across the atlantic we go. quick stops in azores, and gibralter... we're now in spain. yahoo. [View Full Entry]

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ENROUTE TO PONTA DELGADA, THE AZORES I’m sitting in the Piazza, the central core of the CROWN PRINCESS. They have just come round and passed out chocolate cookies and milk to everyone sitting here. Yum. My traveling buddy, Dick Burns is seeing what is on offer at the Trident Grill. So far, its been a very smooth crossing….but then when the ship is 950 feet long and 133,000 tons it takes a pretty rough sea to move this thing around. The food and the service has been excellent but the ship just seems too big to me. And too many people. [View Full Entry]

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Today we got up at 7am, got breakfast and got ready to go on land. We arrived at the Ponta Delgada Port in the Açores on Sal Miguel Island (Green Island) at about 8am. We got off the ship with a main mission of finding an Internet cafe. We asked people at the information booth and a police officer, and walked by it a couple of times before finding it. Once there, we updated our blog and uploaded some pictures to it. Since we ran out of time while uploading, we do not know what got posted. We will figure that [View Full Entry]

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“. . . girl don't let your dreams be dreams you know this living is not so hard as it seems . . .” Jack Johnson The song that was playing in a café one day in June around the time I read about a holiday run by an English company where you can “swim with dolphins in the open ocean”. It just so happened their next trip worked perfectly into my schedule, so I signed on to the adventure to experience, up close and personal, one of my great loves . . . dolphins. So here I am (let’s pretend [View Full Entry]

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