October 17, 2011
Diving Mauritius: A Day in Tamarin Bay
After South Africa, we had five days of smooth sailing across the Indian Ocean with a day in Mauritius as the next destination. In past...
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October 12, 2011
Lazy in Langebaan: By the South African Sea
When we picked Langebaan as our South African weekend destination, I didn’t honestly know what we’d do there. Strike that; my plans...
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October 10, 2011
South Africa Beach Retreat: Luxury in Langebaan
After we left Yzerfontein, it was another half an hour up the road to our weekend destination. We got off the R27 and headed inland to the...
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October 5, 2011
Out of Africa: Langebaan Road Trip Time
After a very rocky six days of sailing from Ghana, along the western coast of Africa and around the Cape of Good Hope, we arrived in Cape Town...
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September 30, 2011
A Glimpse Into Ghana’s Slave History on the Cape Coast
Some years, the M/V Explorer docks in Takoradi, which is much closer in proximity to the Cape Coast. Due to a too-short berth Takoradi granted...
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September 29, 2011
Castles + Dungeons: Ghana’s Tragic Past
Semester at Sea offers 300 trips through its international field program, distributed among the 14 stops we’ll be making. These range...
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September 21, 2011
Visiting Ghana, Africa’s Most Interesting Country
Two nights before the MV Explorer arrives in a country, we have a cultural pre-port that all Semester at Sea participants attend. This can be...
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September 19, 2011
From Pollywog to Shellback: Neptune Day on Semester at Sea
This past Saturday, the morning after the Semester at Sea ship departed from Ghana, was meant to be a Reading Day. This is a chance for the...
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September 16, 2011
Scenes from a Moroccan Riad in Marrakech
I spent more than two hours writing a blog post to accompany these photos from our recent visit to Morocco, and when I hit “save”...
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September 9, 2011
Cruising to Casablanca, Morocco’s Industrial Port
When we arrived in Casablanca, Morocco last Saturday, it wasn’t exactly the sexy image you might expect to see. But I’d...
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