Seventeen Days, Seven Countries, 8000 Miles . . .and the winner . . .

. . . of the Amazing Race is . . . now, wait a minute. (Actually, someone said they saw racers during the previous voyage, which would fit, as the latest TAR was in Italy and the Balkans).

First: seven countries?

Italy

Vatican City

France

Monaco

Spain

Portugal

United States

Had to show our passports more in the middle of Dublin Airport than on the entire remaining part of the trip.



This is Marjorie on the mysterious Deck 17, which hangs over the bow, miles in the air it seemed. It has these lovely couches and is pretty much empty all day long (it is a disco at night, though I doubt there was a lot of disco on this cruise).



I had finished my book and so spent a lot of the last day taking pictures.

Unlike the Carnival Legend, there is shuffleboard on the Star Princess.



A pure Simpsons sky.



And what is not the last sunset. With the Bahamas straight ahead, the sky started to look like sunset, though it really wasn't close.

Someone took a nice picture of the two of us on the rail.



And we found this pool that we think is for the staff only.



And now is the last sunset.



And a view down the rail the last night at sea.



We were also photographed the night before at the last formal night.



It was a fun and relaxing time. I don't think I'd do it again, but I'm glad I did all of it once.