2013
I cruised from 04 December to April 8th 2013. The cruise consisted of
eight legs. They were:
1. Portsmouth, England to Bridgetown, Barbados
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2. Bridgetown, Barbados to Montego Bay, Jamaica
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3. Montego Bay, Jamaica to Manta, Ecuador
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4. Manta, Ecuador to Valparaiso, Chile
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5. Valparaiso, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina
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6. Buenos Aires, Argentina to Recife, Brazil
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7. Recife, Brazil to Manaus, Brazil
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8. Manaus, Brazil to Montego Bay, Jamaica
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The voyage was 24,242 nautical miles which is about 26,666 land miles
visiting 58 unique ports.
In the last part of April and the early part of May I spent time in Southern
England. Sample album.
Below are the individual albums and associated blogs for each individual day.
Outbound -
blog
London -
blog
Tonbridge -
blog
Winchester -
blog
Watercress -
blog
Chichester -
blog
Portsmouth -
blog
Tour IOW -
blog
Sandown -
blog
Osbourne -
blog
New Forest -
blog
Swanage -
blog
Salisbury -
blog
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Then I visited Italian Lake District and Switzerland.
Sample album.
Venue specific albums are:
Outbound&Lugano -
blog
Lago Maggiore - blog
Lago Como - blog
St Moritz -
blog
Bernina Pass -
blog
Glacier Express -
blog
Matterhorn -
blog
Grindelwald
- blog
Jungfraujoch -
blog
Luzern -
blog
Vitznau-Rigi -
blog
To Poland -
blog
I transitioned to Poland to end May.
Sample album. Venue
specific albums are:
Krakow -
blog
Zakopane - blog
Auschwitz -
blog
Torun -
blog
Gdansk -
blog
Warsaw1 - blog
Warsaw2 - blog
In late June the Tall Ships
visited Toronto Harbour. Albums
from the land and
from the water.
On July 1st we celebrated
Canada Day in my neighbourhood. The
Port Union Beach is quite
nice.
I spent the last two weeks of July in Norway doing the coastal voyage from
Bergen to Kikenes and back. The daily blogs tell the real story:
Toronto-Bergen
Geiranger
Trondheim1
Bodo
Tromso
Honnigsvag
Kirkenes
Hammerfest
Stokmarknes
Bronnoysund
Trondheim2
Torvik-Bergen
Bergen
Norway's majesty is shown in:
Northbound Photo Album
Southbound Photo Album
In August I sailed on the "American Queen", a steam-powered stern paddle
wheeler on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Pittsburgh to St Louis.
The albums are presented in two parts as:
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati and
Louisville to St Louis.
The detailed daily blogs can be found at:
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
Marietta
Point Pleasant
Maysville
Cincinnati
Louisville
Owensboro
Henderson
Peducah
Cape Girardeau
Chester
St Louis
The Scottish Borders were my tour in September. Three albums and
associated daily blogs are:
Western Border Area
Central Border Area
Eastern Border Area
Outbound
Glasgow
New Lanark
Brodick
Arran
Tour
Free Day
Arran
Bowness
Eden Valley
Hadrian's
Wall
Durham
Ford-Etal
Tweed Valley
Edinburgh
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In October I got to meet the Berbers of Morocco and the Bedouin of Jordan.
The Moroccan albums:
Morocco Part 1
and
Morocco Part 2 The associated daily blogs are:
Outbound
Casablanca
Fes
High Atlas
Low Atlas
Col de Tichla
Marrakech
Casablanca
There are albums Jordan
Part 1 and Jordan Part
2. The associated daily blogs can be found at:
Transition
Jerash
Wadi Rum
Petra
Kerak
Bethany
Notes on
Nabataeans and
T.E. Lawrence
In November it was Guatemala followed by Costa Rica. The photo albums
and daily journals are:
Guatemala 1
Guatemala 2
Outbound
Guatemala City
Guirigua
Tikal
Petenchel
Antigua
Coffee Plantation
Lake Atitlan
Guatemala City
Transition to
Costa Rica
Costa Rica 1
Costa Rica 2
San Jose
Poas Volcano
Tortuguero
Turtles
El Arenal
Rio Frio
Guanacaste
Hacienda Pinilla
Tarcoles
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To compare and contrast, we had a snowstorm. This was the scene on
December 15th in Toronto.
I was in Burma cruising the Irrawaddy River in late December. The photo
albums are:
Burma:
Kids
Beasts
Bikes Babes Pagodas Burma-1
Burma-2 Daily blogs are:
Outbound
Yangon to Prome
Thayat Myo
Min Hia
Sale
Tan Kyi Taung
Ohn Ne Kyang
Yandabo
Mandalay
Mingun
Kyauk Myoung
Tagoung
Second Defile
Katha
Hti Gyint
Departure
Thanaka
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