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Year: 2013

Bouquet in Castellet, France
Carnival Cruise Line

Gorgeous Colors of Provence Come Vividly Alive on a Tour from Carnival Sunshine

July 30, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Gorgeous Colors of Provence Come Vividly Alive on a Tour from Carnival Sunshine

If you can’t spend a year in Provence, you’ve got to at least grab an opportunity to spend a day exploring it. Carnival Cruise Lines offered numerous options on Carnival Sunshine’s visit to Marseille. While […]

Havana Bar on the rebuilt Carnival Sunshine
Carnival Cruise Line

Carnival Sunshine’s Transformation Showcases the Destiny of the Fun Ships

July 23, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Carnival Sunshine’s Transformation Showcases the Destiny of the Fun Ships

It’s fitting that Carnival Cruise Lines chose its ship called Destiny as the showcase for an ambitious plan to re-engineer its Fun Ships. “When we first decided to change the name of Carnival Destiny to […]

Waiters on Azamara Journey
Azamara Cruises

Dining Around is Commitment-Free on Azamara Journey

July 17, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Dining Around is Commitment-Free on Azamara Journey

Azamara Journey is a fascinating ship in the modern cruise world. Even when it’s got a full house there are only 694 passengers on board, so it’s considered a small ship.  But it and Azamara […]

Scooter on the island of Kos
Azamara Cruises

Azamara Offers Modern Day Cure for Greek Island Fever on Visit to Ancient Kos

July 14, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Azamara Offers Modern Day Cure for Greek Island Fever on Visit to Ancient Kos

Limp in, leap out was the theory of health care in ancient Greece. Hospitals were kind of tough-love  health spas where you stayed until you got better. But a lot of it depended on how […]

Cat on the walls of Ephesus
Azamara Cruises

Azamara Evening Makes Ancient Ephesus Even More Amazing

July 7, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Azamara Evening Makes Ancient Ephesus Even More Amazing

If you want to know the best place to sit in the ancient theater in Ephesus, follow a cat. The many felines who roam the ruins of the Odeon after the tourist throngs have left […]

Monk at monastery of Mykonos
Azamara Cruises

Life’s a Beach, but First Azamara Passengers Visit a Monastery

June 26, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Life’s a Beach, but First Azamara Passengers Visit a Monastery

Boy am I glad I didn’t suggest to someone at I’d meet them beside the white building with the flat roof on Mykonos. As the tender from the Azamara Journey tied up at the main […]

Welcoming passengers on Azamara Journey
Azamara Cruises

Settling In to an Elegant Home at Sea for an Adventurous Azamara Journey

June 23, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Settling In to an Elegant Home at Sea for an Adventurous Azamara Journey

Is Azamara Journey a big small ship or a small big ship? It’s a question I pondered on the gangway boarding Azamara Club Cruises’  newly upgraded Journey in Athens’ port of Piraeus. At 10 decks […]

Sign of trouble in airport
Airlines

What to Say When They Say: God Only Knows When You’re Going to Fly

April 21, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on What to Say When They Say: God Only Knows When You’re Going to Fly

It’s a sign that you may not be boarding your flight when uniformed police surround the desk of the departure gate just before an agent is about to make an announcement. It happened on an […]

Waiting for a flight at Paris deGaulle Airport
Airlines

The Flight’s Leaving: Too Bad You Aren’t on it; We Sold Your Seat

April 14, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on The Flight’s Leaving: Too Bad You Aren’t on it; We Sold Your Seat

It’s hardly news that as airlines continue to shrink seat sizes to jam more people onto fewer planes, they’re hearing louder bleats from those who refuse to be sheep about the discomfort and extra charges […]

View of the Heredia valley in Costa Rica
Central America

50 Shades of Green in a Pre-cruise Rain Forest Hotel in Costa Rica

March 17, 2013 Wallace Immen 1

There are an infinite number of colors in Costa Rica, but there’s no escaping green. Arriving at the  Finca Rosa Blanca  coffee plantation and inn for a stay before taking a Star Clippers cruise, I […]

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