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Will be quietly following, not just for all your beautiful photos but also for the travel tips and interesting tangents. Your posts always bring out the best of the CC community 😊

Wait! Pictures of doors? Woohoo, Jim is back! Looking forward to following along with you and Iain (a bit late) on this trip. Hope you both have a wonderful time. Vien

Have a safe trip home Jim and Iain. Thank you so much for taking us along with your wonderful journey. Love all the door pictures 🙂 Vien

Jim and Iain, I came in very late to your live post. I am spending a relaxing Saturday morning here reading through it backwards! Your beautiful story of Luke 🥲. He may have had such a tragic start but he was very lucky to have found you and to be part of your family. Your photos are typical Jim_Iain's, they are just gorgeous and so vibrant in colours with the added cheekiness (literally in some). I recognised many of the areas of the Apex in your photos, and then boom, the familiar face of Sonny! He and Liam (my butler) are the best of the already great crew members on my Apex cruise last year. I challenge you or Iain to ask Sonny for some Indonesian sambal to try with any main course in Luminae and it will be even more delish AND 🔥🔥🔥. Hope you both continues to enjoy the calm sea and the ports on the rest of your cruise. Vien

Maybe because it was the first ship I cruised on, where I spent 19 perfect days calling her home doing B2B cruising to the Norwegian fjords then Iceland and Ireland, the Apex still has my heart.

Hi Julie, I remembered you told us about this exciting cruise when I met you on the Beyond and it's here already. What a way to start a New Year. Thank you for doing this trip report, will be following along with your adventure and taking notes. Have the most fantastic trip! Vien

Hope you and Iain have a fantastic B2B sailing Jim. Looking forward to your report and of course, those wonderful pictures. I just started reading and hope to catch up by the time of your embarkation! Vien

I would like to add my thanks to you Jim for taking us along with you and Iain on this wonderful trip. Your pictures are spectacular! I just can't pick any favourites: all those sunsets at sea, all those landscapes with splashes of colours, all those pictures of the art works and of the towns and cities, all the food and many many more. Thank you so much for sharing them with us. Your reports (and @Ken), I'm sure, had many of us CC tapping our fingers waiting for the 2024 itinerary to come out! Safe travel home to you and Iain and wishing you all the best for your surgery. Ok, if I must, my favs are all those beautiful flowers 😊 Vien

Bon voyage Jim and Iain. Have a wonderful relaxing cruise. 🛳️

Will definitely be following !!! Thank you for starting this live report Jim. Wishing you and Iain a fantastic and healthy trip. As a relatively cruising newbie, I valued all your tips and advise whether you are off or onboard a ship. And, as WeBcruisingMN mentioned, I will also look forward to your wonderful photography of the trip. Happy sailing. Vien