WELCOME TO FARNSNIENTE

Some commotion in the airplane cabin wakes us from our less-than-ideal sleep. The flight attendants are moving about. It’s apparently time t

Today we fly back home, eventually. Our flight is scheduled to take off at 6:40 pm, so we have most of the day to see more of Singapore. The

In a long, sad, series of “lasts”, today is our last full day in Asia. Our goal today? Explore some of the many interesting neighborhoods in

By the time we're awake, groggy from last night’s excess, we are already docked in Singapore. We get ready and have our last meal (our last

Happy Star Wars Day! (May the fourth be with you and all that.) Our cruise director is a big Star Wars fan so we’re getting this joke from h

Today’s our last day in Ho Chi Minh City, and in Vietnam. Our flight home, in four days, looms large. We should be living in the moment but

I snap awake at 7 am and the boat is listing to one side and groaning slightly. Out the window I can see we’re in a narrow river negotiating

Once again, for the third time this trip, it’s the first of the month. Amazing. And as habit dictates we must say “Rabbit, Rabbit” as the fi

Compared with yesterday’s sleepy day at sea, today will be busy-busy, with an eight hour excursion. Looking out from our cabin balcony the s

Today is another ‘At Sea’ day, as we transition from Hong Kong to Vietnam. Being at sea, there are no excursions (wouldn’t THAT be fun!?) bu

It’s our second of two days in Hong Kong. After the ship was cleared yesterday, by immigration, it’s almost like we’re in a hotel, albeit on

We wake and look out the window, as always. Where are we and what’s the weather? Today we’re coming into Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. A loc

We awaken to another overcast day. There are whitecaps, signaling a bit of wind, but thankfully the swells are only about one meter. We hard

Tell me I’ll be drinking rum on the cruise ship and I’ll say “tell me something I don’t know”. Tell me it’ll be at 6 am and now you have my

Up at six and again at seven. Or was it five and then six? We’re not sure. The clocks got turned back last night and we’re at sea (for the

We wake to beautiful blue sky, 69 degrees, and the promise of sunshine throughout the day. We’re still in Kagoshima which is where we’ll be

The calendar says it’s the 22nd of April. That date sounds familiar because on the 22nd of February I had my last haircut, just before we le

We are in Kochi, Japan today. As is their wont, the captain and navigator somehow work it out so we’re gliding noisily into the dock just as

At 6:30am we awaken and we’re motoring slowly into the bay of Osaka. Outside it’s 64° which feels good and the water is glassy, very smooth,

When we wake this morning we’re at sea, as we should be. It’s a day at sea. No port today. We’re motoring from Tokyo down to Osaka. We’ll be