The Happy Traveler
Monday, August 11, 2008
Floating Away on a Mini-Vacation
My husband Marty and I live in Florida, which gives us easy driving access to five major cruise ports. For the value, there is no vacation that beats a cruise. We've been pampered on about fifty cruises—to the Greek Islands, the Mediterranean, Alaska, Mexico, the Bahamas and the Caribbean—lasting from three to sixteen days.Our favorite type of vacation is the mini-cruise, a 3-4 night getaway to the Bahamas aboard Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, a 1,200-room, almost-74,000-ton beauty that was elegantly refurbished last year. Its dedicated home port is Miami. Majesty sails from Friday to Monday morning and Monday afternoon to Friday morning. What happens during this time is bliss and relaxation. Escape? It's all about the cruise!
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Don’t Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
I have a passion for travel, whether it's solo, with my husband or with my grandchildren. This is how I nourish my mind and discover and embrace history, cultures, architecture and landscapes. Sometimes, a travel experience is absolutely indelible.
While on a Greek Islands cruise aboard the beautiful and very Italian ship, Costa Classica, I saw fertile, pine-clad valleys, sleepy olive groves and hilly, goat-trodden terrain. I explored the ruins of Doric temples and fragments of statuary fashioned from limestone and legend. For me, the most enchanting port was Kithera.
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Roberta Sandler
Travel Writer and Guidebook Author
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