Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Food, Lodging & Transportation - Cruises

All Hands Working Together Cruise for a Week: Meet 79 Cultures, by Jackie Chase "Experience living in the never-ending voyage of cruising." All Hands Working Together peeks below the waterline and behind water-tight doors to discover the secrets of how a crew from 79 nations were united into a guest-pleasing team on the world's largest cruise ship. Cruise travel conjures up words like passion, boundless enthusiasm, impatient yearning, and intense satisfaction. The laid-back attitudes, awesome entertain¬ment, and superb food flavors awaken a wonderful place inside. But let's not rob...

Almost a thousand years before the birth of Christ, Greeks rowed west on the Adriatic Sea, landed near what is now Brindisi, and ran form the heel of the boot of Italy to the place where Rome stands today. Hundreds of years later, Romans paved the road from Rome ot Brindisi. They did this to support military and commercial needs. In the current era, roads connected the three capital of the Christian world: Rome Ravenna, and Constantinople. Later Roman paving stones become the material for early Christian churches such as in the Square of Miracles in Pisa. (excerpt) This itinerary discusses...

Sir Walter Raleigh left his mark on Trinidad during his search for El Dorado, the City of Gold. Admiral Nelson is a hero in this part of the world, such that he gave his name to a port in Antigua. He is rumored to have ended his days embalmed in rum. Peter Stuyvesant makes an appearance in Sint Maarten, where he lost his leg, before he fought to maintain New Amsterdam as a Dutch port. In Mexico the familiar characters include Cortez, Moctezuma also referred to as Montezuma, Poncho Villa, and a very young George Patton. Although Mexico is the nearest southern neighbor to the United States,...