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Bon voyage. I'll  be following  

Mary  

Looking  forward  to  following  you  on  the world  cruise. I enjoy  your perspective of the places  you visit , will be watching  tour sail away  tomorrow  from my balcony . Hopefully  next year  I'll  be watching  my balcony  from the ship.

Mary  

Looking  forward  to  sharing  all your adventures  on this world  cruise . It will be great  to follow  some many different  cruisers answer compare  their experiences . Looking  forward  to  jazz hand  photos. Will watch your sail away  and wish I was there. Hopefully  next  year

Mary  

I feel for you, try to seek out out of the way spaces.

In Nassau today, raining at the moment as a cold front is moving through

 People leaving the ships wearing rain ponchos, still carrying beach towels. For me a ship day but I've been to Nassau countless times.

I agree that Bar Harbor/ Acadia Park was perfect today but very busy. In addition to CBP mix up our tour also experienced some miscommunication but we ended up having a great day and I managed to get a lobster roll before returning to the ship. We got the tender at 4:30pm and walked right on. 

The good news is that the drink card is available for 70$ today. 🥂It seems that activity team were somewhat prepared as lots of trivia etc were quickly added.

I've been waiting for this! Always enjoy your reviews. Tropics look good so far for next week. Its been 27 years since hurricane Andrew here in So Flo. looking forward to a mellower Andrew visit next week.

Mary

I've sailed the Empress in the distant past and recently on two cruises. One was to Cuba. As a large ship cruiser I enjoyed the Empress very much and have another cruise booked on her. The staff were amazing and brought me back to my early cruising days. Enjoy your cruise,  I'll be checking your blog as always. 

Just want to  say  thanks  for  the  review . I've  been  following  your  amazing  trip . Hopefully  will  be able  to  this  itinerary  when  I  retire. 

Mary  

Amazing time lapse video, Thanks!

Great  pictures  from San  Juan  sail away . It never  get old for me. Love  to just  wander around  and the forts are always  great  to  visit .

The CLR  picture always  brings tears to my eyes.  Truly  a picture  that even  a thousand  words  cannot  explain  more.

Enjoy  Labadee  tomorrow .

Mary 

Photo  at the end of  April on walking trail off Icefields Parkway Canadian Rockies. Loved the snow but not a good idea to go off trail!! Travel is about new experiences, I love to visit Canada, but not sure I could  endure the months of winter snow.

FYI, tomorrow is the Miami marathon so there may be congestion in downtown Miami.

looking forward to virtually travelling with you.

Looking forward to tour review as always. Weather is not good in South Florida this weekend. Hopefully you can sail away from bad weather into good times!

It looks like with the easy  package  you can get zero  proof cocktails and a shot of spirit (or two!!!) And  make  your  own  custom  drink . Anyone tried this yet? I have  been  on MSC for  2 cruises so far and have another  booked . I'm budgeting  for my limoncello, I  got addicted last cruise. Also  loved getting  coffees  at the bars which seems to be included  in  the  easy  plan.

Looking  forward  to following  you  on this trip. Love the description  "out of control cruiser". This voyage  is an interesting  combination  of sea and port days, visiting  some interesting  islands. 

Mary  

Thanks  for this review  I'm  really  enjoying  it . Your  photos  of the aqua show  are amazing  and make  me  want  to  book  a cruise  just  to see  it .

Mary  

Hi Andrew and Lisa,

Looking forward to your review as always. Now I really have the motivation to get used to the new CC.

Enjoy your trip and hopefully no storms!

Mary

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Mary

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I just found your posts. I'm enjoying them immensely you make me feel like I'm there with you. This is a part of the world I want to travel to soon. Thanks for your continued posts.

Mary

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We were in San Juan this week. We had a great time . Old San Juan is pretty much back to pre hurricane status and everyone was very friendly.

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Hi Andrew and family

Just wanted to let you know that I'm following your amazing trip. I must get back to Alaska. These last few years my "cold north" trips have been to the Canadian Rockies . That's also spectacular but after 4 visits my husband still hasn't seen a moose!! As a south floridian the mountains , lakes and hikes to waterfalls make for an exhilarating vacation .

Please keep posting we are here waiting for your updates and appreciate the time you spend doing it.

Mary

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Hi,

We were in Cuba on the Empress at the end of April. We did not purchase a Royal tour, we did pre-book a tour with a car company. They met us after we got off the ship and we had a great tour. We went back to the ship for dinner (had a great meal in WJ). Unfortunately I couldn't convince my travelling companions to go to one of the night clubs.

The next day we were free to come and go and we walked around and visited the Mercardo for souvenir shopping. We had a couple of drinks, something to eat and some great cuban coffee and returned to the port where we bought our rum. Rum seemed to be the same price everywhere and that way we only had to carry it for a short distance.

Prior to the cruise it did seem that the information available made everything seem very complicated, but it really wasn't and we had a great time. I'm sure you will too, the people we met were glad to interact with us, and despite the sad state of repair of some of the buildings, Havana was very clean.

Enjoy your trip!!

Yes, this happened in reverse on our last Empress cruise. The shuttle was a large motor coach but didn't wait to fill before leaving. I would ride as it can be hot and humid and there is not really a good pathway.

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Enjoying your posts. I figure that if you are a month behind it will extend the postings for the world cruise and my vicarious enjoyment of all the world cruise bloggers will be extended. I'm interested to read how your Crystal cruise experience is. Keep cruising to the fullest, blogging can wait. It is interesting to see the port experiences you choose and your appreciation of other cultures

Keep on blogging!!!.

Mary