Cruise Food & Travel Guides
Cruising is where my two great travel questions meet: what is there to eat on board and what can we find the moment we step off the ship? These cruise stories move between sea days, specialty restaurants, tiny cabins, shore excursions, river markets and expedition ships, with the useful details I always want before booking and the meals that make each port feel worth the journey.
It is time for our return voyage back to Ushuaia, Argentina, back to land and away from the Antarctic Waters. That means crossing the Drake passage again and its potentially wild, inhospitable waters. We were lucky on the way out with incredibly calm, glassy seas, so smooth that we made the Drake crossing in one and a half days instead of the customary two days. This evening, the swells are higher, which send some people straight to their state room, where they lay low.
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