Noon Report: Location: N 32° 49.26′, E 035° 00.10′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: High Clouds Temperature: 18º C; 64º F Wind: NNW 9 knots; 10 mph We woke up docked in Haifa, Israel, this morning.The most striking thing was to open our curtains and see Mt. Carmel right in front of us. The city […]
Noon Report: Location: N 30° 44.20′, E 032° 20.40′ Speed: 10 knots Course: 340º Weather: Clear Temperature: 25º C; 77º F Wind: ENE 7 knots; 8 mph Sea: Calm When we awoke this morning and drew back the curtains we found that we were already in the Canal.We had arrived at the south-end staging area
Noon Report: Location: N 28° 11.60′, E 033° 20.90′ Speed: 10 knots Course: 327º Weather: Clear Temperature: 16º C; 61º F Wind: NNW 7 knots; 8 mph Sea: Calm Didn’t set the alarm this morning so we could sleep in past 5:30 for once.It was nice. Eventually our stomachs informed us that it was time
Noon Report: Location: N 26° 44.70′, E 033° 56.70′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Overcast Temperature: 21º C, 70º F Wind: NNW 11 knots, 13 mph Up a bit earlier this morning (5:30 am). You may remember that yesterday in Aqaba the friendly people at Passport Control kept our passports and returned them to the
Noon Report: Location: N 29° 31.02′, E 034° 59.77′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Overcast Temperature: 18º C, 64º F Wind: NW 7 knots, 8 mph Up at 5:30 (the ship was docking at 6 AM) and dressing warmly for the forecasted chilly weather, we had a quick breakfast, met up with our tour group
Noon Report: Location: N 25° 17.50′, E 036° 11.90′ Speed: 19 knots Course: 329º Weather: High Overcast Temperature: 25 C; 77 F Wind: SSE 7 knots; 8 mph Sea: 3 foot swells A bit quicker getting up this morning. The usual 9:30 lecture was moved to 9:00 because of a crew safety drill at 10:00.Once
We got back to our stateroom last night to find a letter in a sealed envelope on our bed – the sure sign of significant change. The letter included replacement excursion tickets. The tour vendor has determined that Saturday is NOT the day to bring our tours to Jerusalem.So they have swapped all Saturday and
Noon Report: Location: N 21° 28.76′, E 039° 09.76′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: High Overcast Temperature: 34º C, 93º F Wind: W 2 knots, 3 mph I don’t know what to tell you. We needed a break. MaybeWe didn’t want to deal with the “overhead” of visiting Saudi Arabia (wear long pants and long
Noon Report: Location: N 16° 48.51′, E 040° 29.56′ Speed: 15.6 knots Course: 308º Weather: High Overcast Temperature: 27 C; 81 F Wind: ESE 10 knots; 11.5 mph Sea: Calm So yesterday I got notice from the vendor for our Petra excursion that the passport photos we sent them weren’t of sufficient quality to use
Noon Report: Location: N 12° 03.92′, E 045° 24.21′ Speed: 18 knots Course: 252º Weather: High Overcast Temperature: 28 C; 82 F Wind: ENE 16 knots; 3 mph Sea: 3 foot swells Pretty normal morning.Up, Exercise, Breakfast, Walking into the World Cafe this morning we noted that lunch today is our first ever “pickled fish”