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A young girl posing as Anne of Green Gables greets passengers at the Charlottetown pier on Prince Edward Island
lands, Iceland, Greenland, and eastern Canada. chairs or on scooters or with canes. Despite
On each ship all crew wore masks. mobility issues, nothing was going to stop
This past October we completed our first them! Not even a fear of COVID!
Holland America cruise, 14 nights from charm- The masked crew of 970 was represented by
ing Quebec City to Fort Lauderdale aboard 42 nationalities, our charming Irish captain told
Nieuw Statendam. Normally the capacity is us during a packed theater Q & A: “We had only
around 2,600; there were 2,385 passengers 99 crew during COVID on the ship instead of
(only a few wearing masks)—most from the U.S. the usual 1,000,” he explained. “It was a very
and Canada but others represented from lonely time.”
around the world. It was generally an elderly Our stateroom attendants and waitstaff were
crowd (I saw no children)--dozens in wheel- thrilled to be back at work! During this past
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