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Last chance at low-cost Mediterranean cruises (MSNBC)

As fall ends, the Mediterranean season comes to a close and Caribbean sailings get under way full throttle.

Disney Cruise Line offering trips to Northern Europe, Mediterranean (The Salt Lake Tribune)
The popular Disney Cruise Line will redirect one of its ships, the Disney Magic, to Europe for a five-month season of Northern European and Mediterranean cruises in 2010. It will offer a 12-night northern European capitals cruise with stops in Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Stockholm, Sweden, and an overnight in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russian ships to Venezuela in show of power (AP via Yahoo! News)
The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela next week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin's ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status.

Russian ships to Venezuela in show of power (The Charlotte Observer)
(By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer) The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela next week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin's ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status. But the arrival of the 24,000-ton nuclear-powered vessel and its escorts may mark the end of an era ...

Liner notes: All at sea with John Walsh (Independent)
It was probably pure coincidence that Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" was playing on the PA system as our coach pulled up in Fort Lauderdale harbour and we first laid eyes on the Celebrity Solstice where she lay at anchor like a fat skyscraper. Beside it, the Titanic suddenly seemed pretty small fry. Nobody could look at this massive, towering, sleekly bulky ziggurat of maritime elegance, ...

Posted in Mediterranean cruises on November 22, 2008
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