Mindelo - Cape Verde Islands
2024年4月26日, カーボベルデ ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
Cesária Évora is the most famous singer from Mindelo and we saw her image all over town. Nicknamed the “Barefoot Diva” she sometimes performed without shoes and had a penchant for swiggingもっと詳しく
Bright City - Dark Past
2024年4月18日, ブラジル ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Ironically, the most brightly colored part of Salvador de Bahia has its darkest past. The Pelourinho neighborhood takes its name from the whipping post which once stood here.
Until slavery wasもっと詳しく
Salvador Streets
2024年4月18日, ブラジル ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
The city of Salvador in Brazil’s state of Bahia is a port town with steep hills. As a result there are two main sections to the city, the lower and the upper.
An easy way to get from the bay levelもっと詳しく
Church of Colored Ribbons
2024年4月18日, ブラジル ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F
Our cabbie, JCDS, took us to Salvador’s most beloved church: Basilica Santuario Senhor do Bonfim,
The church is surrounded by a wrought iron fence that is completely covered in brightly coveredもっと詳しく
A Local Saint
2024年4月18日, ブラジル ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Although our taxi driver didn’t speak much English, and our Portuguese is minimal and tinged with Spanish, Larry and I communicated quite well with our cabbie in Salvador.
I’m embarrassed toもっと詳しく
K-Rioca Samba Show
2024年4月15日, ブラジル ⋅ 🌙 79 °F
The K-Rioca Samba show put on an “ass-tounding” performance for our ship while we were in Rio de Janeiro. Sorry! I couldn’t resist making that pun because the women’s costumes were cheeky inもっと詳しく
Rio Street Scenes
2024年4月15日, ブラジル ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
After our jaunt through the rain forest, we took the scenic route home. It was late afternoon on a weekday, so both of Rio’s famed beaches (Ipanema and Copacabana) were fairly empty.
Our guideもっと詳しく
Tijuca Rainforest
2024年4月15日, ブラジル ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
On other visits to Rio de Janeiro, we’ve toured the city. This time, we decided to visit the Tijuca Rain Forest, a lush green space that runs through the outskirts of town.
Homes that existedもっと詳しく
Rio de Janeiro Sail In
2024年4月15日, ブラジル ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
If you ever visit Rio de Janeiro by cruise ship, make sure you watch the sail in. It’s beautiful!
Rainbows & Barfbags
2024年4月10日, South Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
When the seas are rough, cruise ships often hang little pouches with barf bags in them on railings throughout the ship.
Larry and I are lucky, however. He never gets seasick, and I almost never do.もっと詳しく
Cape Town Dancers
2024年4月10日, South Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
A local marimba band and dance troop performed for us in Cape Town.
The dancers are wearing traditional Zulu outfits, which in the old days, would not have included those black leotards.
World’s Most Isolated Island
2024年4月10日, セントヘレナ ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
Tristan da Cunha bills itself as, “the most remote island in the world.”
As you can see from the maps I’ve shared, it really is remote. Not a good place for a heart attack.
Justもっと詳しく
Barbed Wire & Baboons
2024年4月5日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌬 66 °F
This first photo visually sums up South Africa: beautiful scenery and high crime rates.
Check out the pretty lamp in the next picture: it’s surrounded by cctv cameras. Nearly every home has cctvもっと詳しく
Cruise Ship Collision
2024年4月5日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌬 61 °F
Cape Town’s nickname is “the Windy City” and it certainly lived up to that moniker today!
Despite two tugboats, the breeze got the best of our ship as we were docking this morning. The sternもっと詳しく
African Penguins
2024年4月4日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌬 66 °F
To further compensate for missing out on the cable car ride, our tour bus took a detour to Simon’s Cove, where we visited a colony of African penguins.
It’s our second visit here, but I’m notもっと詳しく
Cape Town Views
2024年4月4日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
In Cape Town, it was too breezy to take cable cars up to Table Top Mountain so our bus took us up to an overlook, instead.
While enjoying the views, we noticed a sign warning people to stay inもっと詳しく
Ushaka Sealand Aquarium
2024年4月2日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Larry and I have visited aquariums all over the world, but Durban’s may well be my favorite!
The tanks at UShaka Sealife Aquarium are located in a rusty old ship, and the decor inside makes youもっと詳しく
We ate Bunny Chow
2024年4月2日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
During Apartheid, Indian immigrants who worked on plantations were often forbidden from eating in Durban’s cafes.
As a result, they carried curry lunches to the fields by putting the meals insideもっと詳しく
Walking Around Durban
2024年4月1日, 南アフリカ ⋅ 🌬 81 °F
Of all the ports Larry and I have ever visited, Durban has the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous.
When we visited last year, more guests were mugged here than any other place we’veもっと詳しく






























































































































































































































旅行者
Looks great - love all the vibrant colours