Regent Seven Seas Cruise Director, Jamie Logan's Blog
Besides eating calamari, Greek salad and large dish of garlic laden tzatziki along the waterfront in Santorini, our favorite thing to do is to go up the cable car, turn to the right and then just walk the wall and enjoy the most stunning views of the Greek Islands, or anywhere for that matter!As we walk along, we set our destination at “Dana’s” to have a nosh, a beverage, then enjoy the … [Read more...]
Greetings once again Vicarious Cruisers, After all the weather and such we experienced last voyage, we certainly all hoped that this voyage would be good. As you may have read in my last entry, Napflion, Greece was a delightful day! Monemvasia, Greece followed and was splendid! Crete was pleasant enough when our guests ran off to visit the 6000 year old ruins of Knosses. Santorini, … [Read more...]
A Friendly Stroll Through Nafplion, Greece... Nafplion is located inGreece’s Peloponnese region and is only a two hour drive from Athens. It is the gateway to ancient Corinth and the Corinth Canal. As you will see by my photos it was a glorious day and our guests, about 600 of them, stepped out to tour our first port of call for this voyage. I have done the tours here in years … [Read more...]
Last voyage sure kept us all on our toes as we faced a lot of challenges. I have been sailing in the Eastern Mediterranean /Greek Islands for 25 years and NEVER had a cruise like this one... It started out in great fashion with an 11:00pm sail away from Monte Carlo, followed by a terrific day spent around Livorno where our guests toured Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre and more - it … [Read more...]
We just began another great leg of our journey, this segment we are sailing from "Monaco the Magnificent" to Piraeus (Athens), Greece. Yesterday we made call on a gorgeous day at St. Tropez, on the French Riviera. Today over 600 of our guests are now out on tour from Livorno, the gateway to Pisa, Florence, Sienna, San Gimignano and Lucca– so many options in this great … [Read more...]
To my Vicarious Cruisers, Well, what can I say? Last cruise just sailed right by us and now we are well in to our second voyage back. The only place we managed to slip a shore for an hour or so was at marvelous Monemvasia. This was my first call ever to this Gibraltar–like rock island, situated on the Southern coast of Greece’s Peloponnese andI felt I had to see it and, of course, our … [Read more...]
What’s that? Hemingway? No, this certainly has nothing to do with Ernest, though he was my kind of guy because he certainly was a traveler! Come to think of it, I have been cruising so long sometimes I do feel like I have become The Old Man and the Sea! Instead, this post is about the little farewell meal Dana and I enjoyed on the pier of Santorini during our last visit, shortly before … [Read more...]
This week Seven Seas Mariner was scheduled to do something special, something that not many ships get to do. What I am alluding to is that we were to call at the Island of Delos which is just five nautical miles and just around the corner from Mykonos. For those ships that call only at Mykonos, it’s not difficult to book a boat excursion to Delos, but to do so is just a bit much out of … [Read more...]
Greetings from Piraeus (Athens) Greece. We just finished a most awesome voyage (if I say so myself after all these years)! It was truly great - Halelujah! You can view the itinerary from the itinerary page on this blog. This trip there were some truly wonderful highlights. The first day of the voyage we were had to make lemonade out of a lemon. Mykonos was to be our first port, however, … [Read more...]
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