A couple of quick notes before I discuss what I learned about working with Princess: This will not be a vent about Princess (or its...

If you remember the movie Titanic ((Andy, are you seriously mentioning the Titanic in your cruise blog???????) .............. ...

Are you an eat-to-live (e2l) person or a live-to-eat (l2e) person? I'll give you a minute to ponder that. (jeopardy music, da da da da...

I have quite a bit I feel I learned about excursion planning. So have a seat, get buckled in, hold on tight.......or at least get...

Your daily life on board is made up of several main factors that impact the success of your cruise: what you do, who you spend time with...

If you're reading this blog, that's a great step in the right direction. It has nothing to do with my blog per se, but rather that...

(This post is from April 8th. Somehow it got deleted, but thankfully I had a backup.....enjoy!) Such an interesting Italian city,...

Las Palmas was exactly what we expected... a quiet little seaside town with quaint shops and eateries, slow paced, easy to navigate. It...

Did you know there are no canaries in the canary islands? Same with the Virgin Islands......there are no canaries there either. Old joke...

Today was our last sea day ..... sort of, depending on how you define it. A sea day could be literal...a day the ship is not in a port. ...

Humphrey Bogart's iconic line from Casablanca comes to mind as we arrived in Casablanca. First impressions? It's ironic that casablanca...

Firstly I have to do a shout out to the weather, possibly our best day of the entire cruise, low 70s and a mild breeze. Given that our...

Today was a much needed sea day. In a perfect world, we'd go port day, sea day, port day, sea day...... but it's not a perfect world. ...

I love Barcelona. I have from the first time I was here in 1984 and it's still as alluring to me today as it was then. We were here last...

As a broad brushstroke statement, I'm not a fan of France, mostly due to the French. I know that's harsh. I'm sorry. I'm a people...

Nestled almost halfway between Monaco and Nice and very close to the Italian border, Villefranche-sur-Mer is a quaint little French town...

It's hard sometimes to decide what to do in any given port. Sometimes there are too many choices, sometimes there are too few. The...

Happy Easter. I hope you're enjoying a special day with family. We're missing Easter with our wonderful kids and grand and it has me a...

Valletta (or Il-Belt) is the tiny capital of the Mediterranean island nation of Malta off the southern coast of Italy. The walled city...

Do you remember when you were a child, you'd fall asleep in the car or the sofa, but you'd wake up the next morning in bed. Cruising is...