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The 34-day spring cruise aboard Oceania’s Nautica that took us from Bangkok, Thailand to Istanbul, Turkey was a repositioning cruise. ...

A friend who recently spent two days at sea on an Alaskan cruise proclaimed he wasn’t a cruiser after the experience. And then, in an incred...

Or is there? We celebrated Thanksgiving in a most untraditional way this year a couple of hundred miles off the coast of northwestern Afri...

We basked in those unstructured, don’t-need-to-be-anywhere-or-do-anything days at sea on our recent transatlantic repositioning cruise, spen...

Think cruise ship. Think floating hotel. While our  Captain got us to our ports of call and ultimate destination, someone else was taking ...

Another taste of Celebrity Life came to an end today.  And as it did, we wondered how a 13-night cruise could glide by as rapidly as has t...

We are now more than half way across the Atlantic Ocean as evidenced by the map on our television screen this morning.  (We are the little ...

Being on the sea is the selling point for us on transatlantic cruises; days of endless sea foam blanketing sapphire water with lace coverin...

We’re mid-way across the Atlantic Ocean now and for the last couple of our days, our 122,000 ton ship has been buffeted by gusting  35 mph w...

They all said it would be like this. But, quite frankly, it sounded too good to be true. The emails came as did the conversations:  “You...

We'll follow this waterway into the Atlantic Ocean j.smith photo, (c) 2011 Just like kids on Christmas morning, we were both awake e...