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Good Morning from Izmir, TurkeyIt is now 11 am and it has been a very busy morning so far. We arrived into port where after yesterday’s call at Rhodes where we shared the town with six other ships, it was strange to see us being the only ship in the harbour (spelt correctly) today.
While Heidi [...]

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Welcome to Rhodes, Greece where there are seven cruise ships docked here at the old town. The only one from our family is the AIDA, the rest are ships that I am not familiar with which are part of smaller Greek lines. Heidi is downstairs in the main lounge organizing the debarkation of the tours [...]

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Good Afternoon.So, just off now to do my Welcome Aboard talk and I have just spent the last 45 minutes walking around the ship with Alan Adkins and his family. I must say that my fears are being recognized as we seem to have so many people who do not speak English. I met a [...]

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Good morning, and when I say morning, it really is, as it is 5:43am and I am going to be writing this blog as we start debarkation. Overall, it has been a great cruise and although I have met my normal share of characters, I would say that everything has gone very smoothly. I did [...]

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