Day Thirty Nine - February 13 Today's port was San Diego once again. We arrived at 07:00 and departed from here at 15:00. We really enjoy San Diego so we were not disappointed to return. The city is under an extreme heat warning as the temperatures are above the seasonal norm. Jack, our art instructor suggested that we should check out the art store Blick Art Supplies situated in the heart of Little Italy. There must have been at least a dozen other cruise pa...

Day Four We are in San Diego for another day. Do you remember our mix up with night light tour from the previous day with Old Town Trolleys well we were fortunate to receive a refund for it. Waking up this morning we noticed another Dam ship was docked in San Diego. It was the Koningsdam with a maximum passenger capacity of 2,600 while our ship has a maximum capacity of 684 passengers. This ship was massive compared to ours. A brief history lesson now. Juan...

Day Three brought us to the wonderful city of San Diego. For some of the Around the World passengers it was the second time that they visited the city as they had stopped on the way from Miami. San Diego, named after Saint Didacus, is the eight largest city in the United States and second largest city in the state of California. As mentioned in the previous blog we were intending to visit San Francisco where Oceania had planned two full days of tours. Janice an...

Day Two Our first sea day originally scheduled to sail to San Francisco was changed as the authorities in the port of San Francisco decided that everyone on board needed to have a PCR test before leaving the ship. This would have been very time consuming so the decision to sail here was cancelled and the ship sailed south to San Diego. Cool and cloudy temperatures were the norm for the day. I joined a Trivia team that includes four Americans, a transplated Par...