Travel

The view from our apartment window this morning (March 14): Mark went on a second walking tour on our final morning in the city, while

Today was our bus tour down to Cape Point. We walked to the City Sightseeing tour office at 81 Long Street to wait for our

The cruise ended–for us–in Cape Town. The Norwegian Dawn had a final port of call in Lisbon, and some passengers, Larry included, were cruising from

Our cruise had three ports of call before we disembarked in Cape Town, and we enjoyed day trips in each of Richards Bay, Port Elizabeth

Our first port of call after departing Port Louis, Mauritius was Antsiranana, Madagascar on March 4. We arranged with Larry’s cabinmate Marc to hire a

Mark and I took a cab from our hotel to the cruise check-in point at the Port Louis harbour. Our ship was the Norwegian Dawn,

Mark and I had originally booked our tour of Mauritius for Thursday, February 27, yet understandably it was cancelled on account of tropical cyclone Garance.

We were lucky that we were able to fly out of Réunion as the approach of tropical cyclone Garance forced the cancellation of all later

Mark and I booked a tour of the island on February 24. It was an early start; we had to meet our driver downstairs at

Mark and I flew to Réunion from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on February 21. The flight was 10½ hours long, which was the