by The Inside Cabin | Apr 12, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 98 – At Sea – April 12th 4 AM wake up call For the second time this cruise, we had an actual first stage alarm. You may recall that the first one was during our late seating dinner back on 10 March. That turned out to be caused by some residual smoke/fire...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 97 – At Sea – April 11th Today is the first of five consecutive sea days which we always enjoy. A big part of our World Cruise are all the activities that we take part in the ship. I was still feeling a little crummy from yesterday so I stayed in the cabin...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 10, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Africa, Angola, Luanda
Day 96, April 10th – Luanda, Angola The city skyline came into view around 7 AM as we closed on the port and saw that it was surprisingly modern. A couple tugs that came out to greet us but we learned later the pilot was a no-show so Capt. Jonathan came...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 9, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 95 – At Sea – April 9th Coffee Chat Grand Voyages, particularly the Grand World Voyage, have more onboard activities than your normal Holland America cruise. One of those is resident clergy. Today during Coffee Chat, all three of the clergy were...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 8, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 94 – At Sea – April 8th Walvis Bay turned out to be a very nice port, even though we didn’t do very much except visit the mall and the Lagoon Waterfront. On a future visit we look forward to taking advantage of other opportunities. The outlook for our...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 7, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Africa, Namibia, Walvis Bay
Day 93, Walvis Bay, Namibia – April 7th Namibia looked bleak from the ship as the first lines went across to start our mooring to the commercial wharf here in Walvis Bay. Off in the distance I could make out some of the sand dunes that are a feature of some of...
