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A change in plans…
May 25, 2025 Our new captain, Captain Paul Adams, (ship captains work 3 months on-3 months off) called a general meeting of all passengers yesterday. The captain showed us a picture of the Greenland Sea, full of white caps, and asked the audience if we could identify the ice growlers (small ice bergs) from the
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Greenland…
May 26, 2025 Here is the blog I researched and prepared for our arrival in Greenland. Let’s hope we are able to disembark in Qaqortoq so that I can get some photos for you. Greenland is not green. So how did we end up with this country’s flagrant advertising? Why isn’t it called wind swept
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Qaqortoq, Greenland…
May 26, 2025 This is a tender port and because of storm conditions in trying to transfer passengers on to the tenders and maneuver the tenders to makeshift docking areas we have been rerouted away from Qaqortoq, Greenland and will sail to our next scheduled ports St. Anthony and St. John, Newfoundland, Canada. This was
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Newfoundland, Canada…
May 27, 2025 I am so interested and excited about our arrival in Newfoundland, Canada tomorrow. I am especially excited about visiting St. Anthony, a city with healthcare at its very core. For most of its history medicine in the far reaches of Newfoundland, Canada’s eastern most providence had no resemblance to what we now
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St. Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada
May 28, 2025 People in St. Anthony still tell stories about Wilfred Grenfell, M.D., as if he were a member of their family. Today, there is a hospital that bears his name. But his real legacy is that people are still here, they did not desert the area. Some industries remanences about the old days.
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St. Anthony, Part 2…
May 28, 2025 Health care started out as something simple. If you were hit with a stick, someone patched you up. If you feel off your horse, someone pulled you out of the mud and set with you until the shaking stopped. In the beginning medicine was all about the visible, arrow in the leg,
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St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
May 29, 2025 A beautiful day in St. Johns! For more than 500 years, St. Johns has been visited by European explorers, adventures, soldiers and pirates. St. Johns, the provincial capital, is the economic and cultural center for Newfoundland. First discovered in 1497 by John Cabot, St. Johns has a rich and colorful history. It
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Saint Pierre, France…
May 30, 2025 How did we end up back in a French possession and had we known we wouldn’t have spent all those last Euros in the Netherlands! Saint Pierre is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France. France and Britian, as they did in many parts of the world fought over this area for years. Under the
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada…
June 1, 2025 We have been to Halifax, Novia Scotia (“New Scotland”) before because many cruises to New England and Canada stop at Halifax. Our goal was to visit Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and I specifically wanted to see a special schooner. In 1995, UNESCO designated Lunenburg a World Heritage Site. It is considered the best example of a
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Portland, Maine…
June 2, 2025 Whenever I can I try to visit Presidential Museums or Presidential Residents. As we were in Portland, Maine we thought we would take a quick excursion to Kennebunkport, Maine to see how the Bush family lived. Enroute to Kennebunkport, we took a tour through Portland, Maine. Portland’s success has always been tied
The Hope For Today Charitable Fund. Seeing God's hand at work… Around the World.
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