Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise We left Haifa late, after 11:30 pm and traveled the short distance down the Israel Coast to Ashdod, arriving the next morning around 7AM. Ashdod is another commercial port where there isn’t much available nearby. But since…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise We arrived in Haifa early this morning, but before we could go ashore we would have to go thru a face to face immigration check with Israeli officials. The check would take place on Deck 5 in…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise Today will be my 5th Suez Canal Transit, but my first on something other than an US Navy Aircraft Carrier when we went back and forth between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean 30 years ago aboard…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise The ship docked in Salalah about 30 minutes early, but we had decided to make this port a sea day so the early arrival didn’t mean much to us today. I did considerable research into this port…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise We were scheduled to arrive in Muscat at 8 am but by 7:30 we were tied up at the pier and people started to leave the ship. The temps were supposed to hit the high eighties but…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise We spent the morning unpacking and getting everything organized in our cabin after our trip to India and didn’t leave the ship until after 2pm. Our plan was to ride two loops of the Dubai Big Bus…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise Our room in the Hyatt was facing Port Rashid so we would be able to watch as the Amsterdam arrived in Dubai early this morning. I set my alarm for 6 am to be up in time…
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Click “Show More Posts” to show all the links to the other posts for the 2016 World Cruise Feeling refreshed we meet the rest of our travelers in the lobby at noon for our transfer to the airport for our flight to Dubai leaving at 4:10 PM. The airport was only 12 mile away, but…
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