John Heald's Blog

Good Evening from Cannes, the South Of France. We are getting ready to leave after a beautiful day and one where, unlike the last two times we have called here, we did not need to reposition the vessel because of high winds. There was, however, a point where we stopped the tender service for [...]

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Hello everyone and welcome back.Today, we are at sea and I begin this blog after just finishing my debarkation talk and Q and A. I received the usual questions and I have to say some people seem very confused about traveling still and I sometimes wonder how they made it here.
An example from today’s open [...]

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Good Morning.It is 6:30am here and we arrived 45 minutes early this morning in the port of Messina, Sicily. It’s nice to get into a port early which is not always possible but today the Captain had us alongside at 6:20am and once again the sun is shining and it is expected to reach 90 [...]

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Good Afternoon.I have finally found time to sit and do a little blogging after a busy day with the morning show, travel talk, marriage show etc etc. I also just finished an on camera interview about the blog and the Carnival Freedom’s venture into the Mediterranean for an NBC station in Miami (Channel 6, I [...]

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