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Wow - just caught up on day 3 and it looked just perfect! Perfect breakfast...perfect snorkle trip...little nice shopping (with a little nice rum) and just wonderful photos. You look like you should be under "happy" in the dictionary - your face just glows and it's not all sunburn!
BTW - the photo you took from inside the bush is really worth it. The colours of the flowers are lovely!
first, please let me say that it is REALLY bothering me that i've not finished this trip report yet. there's only one night and one full at-sea day left, and i fully intend to finish it. i'm OCD enough that leaving a trip report dangling like this is just not in my nature. however, i've been CRAZY BUSY. and so, for now, i bring to you just one of the many things that's been keeping me busy--a guest post about this very trip that i wrote for solo traveler blog:
add to this the fact that i had thanksgiving dinner for 10 at my home before promptly leaving on a trip to williamsburg (from which i JUST NOW returned--and no, there will NOT be a trip report for that trip! though there will be blog posts...) and the fact that my 'job' right now is writing a book...and, well, you'll understand why this is taking me so long. truth be told--this trip report is longer (word length wise) than my BOOK. which is, technically, my full time job. not good!
but i will finish it. promise. as soon as possible--whenever that may be!
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ok--it's been too long. i'm going to finish this trip report if it kills me! though you should know--the rest is going to be a bit abbreviated. i started this when there were still leaves on the trees--and today we bought our christmas tree!
after i had my cheesy bread, i made my way back to my cabin to shower for dinner. i had reservations at la cucina with my friends at something like 5:45. but first it was time to watch us sail away! so i found a spot on that upper level sun deck--where again it was VERY WINDY--to watch them untie the ship and sail away from Bermuda (frown...)
i met a very nice retired couple up there and ended up talking to them--which made me late for my dinner reservations. i actually had to interrupt in the middle of a sentence and excuse myself because i was about to be VERY late for dinner. again, who says traveling solo is lonely?
i found the restaurant and discovered my cruise buddies already seated at a great seat by a window. the restaurant was very pretty, but i found the floor to be a bit...odd...
in case you can't tell, that's carpet. huh. strange.
we were already given a little plate of appetizers, and soon we all figured out what we wanted for dinner. the menu was a bit confusing, as we didn't understand if we were supposed to order something from each section (as one of the sections was 'pizza' and another was 'pasta' and another was 'main dishes') we were told that no, we just pick pizza OR pasta OR main dish (like in real restaurant but not like on a cruise ship!) though we were told that if we'd like, we could get a pizza as an appetizer to share--and so we did. it was not very good.
i started with the calamari appetizer--which WAS very good--and then had the risotto which was only ok. i'm a very picky risotto eater, and i ate this (i've sent back more risotto than anything else in my life) it was a little under-creamy and very over-garlicky, but as a whole it was a pretty enjoyable dish.
you can kind of even tell from the photo that the pizza wasn't very good--the cheese was very low quality...
one of my dining companions got the veal with gnocchi, which looked very good. if i ever sail on the gem again, i will try this...
...but then i love gnocchi!
for dessert i had...wait for it...the panna cotta! ha! this was a panna cotta tasting, which was appropriate as i'd been 'tasting' panna cotta all week long. i know i said i'd do a parade of panna cotta at the end, but at this rate who knows when that will be. so here you go--the panna cotta tasting...
one was lemon, one was chocolate, and one was amaretto. the lemon one was fabulous. for the record, all three were much better than the ones i'd been enjoying in the main dining room. they were more...rich? i could so go for some panna cotta right now!
after dinner we retired to spinnaker--the common area in which i spent the most amount of time--for the evening's entertainment. sadly, because i was so full, i didn't even bother to go LOOK at the chocolate buffet. i guess that's just another reason to go on another cruise!
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I've just read through your entire TR and I'm loving it! Bermuda is gorgeous!! I didn't realize that the water would be so BLUE in Bermuda. I think I need to look into a cruise out of Boston to Bermuda! Looking forward to the rest of your TR!
I've just read through your entire TR and I'm loving it! Bermuda is gorgeous!! I didn't realize that the water would be so BLUE in Bermuda. I think I need to look into a cruise out of Boston to Bermuda! Looking forward to the rest of your TR!
glad you enjoyed it! and yes, the water is insane. i didn't even mess with the saturation on any of the beach photos, because i didn't need to!
i'd strongly suggest a boston to bermuda cruise...while you still can. it seems that more and more cruise lines are forgoing bermuda stops for some sad reason. i'd like to do one more before they become a distant memory.
sorry that i haven't posted in a while--i only have one day left to write about but i've been SO BUSY lately!
I just saw this and read it through! I've always wanted to visit Bermuda and now I REALLY want to visit it! Thanks Tracy for the report and I'm looking forward to more.
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though there will be blog posts...) and the fact that my 'job' right now is writing a book...and, well, you'll understand why this is taking me so long. truth be told--this trip report is longer (word length wise) than my BOOK. which is, technically, my full time job. not good! 
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