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Caviargal! Haven't seen you on the forums in seemingly forever. Welcome back and glad to see you again.

I just did. SMH.

Agree!! Why couldn't it be us? She made it back yesterday afternoon, finally. Sorry for the thread hijack, M. Back to your regularly scheduled WC!

Keep posting Daveywavey!

Looks like a good day to stay inside and curl up under a blanket! One of my sisters is currently stuck in Kona. Not sure if you've seen the story but apparently the runway developed a few cracks which required emergency repairs, so they shut down the airport Monday afternoon. It was repaired and flights resumed yesterday. She had a replacement flight last night which got canceled at the last minute. Can you stop by Kona on the way to Honolulu and pick her up? 😉 Hope you are enjoying the sea days, and relaxing a whole lot.

Not unless you annex Glasgow.

Last year, I climbed that street! Well, it was a virtual workout on my iFit treadmill. But I had Graham McTavish as my guide.

Last I heard, he was living on the Edge...the Celebrity Edge, that is. They are crossing the Tasman from Sydney to New Zealand. Looked like he was having a great time!

My dear grandmother taught me: I before E, Except after C, Or when sounding like "A," Such as neighbor or weigh. And even that doesn't cover all of the exceptions. Weird, isn't it? I don't want to seize the opportunity to get feisty with our foreign friends about their leisure activities, but it would be the height of laziness to forfeit this opportunity.

Wonderful! Wishing you a pleasant cruise. Our two trips on the Ponant Explorers were both fully booked and we didn't feel as if it was too crowded. If you can't find the ship, she is at Latitude -4.62529, Longitude 55.46234, according to the Ponant website. Have a fantastic voyage and post some updated along the way if you can. Madagascar is a unique destination and one that we enjoyed very much. I'll be interested in how your cruise ship visit compares.

Oh no! Sorry it wasn't what you expected. I hope the rock wasn't too uncomfortable.

If it's anything like the cruise we did together last year in Finland and Sweden, I'd recommend it too!

We are eagerly anticipating this for sure. And even better news, our friends from Toronto are going to join us! My TA says that cabins are filling fast. Glad that Chris found this voyage.

Well, we did it! We booked Le Commandant Charcot for a 6d/5n ocean voyage from Reykjavik to Tromsø this October. We have been very eager to see this ship and even though we usually want more activity during our cruises this opportunity was too good to pass up. It will be good practice for our (potential) retirement in November. With the additional 10% off due to our Grand Admiral status (love that status match!), we splurged for a privilege suite on Deck 8. We figured that we'd spend more time in the room on an Ocean voyage, and also it would probably be the only time we could afford one of these suites. We didn't go for the Duplex suite as the step-up in price was a bit much. We will probably go to Reykjavik a day early (at most) since we've been there a lot. We'll stay in Tromsø for a few days afterwards and see if we get some Northern Lights sightings. We have spent a day there once after a Svalbard cruise, and except for the airport it's a beautiful place, so we're looking forward to seeing it again. Finally found the review from your OV, @AussieBoyTX. It was challenging (for me) to find because the words "ocean voyage" aren't in the title! I had been searching for a few days but finally found it by brute force this morning. Will take a cursory look at possible flights but won't do anything about that for a few months. This should be easy to plan compared to our other trips.

One must train hard for these cruises. Not for the timid!

Someone got a picture of me during my last Silversea cruise!

Here's the version I saw recently.

Ron, the caption for the first one doesn't show on my phone. It something like, "Hold still! I have to take this picture for proof of delivery."

That looks delicious! I'm on the treadmill now, burning a few calories while dinner is cooking (not burning) in the oven. But my appetite is definitely whetted.

Maybe he ate the one from September?

Davey - in the US, a jewfish is a grouper. Commonly eaten in Florida. It's a different species in Australia, according to Google.

We will be in Perth for two full days this June, after the Kimberley cruise. We'll start planning for that later, after we finalize our Azores itinerary.

Looks like DW is 5h into his flight now with another 8+ to go. That is a long flight for sure. I've found that 9-10h is my favorite flight duration. Long enough to get some sleep, but not so long that you wake up and still have 8h to go. The 6.5-7h red-eye flights to Europe aren't long enough for me to relax so by the time I get to sleep it's time for breakfast. The longest one we've done so far is ATL-JNB which is about 15h. The first time we did that route I fell asleep right after dinner and woke up feeling refreshed...but the flight wasn't even half over! That was a little annoying; I was wide awake for about 8h, and going a little stir crazy being stuck in the plane. This last time, I knew better and I stayed awake for about 6h before I finally let myself sleep, so when I woke up there was maybe 3h to go. We are trying Singapore Air in June for our Kimberley cruise. After (hopefully) surviving the 18h direct flight from JFK-SIN we have a few hours' layover before we continue on from SIN-Darwin. And yeah, we might have to take a nap after that - unless I can figure out when to sleep on the plane. Jazz - what time of day does your flight leave? Is it the QF flight at 5:30PM? If so, that's not a bad time to start. I'd stay up until at least midnight NY time then try to sleep for the second half of the flight. The bad part is that you arrive at 5AM NZ time. Though I'd try to avoid it, a few more hours of napping might not be a bad idea upon arrival, then you'll be ready to seize the day!

Yes. It was one of the Delfin ships in 2016. I think that's not the first incident though. It was in the Peruvian tributaries by Iquitos.

The worst part of New Year's Day is taking down the tree. Oh well, that's done. Now time for a program on the treadmill, if Dora is done using it.