Entries from August 2007

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

John Heald Interviews Alan Buckelew & Bernie Warner; Visits Queen Victoria

Carnival’s John Heald has kept his blog busy with interviews with Princess CEO Alan Buckelew - continuing his series of Carnival Corporation & plc Presidents and CEOs - and Cunard Commodore Bernie Warner along with a visit to Queen Victoria at Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in Venice. While the ship is of course still unfinished, John [...]

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Refits, Expedition Ships for Silversea

Seatrade Insider reports that at a media event in Sydney, Silversea Cruises‘ Amerigo Perasso announced that the company’s two oldest ships, Silver Cloud and Silver Wind, will receive extensive refits. Silver Wind will be drydocked for a month in October 2008, and Cloud will be drydocked in April 2009.
According to the article, Perasso also said [...]

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Peter Knego’s Blue Aegean Blog

While I was away in France, Maritime Matters‘ Peter Knego was blogging from Monarch Classic Cruises’ Blue Monarch and Golden Star Cruises’ Aegean Two (on charter from Louis Cruise Lines) in Greece.
Click here to read about Peter’s latest Aegean adventures.

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Return from the River

I know I said normal service would resume yesterday, but with the usual post-trip frenzy, I’m afraid today will have to do. Please accept my apologies!
I realize I’ve been absent a lot in the past few weeks but I promise that everything will be much more normal for a good long while now… Barring anything [...]

Thursday, 23 August 2007

Rollin’ on the River

As I said last week, I’m away this week on Uniworld’s River Royale in the South of France on assignment for Cruise Critic.
As always, normal service will resume as soon as I return (in this case Tuesday, 28 August).
Thanks for hanging in there through all my recent absences - I promise I will not be [...]