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SS Norway Is Being Sold for Scrap - A Report on What a Cruise Was Like on the Legendary Vessel

The SS Norway, of the Norwegian Cruise Line, was one of the grande olde ships I had always wanted to go on. Their seven-day cruise was over Thanksgiving out of Miami to the Caribbean. It was a Big Band Cruise with dance hosts and four well-known swing bands from the past. Perfect — I like the old jazz and big band music and I love to dance but often don’t have a good dance partner. I signed up.


Sailing on the Norway turned out to be a trip back in time. She was built in 1960 as the famous SS France, more than 1,000 feet long, a 110 foot beam, and with about 2,000 passengers and a crew

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of 900 who come from all over the world.


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Cruise Friends

Basically I am a novelist. I have written one terrorist thriller entitled Nine Lives Too Many and a suspenseful, modern ghost story called The Daemon in Our Dreams. I have a new novel forthcoming which deals with rice queens. Most of my fictional activities are chronicled on my website www.senneffhouse.com . Every once in a while I like to go back to where I started as a writer in the field of travel writing. My roots. I particularly like travel writing with bits of humor interspersed. Here s a sample:


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SS Norway Is Being Sold for Scrap - A Report on What a Cruise Was Like on the Legendary Vessel

The SS Norway, of the Norwegian Cruise Line, was one of the grande olde ships I had always wanted to go on. Their seven-day cruise was over Thanksgiving out of Miami to the Caribbean. It was a Big Band Cruise with dance hosts and four well-known swing bands from the past. Perfect — I like the old jazz and big band music and I love to dance but often don’t have a good dance partner. I signed up.


Sailing on the Norway turned out to be a trip back in time. She was built in 1960 as the famous SS France, more than 1,000 feet long, a 110 foot beam, and with about 2,000 passengers and a crew

How to Get the Cruise Deal that Suits you Best
...do when booking a cruise package. It certainly will not get you a discounted cruise. This is because some cabins go unsold as the cruise date approaches, so the cruise line will create last minute discount packages to sell the ...
of 900 who come from all over the world.


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Want To Know More About Cruises and Cruise Ships?

Today, Norm Goldman Editor of Sketchandtravel.com, is pleased to have as a guest of Sketchandtravel.com Douglas Ward, author of Ocean Cruising & Cruise Ships 2005, now into its twentieth year of publication, published by Berlitz Publishing.


Thank you Douglas for accepting our invitation to be interviewed.


Norm: Douglas could you tell us something about yourself and why did you want to write a book about cruising and cruise ships?


Douglas: I had worked aboard passenger ships for 17 years before forming an association of cruise passengers, who were looking for more comparative information about cruise ships and cruising. So was born the idea for the book, which started with 120 ships and 256 pages. Today, after 20

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years, the book has grown to include 256 ocean-going ships, 656 pages, and half a million words.


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Affluent Name Recipients of December Holiday Gifts

About 90% of the married respondents to a recent survey of the affluent plan to give a December holiday gift to their spouse, and the most frequent sources of the gifts will be traditional department stores (62%) and specialty retail stores (57%). Gift cards or money equivalents will be given by about 20% of the spouses.


About one in two said they have children under 18 to whom they will give gifts. Specialty retail stores (58%) will be the most frequent source of the gifts. Traditional department stores (55%) will be a close second, and the internet and discount department stores were essentially tied (at almost 50%). Gift cards or money equivalents will be given, about equally, by about

Want To Know More About Cruises and Cruise Ships?
...complete around the world cruises there are about 15 in 2005 sail between January and April away from winter). Norm: Have you had any bad experiences on a cruise, and if so, please describe them. Douglas: I have had many ...
31% of the survey respondents.


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