by The Inside Cabin | Mar 25, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 80 March 25 – At Sea Coffee Chat Nyron, the shore excursions manager, was the guest at Coffee Chat this morning. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, he has since moved to South Africa where his wife is from. He has been with HAL since 1996 and got his start as a...
by The Inside Cabin | Mar 24, 2018 | Indian Ocean, Seychelles, Victoria, Mahe, 2018 Grand World Voyage
Day 79 March 24 – Victoria, Seychelles It was still early, around 9 AM, when the Seychelles came into view. The most prominent feature at this point were the 3 large windmills situated along the waterfront. The weather was quite pleasant out at sea, with a nice...
by The Inside Cabin | Mar 23, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 78 March 23 – At Sea Another lazy day at sea as we continued sailing across the Indian Ocean enroute to the Seychelles where we will arrive tomorrow. There was a crew emergency drill today at 9:30 AM which caused Coffee Chat to be cancelled. The ship will have a...
by The Inside Cabin | Mar 22, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
This is post 83 of 121 in the series “2018 World Knitting Cruise” The Journey Begins – The 2018 Grand World Voyage Leaving San Diego for Fort Lauderdale Arriving in Fort Lauderdale and our first day Fort Lauderdale – Day 2 Day 1 – The...
by The Inside Cabin | Mar 21, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 76 – March 21 – At Sea Craig Richard was the guest at Coffee Chat this morning. He put on a great performance with his saxophone last evening. He once played with Kenny G at the Miami Jazz Festival. Today we learned that he was a contestant on American...
by The Inside Cabin | Mar 20, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Asia
Day 75 – March 20 – Columbo, Sri Lanka Colombo is not one of my favorite ports and I suspect that the main reason HAL stops here at all is to provide a launch point for their overland excursions to the Taj Mahal. I considered doing an independent overland to...
