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O OH THE PLACES WE GO!H THE PLACES WE GO!



                           on’t you get                                          forgettable moments, on
                           bored? Won’t                                          and off the ship..
            “W the meals be                                                          With nearly 40 cruises
            repetitive?” “Won’t you suf-                                         under our belts, this was
            fer from cruise cabin fever?”                                        our most ambitious. In
                That’s what friends asked                                        just the first half of the
            when we announced our 62-                                            journey—from Venice to
            day Grand Voyage from                                                the Canary Islands—we
            Venice to Cape Town on the                                           visited 28 ports in 31
            Azamara Quest. Our answer,                                           days. While we had ex-
            now that we’re back:  Abso-                                          plored many of them be-
            lutely not! If anything, we were over-            fore, some were thrilling discoveries,
            whelmed by the variety—of places, people,         including Elba, Avignon, Eze, and Argostoli.
            and ship-board experiences. This wasn’t           The weather was generally kind, gifting us
            just a vacation; it was an adventure span-        with Indian summer days and calm seas,
            ning continents, cultures, and countless un-      while the sunrises and sunsets were noth-




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