Athens to Muscat - The Middle East with a Muse

Technically underway as SS are providing BA Business to Athens. So welcome to the Monday morning crowd in T5 Galleries North.

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Have a great time SS .... and look forward to your usual balanced review as you sail and summary.

We’re off in a few days too, so will probably catch up properly once we are back.

Enjoy

Good morning Silver Sceptre - BA Lounge not a place to linger too long when crowded. We hope that both you and our Friend Beaujolais have a wonderful Cruise and look forward to your Reports.

Have a wonderful sail!

Technically underway as SS are providing BA Business to Athens. So welcome to the Monday morning crowd in T5 Galleries North.

Best wishes and safe travels for this Athens to Muscat adventure. After Athens, I see that your stops and top sights include: Limassol/Cyprus, Suez Canal, Sharm el Sheik/Egypt, Aqaba/Petra/Jordan, Safaga/Luxor/Egypt and Salalah/Oman before arriving in Muscat.

Am very, very interested personally for any and all details about your port stops, the Silver Muse, etc. WHY?? Nov. 16 from Athens, we will starting on the Oceania Nautica to do a sailing that makes all of these stops, plus the Holy Lands, etc., before finishing in Dubai. Also, next July, we will be doing the Silver Muse from Vancouver to Alaska. Tell us more!! All details, tips, suggestions, insights, etc., will be beneficial. Look forward to following along for your fun journey.

THANKS! Enjoy! Terry in Ohio

For details and visuals, etc., from our July 1-16, 2010, Norway Coast/Fjords/Arctic Circle cruise experience from Copenhagen on the Silver Cloud, check out this posting. This posting is now at 231,369 views.

www.boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1227923

Good morning Silver Sceptre - BA Lounge not a place to linger too long when crowded. We hope that both you and our Friend Beaujolais have a wonderful Cruise and look forward to your Reports.

We had a rather brief M&M, due to late muster and Vicki’s pool deck intro. They were on the 6:55 from Heathrow so are also slightly bushed.

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Thanks for the good wishes, and Terry, will try to give you as much detail as possible.

A nice, balmy 19c, good for dinner on the deck later. Internet signal good (?) and useage low.

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Terry, will try to give you as much detail as possible. A nice, balmy 19c, good for dinner on the deck later. Internet signal good (?) and useage low.

Super follow-up from Silver Spectre. Glad weather and Internet are working well. Appreciate your wonderful sharing of into on the various ports, stops and the Muse. Keep up the great "work". We all love following along and experiencing the FUN!!

THANKS! Enjoy! Terry in Ohio

From our Jan. 25-Feb. 20, 2015, Amazon River-Caribbean adventure that started in Barbados, here is the link for that live/blog. Many visuals from this amazing river and Caribbean Islands (Dutch ABC's, St. Barts, Dominica, Grenada, San Juan, etc.):

www.boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2157696

Now at 60,698 views for these postings.

A day at sea, 22.8c, sea calm with small whitecaps, internet good, use medium.

Currently threading our way through the Greek islands on our way to Cyprus.

No one, but no one on the ship knew anything about yesterday’s new build announcement.

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Passing by an unnamed island in the Sea of Crete

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On 10/9/2018 at 8:59 AM, Silver Spectre said:

Passing by an unnamed island in the Sea of Crete


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OK, having a great cruise, but the new CC system is rubbish. Have to log in twice, no forum app, and a week of no info. Basically pretty disgusted.

It seems to have its quirks, Silver. But maybe we will get used to it.

Hope to hear more about your cruise when you have the patience to figure it out. 😕

5 hours ago, jpalbny said:

It seems to have its quirks, Silver. But maybe we will get used to it.

Hope to hear more about your cruise when you have the patience to figure it out. 😕

Looking at the complete dogs dinner they’ve made of the imported data (tags showing and images missing for example), it does make you wonder why there was down time at all.

1 hour ago, les37b said:

 

Looking at the complete dogs dinner they’ve made of the imported data (tags showing and images missing for example), it does make you wonder why there was down time at all.

 

Absolutely agree with you Les. The presentation is embarrassing.

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Looking forward to your thoughts on the Muse and will be following your reports! We join the Muse on Nov 9th in Singapore. Is this your first time on the Muse?

Mr Silver is back in the house! 

10 hours ago, Tarwood3 said:

Looking forward to your thoughts on the Muse and will be following your reports! We join the Muse on Nov 9th in Singapore. Is this your first time on the Muse?

Hi, we were on here in early October and the last cruise before Formal Atlantide was dismantled. The new dining arrangements are generally much better. More thoughts later, after breakfast.

The internet was terribly patchy yesterday and down overnight, but thankfully appears to be back up now.

9 hours ago, Tothesunset said:

Mr Silver is back in the house! 

It’s a hot house, 32c!

Venetian cocktail do last night. 300+ Venetian out of about 475 guests, just fitted into the theatre. Total days 48236, top cruiser 850+ days, 5 with over 700.

Good dinner with HR Mgr in Indochine, where we finally have a new menu. Stonkingly good lamb rogan gosh, spiced up to perfection!

Apparently we sailed with 505 guests, of whom 73 were solo, so 289 out of 298 suites occupied. I believe there were only one or two unoccupied. About 30 got off in Safaga and no guests came on, so the ship feels spacious.

She generally looks almost new with very little sign of wear, maybe public area carpets. The real joy is the constant availability of hot water that is never brown.

After winning our last three trivia’s today we came joint third. A good 80 plus playing and having a good time.

Passing by Djibouti and into the Gulf of Aden. Slight to medium chop, visibility about 100 yards and it’s throwing it down, currently 20c. We are now in Pirate alert mode.

Am trying to persuade OH that we need to take the Spirit Athens-Dubai itinerary for Nov 2020. She has 2 objections: 1. Leaving the dog for 3 weeks and 2. Pirates. 

If you do end up in a cell in Mogadishu please don't tell her. 

Today’s culinary demonstration, Chicken Chaka Maska, wow, smell the garlic!!