Saturday - 12 April 2014 - Boulder, Colorado
At 11:40 pm ship time Sunday April 14, 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg during a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. This should not be relevant for our upcoming crossing of the Atlantic since we will be going West to East as I believe that icebergs are only a problem for westward going vessels in the Atlantic. The opposite applies in the Southern Hemisphere, of course.
Our upcoming two ship cruise includes two nights in Fort Lauderdale, a crossing to Barcelona on the 500 or so passenger Silver Spirit. We stop in Bermuda, visit two islands in the Azores, and travel to the sunny and maybe even warm Spanish towns of Malaga, Cartegena, and Velencia before arriving in Barcelona. We will fly to Lisbon for two nights and then embark the 350 passenger Silver Whisper for visits to a bunch of new ports for me. First Oporto (home of Port wine), then the Spanish cities of La Coruna, Gijon, and Bilbao, a two day visit to Bordeaux, France and a stop in Saint Malo before finally arriving in Southampton, England and flying home from London. This is a month long trip. Maybe it will be Spring when we get home. The forecast here in Boulder is for four to six inches of snow tomorrow. It will be nice to warm up in the Azores. (But it was almost 80 yesterday here along the Front Range of Colorado, by the way. Funny weather we're having nowadays.)
I'll be posting short updates to my Facebook page and more detailed entries with more pictures to this blog from time to time.
Statistics for the upcoming two ship cruise trip:
Silver Spirit Cruise: 16 days, 5200 miles, 8 ports, 4 new ports for me including 2 new countries
Silver Whisper Cruise: 9 days, 1700 miles, 8 ports, 6 new ports for me, no new countries
Flights: 3 segments, 7000 miles
Hotel nights: 4
I think you meant 1912 for the RMS Titanic iceberg hit!
ReplyDeleteGerry
Hi Gerry, I guess as I've gotten older 102 years seems like only yesterday, uh today. Thanks for catching that. No one else has. Oh well. Should be a nifty cruise. Next one isn't for a year, long cruise from Singapore to Athens. That's along the route that I lectured on once a year in the late 1900s (not late 2000s). Mike
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