Ketchikan Ketchikan, Alaska might be the official name of this remote island city accessible only by sea or plane, but it has attracted a whole collection of others. These include “the First City” (a reference to the community’s proximity to Canada), “the Eagle Capital of America,”’ and “the Salmon Capital of the World.” This latter […]
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The City of fortresses, tapas, and spaghetti westerns The name Almería comes from the Arabic word Al-Mariyat meaning the mirror of the sea. Just south of Granada, set among the Sierra de Gador Mountain Range, Almería Bay welcomes you to romance and mysteries. Almería’s plazas framed with palms and historic churches are just the beginning
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Anchorage History After James Cook first explored Alaska in the late 1700s and Russia sold the state to the United States for a cool 7-ish million in 1867, Woodrow Wilson authorized the construction of the Alaska Railroad in 1915. A tent city sprung up around the headquarters of the project, called the Alaska Railroad Ship
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History of Boston Known as the “cradle of liberty,” Boston became the home of one thousand Puritans who fled religious and political persecution in Europe. Massachusetts Bay Company’s original governor John Winthrop preached the famous sermon called “A City upon a Hill,” which spoke to the special relationship the Puritans had to God. Massacres and
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New York History Indians would describe Henry Hudson’s ship as a wigwam floating on the water. Perhaps the gods had sent a messenger, they thought. Prior to landing in New York, Hudson had tried to find a passage through the polar sea from Europe. This time instead of sailing through icebergs outside of Greenland, he
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Vancouver BC History “Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.” –– Captain George Vancouver Good thing for us the prevailing breeze sent the Captain to Vancouver in 1792. Gold is what brought people in droves to the
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Meet our expedition leader Justin Hofman who will be on board the Alaska cruise the entire time as part of our Signature Expeditions program. With a lifelong passion for the ocean, Justin has spent his career observing and documenting wildlife both above and below the water. As a university student, Justin first honed this focus
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The more you travel to new destinations in your life, the more you broaden your mind and spiritual horizons. Whether you’re watching the sunset from the cliffs of Dover, taking in the view of the majestic Taj Mahal with your mate, or even lounging on the black-sanded beach of Punaluu in Hawaii, both mind and
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Packing for an Alaskan cruise can be daunting. The weather is so changeable that you can experience warm sunshine and frozen sleet during the same week, and sometimes even on the same day! The key to packing without taking your entire wardrobe is to concentrate on layers. Skip multiple heavy coats and focus instead on
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People cruise for a multitude of reasons. Some enjoy experiencing the feeling of adventure on the high seas. Others want to forget the “real world” and be pampered for a few precious days, or weeks. Some see cruises as a convenient way to get from point A to point B. The list goes on and
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Windstar Returns to Alaska in 2018 with Four New Cruise Tours With the highly anticipated return of Windstar Cruises to the scenic beauty of Alaska in May 2018 (after a hiatus of more than 20 years from sailing in the region) comes an agenda of larger-than-life adventures awaiting those boarding the 212-guest Star Legend. We
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When you travel, you enjoy immersing yourself in different cultures and expanding your mind to new perspectives. Time and experiences pass quickly. Every day is full of new and unique adventures, particularly when you’re visiting exciting and magical ports. On your trip, your five senses become thoroughly engaged. And the further afield you travel, the
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“If you wait until retirement to go see the Parthenon, you might not make it up the steps.” Wise words from an anonymous traveler. At Windstar we are applauding a growing trend among our guests: celebrating their milestone moments as they define them. We’re talking taking that cruise to Alaska because you crave one more
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Two years ago we cruised with Windstar on Star Breeze from Barcelona to Lisbon and fell in love with sailing the seas on this small luxury ship. So, when we found out Star Breeze would be cruising Costa Rica and the Panama Canal we knew it would be an ideal ship to transit the Canal.
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by Lena Katz Everyone has a mental picture of the stereotypical sunburned and hard-drinking cruiser that frequents inexpensive mass-market ships; as well as the well heeled elderly type found on a luxury ocean cruise line. However, the spectrum of typical cruise ship passengers found on mega-ships is completely different from the spectrum of personalities
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By Veronica Stoddart Janet and Tim Elliott, retirees from Wilmington, N.C., were drawn to their first Windstar cruise, in the South Pacific, by the small size of Windstar’s yachts. “The smaller number of people appealed to me,” says Janet. “The size is perfect.” What they didn’t expect, however, was that five years later on
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