Left Singapore on a 7 a.m. flight. Stopped in Tokyo and had time to buy a few more candies at the duty-free shop to take back to friends. Ended up with only an hour and fourteen minutes between flights. We hustled through the process of going through immigration, grabbing our luggage to take through customs, dropping it back off to be checked through for the last flight home, changing terminals (but thankfully it was just one away), waiting in line for security c...

The ship docked by 7 a.m., and we had to vacate our stateroom by 8 a.m. A few days ago when the ship was preparing to dock, they asked us to give them the time that we wanted to leave the ship. At that time we were unaware of the requirement to vacate the room by 8, so we asked to leave at 9 a.m. It turned out all right as we were ready and left the room by 8 and went to the dining room for breakfast while we waited for our group to be called for departure. Wh...

Just one more day to do mostly nothing. Philip and I went to the Culinary Show and Ship's Galley tour in the afternoon. The show was surprisingly entertaining. The maitre d' played straight man to the executive chef's funny guy routine while they prepared several dishes available on the dinner menu: linguine al pesto all moda ligura, scampi fra' diavolo, a salad, and tiramisu. Afterward, we were invited on a galley tour. It was disappointing and boring. We simply...

Originally, we planned to take one more shore excursion at this last port. However, we changed our minds a few days ago. I think we are now tired of the feeling of moving so quickly from one thing to another without having much opportunity to see anyone who is not involved in the tourist industry. The tours have been fun and interesting, but enough now. Or perhaps we are just tired from all the very draining hot weather. Either way, we decided to stay behind. We ...

I have been looking forward to visiting Vietnam again since we had such a great time here a few years ago. Nha Trang is a resort city on the southern coast. They have no large berths for the type of ship we are on so we have to take a tender to get to and from land. I prepared with my Dramamine, but it wasn't necessary. The ride wasn't too bad and took only ten minutes once we got going. Another shore excursion from the ship kept us busy most of the day, but it...