I am a member of an internet community called Cruise Critic and they include “Member Reviews” among their features. I am submitting this review on the Grande Caribe: “A ‘family’ experience–Grande Caribe ‘2 Nation Vacation” Background have long said I have 2 favorite cruise lines which are polar opposites, Blount and Crystal. The line is…

Sunrise was officially 6:16. I started my walk about 5:45 and found downtown Poughkeepsie to be very long and narrow. When sunrise came there were still commercial buildings packed together on both sides of the street. Finally, at 6:30 I came to a church on a small hill, and the sun was just reaching tree…

It was a very cloudy morning in Montreal. I walked down to the Old Port where the sun had to be just under the clouds but it was nowhere in sight. It was still a lovely morning for walking with temperatures in the mid 60’s (just under 20C). I returned from my walk about 6:30…

The Ocean which started out 30 minutes late entered daylight across the St. Lawrence from Quebec, The only major town we went through was Drummondville which had a nice mural. We were within 15 minutes of schedule when we crossed the St. Lawrence Seaway on the Victoria Bridge into Montreal. The bridge crosses the seaway…

After 5 straight foggy mornings the skies today were about 50% clear and 50% cloudy. I still did not actually see the sun due to a combination of a hill and buildings to the east, but there was a nice color to a small patch of open space where Princess Street came down to the…

Surprise, another foggy morning. The core of Saint John has public wifi and I briefly got a connection from the top deck . Canadian stops all require security guards so we were unable to open the gangway until 7AM when the guards arrived. I took a pre-breakfast over to the Maritime Bus Station which will…

The word of the day was fog. When I got my first coffee it was clearly foggy and I returned to my room for a while going on deck about 6:30. The sun had once again risen without a trace. We had left Digby about 4AM and had another smooth crossing of the Bay of…

This morning I chose to ignore the alarm and went back to sleep until after 6. When I went out on deck about 6:30 I had just missed official sunrise, but it was another pea soup fog morning. We had left St. Andrews about 4AM and our crossing of the Bay of Fundy was silky…

I left my IPAD on Eastern time overnight and did not wake until 6. When I went on deck about 6:40 sunrise was imminent but I could only tell by my GPS as the fog was pea soup dense. We pulled up to the dock at St. Andrews very close to our 7:30 estimate and…

I quite happily slept through our 2AM departure from Bar Harbor. When I went on deck a little after 5 there was a pea soup fog that lingered for most of the morning. Internet service was also very limited, there was a short window as we passed one island around 7AM, and another window mid-morning…