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Muscat Day #2
Overslept until 10:47 a.m. in Muscat, Oman. I had set my alarm for 8:20 but have absolutely zero recollection of it ever going off – and it was still set to the "on" position when I woke up, meaning it must have turned itself off after beeping for who knows how many minutes. Bummer.
Packed and checked out of the Ruwi Hotel. For the second day in a row, I missed the included breakfast. :-( I departed at 11:35 and took a ...
Queen Mary 2 in Muscat
... the original pashmina was made of, he said that that was a cotton one and that the new white one was of the finest silk, and refused to believe that he had tried to sell the first (cotton) scarf as being of the finest silk. Nevertheless, the stalls had a good selling spree, as another cruise ship, the Seaborn Pride, was also in port. As was the U.S. Navy warship, Sterret.
Nearby to Mutrah Suq is the Gold Suq, and the Portuguese built Mutrah Fort, though the latter is closed ...
Black Robes, Black Gold
... Columbia (South America) and lives here to work as a petroleum engineer. He was educated for this job in Krakow, Poland. He speaks English, Spanish, Polish, Arabic and, for good measure, Italian. He couldn’t get into the United States to work speaking his five languages so we makes more money working here. He encourages me to come to Columbia on my next trip; “you will love it there,” he happily says. He and his son appear to be the happiest people in the entire ...
Mystical Muscat
... attempting in recent years to increase tourism by marketing itself as an exotic alternative to the more touristy countries like the UAE. Today we did a guided bus tour of the city. Our introductory drive through Muscat showed a clean and quiet city full of large posters of the sultan.
Our first stop was the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, built from 1995 to 2001 and the country's largest. Located in a nice neighborhood, the mosque is built of ...
Dish-dashing around with Muscat-eers
... GRAZIE. The final words revealed MSC LIRICA. Very creative. I wonder if Joe Magic had a hand in making these props??!
I finally solved the puzzle that was bugging me for the whole cruise. Who was the Animation Team? The name appeared on a daily basis in the Programme. I imagined a series of cartoonists who were in the process of producing an animated version of our cruise. However, it transpires that the Animation Team is no other than what we used to ...
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- Wheelchair accessibility