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Montego Bay (Jamaica) & another sea day

Posted on 05/03/2018 by Geoff

We docked around 0900hrs and as we weren’t on a tour we didn’t rush too much. After a fairly light breakfast we left the ship, boarded the port shuttle to the terminal and made our way out. It was total … Continue reading →

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The Panama Canal & another sea day.

Posted on 03/03/2018 by Geoff

There was great excitement on board this morning as there are may folk who haven’t transited the Panama Canal and they were up early to be in position to see everything. We weren’t in any hurry; we decided to get … Continue reading →

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Manta (Ecuador) and sea day

Posted on 01/03/2018 by Geoff

Today is our only visit to Ecuador so we made the effort to get away fairly early. Again this town is a lively commercial port with a lot of development taking place, but the their main industry here is “Tuna”, … Continue reading →

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Callao, (Peru) and more

Posted on 27/02/2018 by Geoff

Firstly, we are officially in the tropics again, we went across the Tropic of Capricorn sometime during the night. We awoke to find we were moored onto the commercial dock in Callao, the port area of Lima; Peru’s Capital city … Continue reading →

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Cruising up towards Panama

Posted on 26/02/2018 by Geoff

This morning, when we woke we were docked in the port of Arica, “The City of Eternal Spring”.   This city nestles between the Pacific Ocean and the Atacamo Desert and is the northernmost tip of Chile, 12 miles from Peruvian … Continue reading →

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Queen Victoria and a couple of ports off call

Posted on 23/02/2018 by Geoff

Having managed to get the pickup time changed, we were determined not to keep the driver waiting, so were all breakfasted, packed up, and waiting in the lobby by 0945. The driver arrived as arranged at 1000hrs, loaded and on … Continue reading →

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