Come gather 'round people wherever you roam...
It's jet-lagged Norris here, not awash in cheap grog from the rum barrel but awash in memories from our 4th Celebrity cruise. If ye'd sit a spell I'll tell ye a tale!
As usual in my Gentleman's Seafaring Journals there will be some "pirate speak" born from my love of the sea and my late dad, a ship's captain.
There will be a lot of APEX and the ports she sailed to.
There will be a lot of FOOD PORN and I'm not talking bole weevils
THE BACK STORY
This cruise didn't happen overnight without any thought. There's a history to the planning...
The early Mesopotamians, circa 10,000 BC needed land to graze their sheep-sorry! sorry!
That's way too far back and nothing to do with cruising-I don't think they even had cruise ships back then, unless some of the older Carnival ones?
Let me start again...
The original plan for 2023 was a Princess 10 day and tour/cruise to Alaska in May. That would