Days 50-52: 10-12 March – At Sea
You’d think with three days at sea we’d be able to catch up on our blogging. But we are just too busy! In Tai Chi, we had finished learning a… Read more »
Days 48-49: 8-9 March – Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China
20 million people. 20% of the construction cranes in the world. Shanghai is a crowded ever-changing city. In the neighborhood where the ship was docked, there were high-rises in the… Read more »
Days 46-47: 6-7 March – At Sea
The President and CEO of Holland America Lines came aboard with his wife and a few top executives of the company to schmooze with the repeat, high-worth customers. As a… Read more »
Days 44-45: 4-5 March – Hong Kong, SAR, Peoples Republic of China
[Please see the Production Notes page.] Hong Kong is every bit the metropolis depicted in the movies and on TV. We sailed in at dawn, still in the wet low… Read more »
Day 40: 28 February – Crossing the Equator
Indonesia is a hard country to sum up especially after visiting only two of the 6000 inhabited islands. What we saw was very crowded yet wherever possible there we rice… Read more »