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If you want to see the world, experience different cultures, and enjoy a very relaxing environment
I suggest that a great approach for accomplishing your objectives, in a very cost effective and comfortable manner, is to
use the capabilities of the cruise industry. My wife and I did not start out with the objective of taking cruise vacations.
We were planning a trip to Europe and my wife expressed a desire to take a cruise that started and finished in the port city
serving Rome and visited Athens and Cairo and other locations rather than visit one or two major
cities. Since we had never been on a cruise before we didn't know if we would like the cruise experience or not.
We elected to take a five day "test cruise" on Royal Caribbean's Enchantment of the Seas in 2006 and we were
very pleased with our "test". We then went on a Mediterranean cruise on Royal Caribbean's Legend
of the Seas in 2007 and had a wonderful trip. We were hooked on cruising as a great way to see the world.
If you want to learn a lot about the details of cruising check out http://www.cruisecritic.com/. If you are really interested in the history of the cruise industry you must read Devils
on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires by Kristoffer A. Garin.
This is a great book that documents the long term corporate battle between Carnival and Royal Caribbean and the evolution
of the cruise industry. We have been on twenty cruises in the Caribbean and Mediterranean
Seas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans since 2006 and we have two additional cruises
booked for 2015 and 2016. I hope to provide my readers with a sampling of the capabilities of
the industry with a review of our past cruises and plans for future cruises. Hopefully, we will meet you on board
one of the cruise ships at some time in the future. My wife and I decided in 2010 that one of our objectives over the next few years would
be to circumnavigate the world via the world's oceans on cruise chips. We also wanted to go through the Suez
and Panama Canals as part of our global journey. We planned to cruise around the world and visit many of the
world's great cities in a series of four cruises. Each cruise was planned to visit at least one port
on one of the other cruises so we could complete the global linkage we desired. We completed the fourth of the
four cruises in the spring of 2014 to complete our global adventure. While it is possible to circumnavigate
the world in a single cruise we decided we would rather break the trip up into sections so we could prepare ourselves for
each part of the global journey. Now that our global cruise adventure is complete we need to decide
where we are headed next! Past Cruises Enchantment of the Seas - Western Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale in 2006 - Ports
of Call: Key West, Florida; Belize; Cozumel, Mexico Legend of the Seas - Eastern Mediterranean
Cruise from Rome (Civitavecchia) in 2007 - Ports of Call: Mykonas, Greece; Kusadesi, Turkey; Rhodes, Greece;
Limassol, Cyprus; Alexandria (Cairo), Egypt; Athens, Greece; Naples, Italy Serenade
of the Seas - Eastern Caribbean Cruise from St. Juan, Puerto Rico in 2008 - Ports of Call: Charlotte Amalie, St.
Thomas, US Virgin Islands; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. John's, Antigua; Castries, St. Lucia; Bridgetown, Barbados Liberty of the Seas - Eastern Caribbean Cruise from Miami in 2009 - Ports of Call: St. Juan, Puerto Rico;
Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Labadee, Haiti; Navigator
of the Seas - Eastern Mediterranean Cruise from Rome (Civitavecchia) in 2009 - Ports of Call: Messina, Sicily, Italy;
Athens, Greece; Kusadasi, Turkey; Crete Adventure of
the Seas - Southern Caribbean Cruise from St. Juan, Puerto Rico in 2010 - Ports of Call: Oranjestad, Aruba; Willemstad,
Curacao; Roseau, Dominica; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands Oasis of the Seas
- Eastern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale in 2010 - Ports of Call: Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands;
Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Nassau, Bahamas Statendam - Panama Canal Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale
to San Diego in 2011 - Ports of Call: Oranjestad, Aruba; Transit Panama Canal; Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica; Huatulco,
Mexico; Alcapulco, Mexico; Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Allure of the Seas - Western Caribbean Cruise
from Ft. Lauderdale in 2011 - Ports of Call: Labadee, Haiti; Costa Maya, Mexico; Cozumel, Mexico Prinsendam - Eastern Mediterranean, Western Mediterranean, Straits of Gibraltar and Transatlantic Cruise from
Rome (Civitavecchia) to Ft. Lauderdale in 2011 - Ports of Call: Pylos, Greece; Alexandria (Cairo), Eqypt; Haifa,
Israel; Kusadasi, Turkey; Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece; Katakolon, Greece; Zakinthos, Greece; Civitavecchia, Italy; La Spezia,
Italy; Barcelona, Spain; Valencia, Spain; Cadiz (Sevilla), Spain; Casablanca, Morocco; Agadir, Morocco; Puerto del Rosario,
Fuerteventura, Canary Islands; San Sebastian de la Gomera, Canary Islands; Half Moon Cay, Bahamas Noordam - Southern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale in 2012 - Ports of Call: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas; Grand
Turk, Turks and Caicos; Samana, Dominican Republic; Kralendijk, Bonaire; Willemstad, Curacao; Oranjestad, Aruba Amsterdam - Asia, Australia and South Pacific Cruise from Seattle to San Diego in 2012-
Ports of Call: Hakodate, Japan; Yokohama/Tokyo, Japan; Kobe, Japan; Nagaski, Japan; Jeju (Cheiji) City, South Korea; Xingang
(Beijing), China; Shanghai, China; Hong Kong, China; Nha Trang, Vietnam; Phy My (Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon), Vietnam; Singapore;
Semarany, Java, Indonesia; Lembar, Lombok, Indonesia; Komodo Island, Indonesia; Darwin, Australia; Hamilton Island, Australia;
Brisbane, Australia; Sydney, Australia; Eden, Australia; Waitangi (Bay of Islands), New Zealand; Auckland, New Zealand; Lautoka,
Fiji; Apia, Samoa; Honolulu (Oahu), Lahaina (Maui) and Hilo, Hawaii Independence of the Seas
- Eastern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2013 - Ports of Call: Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Basseterre, St.
Kitts; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Labadee, Haiti Celebrity Summit - Southern Caribbean Cruise from
San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2013 - Ports of Call: St. Croix, US Virgin Islands; Basseterre, St. Kitts; Rousseau, Dominica; St.
Georges, Grenada; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands Statendam - Alaska Cruise from Seward, Alaska
to Vancouver, BC in 2013 - Ports of Call: Haines, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska, Ketchikan, Alaska Adventure of the Seas -
Southern Caribbean Cruise from San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2014 - Ports of Call: Castries, San Lucia; Bridgetown, Barbados; St.
John's, Antigua; Phillipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Croix, US Virgin Islands; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands;
Basseterre, St. Kitts; Oranjestad, Aruba; Willemstad, Curacao Nautica - Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea Cruise
from Bangkok, Thailand, to Rome (Civitavecchia) in 2014 - Ports of Call: Singapore; Phuket, Thailand; Yangon, Myanmar; Cochin
(Kochi), India; Mangalore, India; Goa, India; Mumbai, India; Salalah, Oman; Aquaba. Jordan; Transit Suez Canal; Haifa,
Israel; Agios Nikolas (Crete), Greece; Sorrento, Italy Celebrity Silhouette - Western Caribbean
Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2015 - Ports of Call: Cozumel, Mexico; Georgetown, Grand Cayman; Montego Bay,
Jamaica; Labadee, Haiti Zuiderdam - Southern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
in 2015 - Ports of Call: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas; Oranjestad, Aruba; Willemstad, Curacao; Cartagena, Colombia;
Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, Panama; Colon, Panama; Puerto Limon, Costa Rica Legend of the Seas -
Southern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2015 - Ports of Call: Oranjestad, Aruba; Kraiendijk, Bonaire;
St. George's, Grenada; Bridgetown, Barbados; Castries, St. Lucia; St. John's, Antigua Celebrity
Eclipse - Baltic and North Sea Cruise from Southampton, United Kingdom in 2015 - Ports of Call: Zeebrugge,
Belgium; Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany; Tallinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen,
Denmark; Southampton, UK; Bergen, Norway; Flam, Norway; Geiranger, Norway; Alesund, Norway; Stavenger, Norway Zuiderdam - Southern Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2016 - Ports
of Call: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas; Oranjestad, Aruba; Willemstad, Curacao; Kralendijk, Bonaire; Cartagena, Colombia;
Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, Panama; Colon, Panama; Georgetown, Grand Cayman; Puerto Limon, Costa Rica; Future Cruises Maasdam - Australia/Indonesia Cruise from Sydney,
Australia in 2016 Adventure of the Seas - Caribbean Cruise from San Juan, Puerto Rico
in 2017 Celebrity Eclipse - Caribbean Cruise from Miami, Florida in 2017 Harmony of the Seas - Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2017 Copyright 2016 by TPM
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