After an overnight trip from Aruba, we arrived in Cartagena, Colombia on January 16th, our first port of call in South America. We were eager to see this coastal city, recalling the beautiful cinematography in the 1984 film Romancing the Stone. The movie featured actors Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, upstaged by the…
Cartagena Favourites
Three of the photos merit a little more attention than those in the slideshow in my previous blog. The first two feature some street vendors we encountered in Cartagena. Street vendors are not unique, in fact they are everywhere and not they are not normally photo subjects. In this case, it was different. We encountered…
Aruba
I’m getting a little behind due to the sporadic nature of satellite internet. It works well at night, so I’m spending a little time now to post some shots from last Saturday’s stop in Aruba. We arrived early in the morning and went ashore for an island tour before leaving for Cartagena, Colombia later in…
Willemstad
Our first port of call on our cruise was Willemstad, capital city of the Island of Curacao. Located in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Venezuela, Curacao is part of the Netherlands Antilles. Our stop was a brief one, about 8 hours before we set out for our next destination, Aruba, a short…
First Day at Sea
Our first day of the cruise was an enjoyable one, bookended by a nice sunrise and a very beautiful sunset. That’s pretty much the extent of the scenery out on the ocean. We’re presently about midway between Fort Lauderdale and our first stop in Curacao. We see the occasional island, Cuba and Haiti for instance…