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<title>Travel Blog | Nisswa Suzy</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Nisswa Suzy</description>
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                    <title>Home Again</title>
                    <description>We're home  Feels kind of strange like we are half here and half there.  The suitcases are empty one of the last loads of clothes is in the washing machine and the huge pile of mail has been sorted through.  We've been to the grocery store and had to cook and cleanup after our meals for the first time in months.  My tan hands are getting rough  But it is good to be home.Hugh's good friend fro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/Nisswa/blog-589695.html</link>
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                    <title>The Azores</title>
                    <description>Yesterday we were in the Azores after almost a week at sea.  We've had some pretty rough seas almost every day with Force 7  9 winds so the ship has been bouncing around quite a bit.  Of course this is to be expected since it is the North Atlantic and March.Ponta Delgada Azores was beautiful.  From the moment we looked out the cabin window in the morning it was obvious we were in a Portuges</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Azores/S-o-Miguel/Ponta-Delgada/blog-587656.html</link>
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                    <title>If it's Thursday this must be St. Kitts</title>
                    <description>The IslandsWell we are recovering from more than a week of hectic days in port.  We are now somewhere in the Atlantic heading home...well back to Southampton that is.Our first island was Aruba one of the Netherland Antilles.  Hugh and I went on a semisubmersible boat ride which took us over the wreck of a German freighter as well as a beautiful coral reef.  It was Hugh's first time seeing un</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-585099.html</link>
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                    <title>Panama Canal  Costa Rica</title>
                    <description>We woke up before 700 AM Tuesday because we could hear an unusual amount of activity for that hour.  We scrambled into some clothes and ran up to the deck where we could see that we would soon be at the first of the two sets of locks on the south end of the Canal the Miraflores locks.  The captain had said we'd be there at 745 but we were almost an hour early.  My favorite part of the canal is</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Limon/blog-583305.html</link>
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                    <title>Manta Ecuador</title>
                    <description>Today we are in Manta Ecuador. Bet you never heard of this place. We had a city tour which took us to among other places the little town of Montechristi where Panama hats come from. Turns out Teddy R. was given one when he came down to open the canal so he told everyone it was his Panama hat...and the rest is history.  It can take three months to weave a hat although they can vary hugely in qu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/West/Manta/blog-581998.html</link>
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                    <title>Machu Picchu</title>
                    <description>Machu Picchu PeruNote For some reason I can't load any pictures today.  I'll try again later.There's a reason it's called the rainy season.  The only time it wasn't raining during our trip to Cusco and Machu Picchu was while we were driving to and from the airport.However it was still a wonderful experience.As soon as the ship docked in Callao the port for Lima we were off to the airport for</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Callao/blog-581983.html</link>
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                    <title>Arica Chile</title>
                    <description>OK I spelled Machu Picchu wrong in the last entry...On Wednesday the 16th we had our second luncheon for those passengers who are booked for the entire cruise the AllRounders.  Here's the menu	Seafood Tower  Baby shrimps rock lobster and tiger prawns on an artichoke bottom served with cognac flavoured cocktail sauce.	Cream of Carrot and Pumpkin Soup  Infused with ginger served with a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-579614.html</link>
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                    <title>Castro Puerto Montt and Valparaiso</title>
                    <description>First a correction Castro is the name of the city not the island.  The island is Chiloe.  We took the tender in after lunch even though it was still raining off and on.  The walk up to the main square was really really steep but worth every step because the most beautiful church I've ever been in was up there.  From the outside it looks dreadful but the interior is breathtaking.  It is about </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Valparaiso-Region/Valparaiso/blog-576696.html</link>
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                    <title>Puerto Chacabuco  Puerto Aysen</title>
                    <description>Just heard there was an earthquake in central Chile yesterday.  We are still hundreds of miles to the south so knew nothing about it.  In other words we are fine.We called at a tiny port called Puerto Chacabuco which is about 8 miles from the larger town of Puerto Aysen.  The river that flows between the two used to be navigable but a recent volcanic eruption made it too shallow.  So now all sh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Aisen/Puerto-Aysen/blog-570852.html</link>
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                    <title>Glaciers etc.</title>
                    <description>Well it has been a wonderful few days.  We were the only passenger ship in port at Ushuaia but there were container ships loading and unloading all along the same pier.  That was one of the differences from six years ago when Mom and Dad and I were there as part of our Antarctic trip.  Another difference was how much the town has grown now at 63000 when I'm sure it was less than 50000 back th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/Punta-Arenas/blog-567140.html</link>
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                    <title>The Falklands</title>
                    <description>Due to weather conditions we went to the main island of the Falklands yesterday and won't be visiting the west island at all. I had been looking forward to that because it supposedly had lots of penguins roaming around that you could just walk amongst. Oh well. Now we will be in Ushuaia a day earlier and rounding Cape Horn before a big storm arrives.Did you realize there were fewer than 2000 peo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Falkland-Islands/blog-565656.html</link>
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                    <title>An unexpectedly exciting day</title>
                    <description>An unexpectedly exciting day  We were in Puerto Madryn Argentina which is a 50000 pop. relatively new resort area about halfway down the coast.  We berthed at the end of their very long pier on the leeward side so the wind wouldn't blow us against it.  Hugh and I walked into town watched the school kids having their gym classes on the beach bought a new cheap wristwatch for me since the h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Chubut/Puerto-Madryn/blog-565009.html</link>
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                    <title>Waterfalls and BA</title>
                    <description>Boy have we been busy  It is great to have a day at sea to recover.First a day in Montevideo Uruguay.  The ship was docked very close to the center of the old part of town so we took the shuttle bus in then strolled back.  It's a beautiful place with lots of old European architecture.  In fact since it is a very flat area the stone and other building materials were brought over from mostl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-564413.html</link>
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                    <title>Ah Rio</title>
                    <description>Rio was very very hot but lots of fun.  As we sailed in early in the morning it was hard to believe we were actually seeing Sugar Loaf and Corcovado Mountains for real  The Christ the Redeemer statue was slightly obscured by clouds but we could see it was there.  We had the premier berth in port being much closer to the terminal than the three huge ships that were there too.  We took a b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-de-Janeiro/blog-563321.html</link>
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                    <title>Dinner at the Captain's Table</title>
                    <description>When we returned to our cabin after lunch yesterday there was an ornate invitation waiting for us inviting us to cocktails and dinner with the Captain.  We can only imagine that we were asked because of our Black Watch romance  So we got all gussied up  it was formal night  and even took the lift for the first time this trip so that we would arrive at the Observatory Lounge without breaking</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Bahia/Salvador/blog-562359.html</link>
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                    <title>The Boogie Ride</title>
                    <description>The Boogie RideThe guide on our coach in Fortaleza admitted right off that he had never been to an English speaking country so his grammar and pronunciation were very interesting.  We had no trouble understanding what he said but it took some mental acrobatics to understand what he meant.  When he held up four fingers and told us he had two brothers for example.  And every time he mentioned t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-561324.html</link>
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                    <title>Almost to Cape Verde</title>
                    <description>We received an interesting bit of news from the captain today.  We will not be going to Recife Brazil because their immigration officials are suddenly demanding a 500 fee for each Filipino crew member aboard  Apparently it is just this particular state of Brazil that has come up with this corrupt policy so we will go to Fortaleza a port in the neighboring state instead.  According to our ca</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Mindelo/blog-559768.html</link>
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                    <title>First Entry  Madeira</title>
                    <description>First port of call today Funchal Madeira a beautiful island off the northwest coast of Africa.  We had a wonderful day filled with sunshine and exercise.  The ship's shuttle bus dropped us in the middle of the city where we jumped on a red hopon hopoff doubledecker tour bus that wound around the sights of Funchal.  Hugh has been here many times before so he was eager to point out his favo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Madeira/Funchal/blog-559210.html</link>
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                    <title>Counting Down</title>
                    <description>Our adventure begins January 3rd when we fly from the Twin Cities to LondonHeathrow.  December will be a flurry of activity as we get ready to go.  It should be easier this time around since I don't have the store to close down just our home.  And I'll have Hugh to help  We just can't wait to be back home on the Black Watch the ship we met on two years ago.  We hope many of the same crew wil</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/Nisswa/blog-550113.html</link>
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                    <title>Home Again</title>
                    <description>We did it  All the way around the world and then some.  And we got home happy and well.The shipped was docked in Southampton when we woke up Monday morning.  We ate a quick breakfast and then were among the first passengers allowed to go ashore.  The Captain stood at the gangway shaking hands and saying goodbye.  A very nice touch that was typical of our wonderful ship.  We were able to quickly g</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/Nisswa/blog-391580.html</link>
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