Captain, crew and calm passengers aboard 600-passenger luxury Seabourn Encore prepare for a pirate attack.in the Gulf of Aden
The Lower Danube is a highly rewarding river cruise, culturally revealing about what this part of Eastern Europe once was, and also a lesson to Westerners about its life today.
When chunks of parmesan grace the buffet lines in bowls the size of washtubs. When dining room tables each burn a red candle for the evening meal. When a multi-cultural group of cabin attendants greets you in the morning with a chorus of “Buon giorno.” Then, you know you are cruising on a Costa ship.…
As many as 10,000 local townsfolk and formally-attired invited guests watched an extravagant naming ceremony Saturday night in Trieste, Italy, for a new cruise ship, the 3,800-passenger Costa Favolosa. Favolosa, now Costa’s largest vessel, was built near Venice, but it was the first major ship christened in ancient Trieste in 50 years. The event also…
The joke going around the Seabourn Odyssey, a 450-passenger cruise ship sailing between Athens and Venice, is that the captain found the port of Zadar, Croatia, by Googling it on his computer. Because so many passengers said they had never heard of Zadar, Captain Geir-Arne Thue-Nilsen feigned ignorance, too, as if he had stumbled upon Zadar…