Mamma Mia – Here we go again!
Spain, Andorra, France, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Greece I want my daughters to experience the world, so for each milestone (16th birthday, high school graduation and college graduation) I offered to take them on a trip. They would tell me where they wanted to go, and as long as I could find a good deal, I would make it happen. Our youngest daughter turned 16 and our middle daughter graduated high school in 2021 during the pandemic, so we weren’t able to take them on a celebratory trip – but now that travel is in full swing, we decided to take that make-up trip! Our oldest daughter and her fiancé, my…
Cruising in Style on the Scarlet Lady
A cruise with no kids, all specialty dining, free gratuities, free fitness classes, free basic beverages and free WiFi – sounds like a dream, right? Well now your dreams can come true on the Scarlet Lady, the new cruise ship from Virgin Voyages. Owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, Virgin invites sailors to expect the unexpected and unleash your wanderlust. We originally signed up to sail in October of 2020 for my 50th birthday celebration, but we all know what happened that year and the launch of the Scarlet Lady was delayed. When cruises started up again in 2021, we decided to give it another try. At the time all…
An Afternoon in Old San Juan
Old San Juan Recently, my girlfriend Debbie and I decided we wanted to take another Caribbean cruise and began looking for one that stopped at island countries we had never visited before. In order to find a cruise that visited the more Southward islands in less than a week, we had to change our Port of Departure. We settled on Norwegian’s 7-Day Southern Caribbean cruise which began in Puerto Rico. (To see a review of the cruise, click here) We had never been to Puerto Rico before, so we figured why not! We flew into Puerto Rico on Spirit airlines the night before the cruise. We didn’t want to risk…
Cruising the Caribbean…
I hadn’t been on a cruise in a while and March seemed like a great time to go. The kids had different weeks off for Spring Break this year, so we thought, it wouldn’t be fair to take some of them and not the others – let’s just go alone! (Don’t feel TOO bad for them, they’re going to Hawaii with us in a few months ) We ended up deciding on the Norwegian Dawn and their Southern Caribbean route leaving from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The cruise we took had the following itinerary: Day Port of Call Arrival Departure 1 San Juan, Puerto Rico — 9:00 p.m.…
