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    I’ll limit this blog to describing my first impressions of my new environment, the  good, the weird and the bad. First, Explora 1 Journey is a brand new ship about the same...

Last chapter – Viking Sky 2023/2024 World Cruise Sadly, we are on day 135 of our 138 day cruise. We have travelled 35,362 miles, that’s about 1.6 times around the equator. We visited 22...

  My Thorough Surgeon   Greetings from eventful, Agadir, Morocco. I did not know Agadir existed and planned staying onboard while other passengers were excited about their various excursions to this resort destination. It...

    Hello from Null Island Hi friends, it is now day 120 out of our 138 day cruise, and a bitter sweet 18 days left of our journey. Bitter because we are leaving...

  After leaving beautiful Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, we hit the expected rough seas with 30 ft waves before we made it to South Africa with its many big game preserves and...

Happy Easter from the Indian ocean, east of Madagascar and two remote but very different Islands, Mauritius and Réunion. Port Louis, Mauritius’ capital, like many other Asian cities is a melting pot of many...

    Sri Lanka, is a small independent island south east of India and known for its exports of tea and cinnamon. My excursion was essentially a Tuk-tuk ride around the city of Colombo....

  Phuket is one of Thailand’s largest islands and known for its many beaches. It’s white sandy beaches looked beautiful, however images of the 2004 Tsunami which killed over 5000 flooded my imagination. Tsunami...

    Singapore is the world’s only island city state. It transformed itself from a small third world island to one of the worlds most technologically advanced cities in a few short years. It’s...

  We sailed from Indonesia towards the equator and Vietnam. I had not been to this region of the world and had no preconceived expectations. The increasing heat and humidity were expected but I...