Ok, bad pun here but I am boarding the NCL Sun and heading west. Not the usual direction for transatlantics at this time of year. Looking at the route from Lisbon to Miami, unlike the last ship, we have more than a few ports.
The schedule looks like this –
It will be interesting to see if we actually stop at Horta in the Azores. The two previous transatlantics with that scheduled stop both cancelled the port call due to bad weather. Since it was listed for those cruises as a tender port, I am not holding my breath. This time? Listed as docked. We will see.
The reason for the westbound trip made sense to me after I looked at her follow-on cruise. She heads through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Northwest and joins the gaggle of ships on the Alaska cruise scene for the summer. If I had the time, I would have loved to stay aboard and sail once again through the Panama Canal on this ship. But it is time to head home.
I have a reasonable number of free WiFi minutes, but not an unlimited package so I might be back to hunting Internet cafes in port and scavenge a bit here and there. It will be interesting…
