Our first full day in Maui started early for me, 4:30am to be exact. Since I could not get back to sleep, I played on the iPad for a bit. Finally at around 6:00am, I decided I might as well get the day started and began unpacking my stuff. With no food in the condo,…
How many times have I been to Hawaii? This question has been asked of me often. It has been nine times not including this trip … November/December 1998, June 2006, December 2009, June 2013, November/December 2014, November 2016, April 2018, December 2019 and December 2023. When Karen turned thirty, she and her friend from junior…
Our trip is winding down and today we are in our final port of call, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. At some point during the night, the clocks fell back an hour. Nana and I headed down to the dining room around 8:15am and were joined shortly by Karen and Marie. After finishing breakfast, it was…
Today’s port of call is Cologne, Germany. Unfortunately we only have the morning here to explore. Nana was not feeling well so we decided it would be best if she just stayed behind. I went down to the dining room to grab her some breakfast. After I finished gathering up a few items, I asked…
Today was the day – the best sailing day of our trip. We are going to be cruising through the Rhine Gorge, a Unesco Heritage Site. It is a seventeen kilometre canyon that was carved by the Rhine River. We learned last night that we would start sailing around 8:30am. Therefore Nana and I went…