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Venezia Transatlantic: Day 11

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September 8, 2023

Good morning! It’s 57 degrees outside as we make our way across the Atlantic Ocean to Halifax. Today is World Ocean Day and  the day we are expected to cross over the resting place of the Titanic. We are expecting an announcement on that from the captain around noon…


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Venezia Transatlantic: Day 10

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September 4, 2023

Good morning. We are still working our way across the Atlantic. I believe we are going to pass the location of the Titanic tomorrow.

This is the morning view from my balcony.

Here is a look at today’s Fun Times.

Let’s do deck 5 front to back.

Alright I need coffee.

I got a…


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Venezia Transatlantic: Day 9

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September 1, 2023

Good morning. Today is our second consecutive sea day, making our way across the Atlantic Ocean. We set our clocks back another hour this morning as we ease our way back eastern time.

This is the morning view from my balcony.

Here is today’s Fun Times.

The coffee line isn’t bad this…


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Venezia Transatlantic: Day 8

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August 28, 2023

Good morning! Today is the first of four consecutive sea days as we make our way across the Atlantic Ocean to Halifax, Canada.

We are easing back into the proper time zone by going back one hour each morning. I think I’m going to enjoy getting an extra hour each…


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Venezia Transatlantic: Ponta Delgada

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August 25, 2023

Good morning. We are still making our way to Ponta Delgada. I’m going on a tour #7 with Azoean Tours. I’m going to see a volcano, a waterfall and much more.

Believe it or not I’ve actually been there before. When I was 19 I was on a chartered military…


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Ponta Delgada: Azorean Tours

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August 21, 2023

I didn’t start looking at excursions for this cruise until three months out. By then all of the Carnival excursions for this port were sold out.

It sounded like you could go to town without an excursion, but most of what I wanted to see here required a car.

I went…


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Venezia Transatlantic: Day 6

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August 18, 2023

Good morning! After Barcelona, Malaga, Gibraltar, and Lisbon, today is a much needed sea day. We set our clocks back an hour so we had an additional hour of sleep. Tomorrow we are in Ponta Delgado.

Here is today’s Fun Times:

 

Apparently the guy doing caricatures on deck 11 is sponsored…


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Venezia Transatlantic: Lisbon

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August 14, 2023

Good morning! Our clocks went back an hour this morning. It’s 4:30 but it feels like 5:30. I need to try to get another hour or two of sleep but sometimes once I’m up, I’m up. And it’s pretty rough out side. I’m not sure if this is the…


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Lisbon: Hop-on, Hop-off bus

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August 11, 2023

There are three Hop-on, Hop-off bus companies in Lisbon: Gray Line, Yellow Line, and City Sightseeing. The Gray Line said they weren’t expecting another bus for 30 minutes and they didn’t know if they were going to sell anymore tickets.

I ended up going with City Sightseeing since I’ve used…


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Lisbon: Monument to the Discoveries

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August 7, 2023

The Monument to the Discoveries was originally built as a temporary structure for the 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition. It was destroyed in 1943.

The permanent structure we see today was completed in 1960 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator who discovered the Azores,…

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