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I'm with you. I have NO desire to spend the whole trip in the same few places and dare I say 'ambiance'?

Bless your heart.

Again, nope. And again, I'm guessing it's the suite that does it. I wonder, six weeks out, will I get anything else in print? Emails are fine too.

No, no. They're my BFF.

Nothing at all but you're in a suite. That must make the difference.

We made the mistake - or were brilliant enough - a few years ago to meet with a financial planner. One of the things we discussed was senior living places. And not the crumb-bum ones. One we especially like is $7k+ a month and that's if you don't need ANY care!!!! And on-topic we're not sure how much more 'foreign travel we really want to do. I've been to six continents and Bob's been to seven. But we'll see. xoc

I truly have nothing that I care enough to hide so don't care....but yeah.

Not my guy - an undergrad degree in accounting and MBA finance. WE (not just he) would be putting that extra money away for something else.

That is HILARIOUS!!!! And I (used to ) consider myself a Queen of Google. Thanks and it will be handled that way in the future.

I suck at searching on this site. It's no "Google." 🙂 So thanks.

No joke. I would far rather have dinner with the food and beverage person. That's where my interests lie and I'd love to see how it's managed at that level.

We sale 7/4 so that seemed like good timing. But in it was a letter that, except for our names, was completely boilerplate. We also got luggage tags with name inserts. (Great looking!) And a generic Nautica brochure. Should there be something else? TIA

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro

Or don't cruise.

Our dining table, which isn't used that much any more, has become our "staging area." So a few days ahead we'll start putting anything there that absolutely needs to go and we don't need it before then. Probably finish up around dinner time the night before we leave.

Which is exactly why I won't try to exempt myself , My one time on jury duty I was appalled at the true lack of being able to understand the facts.

Thanks for the education. Interesting. And I could live there for the food 🙂

Thank you so much. I learned a lot from this. And, yes, our litigious nature is a nasty one.

They didn't speak English? That's pretty unusual, isn't it?

We're going to be looking at those for sure. We're definitely destination oriented and sea days are pretty boring to us. Also cruises that make stops at beachy places. No interest there. When we had our place in Rio we finally stopped even taking bathing suits. We never went in the water. Sat on the great sidewalk under an umbrella and had super food and drinks.

It was the word "natively". I was thinking you meant outside where you live perhaps. I've never thought of other countries in the "native" way. You might want to check out Western Europe where it seems almost everyone speaks English. And poor you. I can't imagine traveling and not eating with the locals. Hopefully they'll come up with a cure.

Oops, didn't read this before posting about experiences on land. So are you saying that you don't go out to eat?

I mean no offense but are the 'nicer' restaurants you go to on land able to provide those things?

Just after 3PM here so maybe a nap before cooking dinner (Roasted Pork Belly - a no-no). No nappy.

I was in Barcelona where Catalan is frequently spoken. I speak a little Spanish but no Catalan. I was looking for a particular place and approached a young man and asked "Habla Ingles?" He replied "How may I help you?" A fun travel memory.