Cruise passengers may meet chefs, learn cooking techniques, dine from fancy tasting menus, and, my favorite, follow a ship’s chef to market at ports around the world.
Nearly a week, without possibilities for going ashore, seems a long time to cross the North Atlantic.But days on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 zip by, if you like a formal life.
Aboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 Queen Mary 2 sailed from Liverpool toward North America on July 4, exactly 175 years (and about 8 hours) after the first passenger voyage across the Atlantic by the line that became known as Cunard. Red Arrows of the Royal Air Force fly over Queen Mary 2 in Liverpool, England…
Flakes fall and snow on the floor provides a bit of shock to your tootsies when you walk into the Snow Grotto on the new Viking Star, especially if you have just left the sauna or steam room.
The new 930-passenger Viking Star, now cruising on itineraries to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and in between, is one of the prettiest cruise ships you will see.
With two additional ships in the Mediterranean, expanding Windstar Cruises intends to be the leader of the world’s small cruise ship fleets.
Exploring the river Seine on Avalon Tapestry II, my wife and I journeyed to the castle ruins of Robert the Devil and my ancient family Norman homeland that we left 950 years ago
Listening to the voice of Jacques Brel on a warm, humid afternoon was one of the highlights of a freighter cruise to the remote islands of French Polynesia on famed Aranui 3
During a recent cruise in Southeast Asia, passengers from Crystal Symphony walked in the woods of Borneo with a headhunter, unintentionally insulted the Sultan of Brunei, and ceremoniously crossed the Equator at sea.