in Kota Kinabalu

October 30, 2008

Kota Kinabalu. Come on, say it out loud. Don’t you just love the way the exotic sounding name trips off your tongue?
Kota Kinabalu is a city in Sabah on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. Alan and I visited the area on a Regent cruise when we sailed from Sydney, Australia to Hong Kong.
In remote [...]

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Discover fjords, waterfalls and goat farms on a cruise in Norway

September 19, 2008

Do you dream of sailing the fjords of Norway? I did. Then, Alan and I traveled on a 15-day Regent cruise through the land of the midnight sun and my dream came true.

Life on the goat farm

During our journey, we visited the cosmopolitan cities of Oslo and Tromso, hiked the mountain that overlooks historic Bergen, and [...]

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