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Transatlantic Cruise – Adventure of the Seas

This update will continue with our two-month trip to Europe and the cruise back to Florida. In the last post, we moved out of our Barcelona apartment and moved onto the cruise ship ultimately bound for the USA. This is by far the longest that we have ever been out of the country. It will be good to get back home to see family during the Christmas holiday. Why take a cruise back home instead of fly?

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Barcelona Spain – Moving Day

Our eight days here are over and we are excited about the next phase of our bucket list trip. We left home on October 16 for our 31 days in Florence Italy with a few side trips. From there we flew to Barcelona to explore this historic Spanish coastal city. Now it is time for our travel back to the USA on a transatlantic cruise. We have heard great things about these long cruises, but still a little concerned about life on the wide open Atlantic!

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Fall 2024 European Adventure

We leave in two days for a two-month adventure! This, trip has been almost a year in the planning stages and has many different facets. To begin with some background, we took a guided tour of the highlights of Italy last year. Saw many major tourist locations but it was very fast paced – no rest time nor much on our own time. We wanted to get back and explore in much deeper detail. So here is the plan:

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Cruise – Western Caribbean

One of our vacations from a strenuous retirement, is to take a cruise while we are already in Florida for the winter. This year I found a 6-day cruise on Royal Caribbean aboard the Jewel of the Seas. It was a good deal at less than $100 a day each for an inside cabin and it sailed out about 45 days from when I booked it. It was a beautiful warm week in late February and we had a surprise waiting for us on board! On to the Western Caribbean!

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February Was a Blur

Not sure where the month of February went to, but it is in the rear view mirror now. We seemed to be busy for most of the days, but had just a few noteworthy events. So it is to be retired and enjoying life in Florida, the capital of the 55 and over set. I try to capture items in this blog that have some interest for others and to document our travels. So where did February go?

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Home! – A Wild Ride

Pat and I made it safely home yesterday, 1/24, after a very long day the day before. It was an adventure that we would rather not repeat. Although, I love the travelling and you have to take it that occasionally things do not go as planned. Thank goodness with time, we tend to remember the better parts. Here is a quick summary of the disembarkation from Crystal’s Symphony in Bimini and travel home.

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Bimini Bahamas – Waiting to Disembark

It is now 9am Sunday morning and we are on Day 2 of our extra days onboard the Crystal Cruise Lines Symphony. After Crystal announced they were suspending operations we were to return to the port of Miami, get our car and then drive back to our RV park in Florida. Obviously, the arrest warrant issued by a Florida court (as previously noted) required the vessel to sail to the Bahamas, out of the US jurisdiction. So, here we are in Bimini Bahamas…

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Crystal Symphony – Arrest Warrant Issued!!

Perhaps a couple of red flags have gone up as warning signs. First it was the shutdown of the Crystal cruise operations after our ship returned to the port in Miami on Saturday morning. Today, Friday 1/21, the captain made an announcement that due to “non-technical operational issues” our ship would not be ending the cruise at the Miami port. What’s up now?

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