An Unexpected Visit to San Juan

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Kathy & I recently returned from a cruise to the Caribbean.  We’re getting pretty good at the cruise thing – this was our 23rd cruise – but we’re still practicing!

An Address I Could Live With!

This cruise was on Celebrity Summit.  Celebrity has become our favorite cruise line, mostly because they just know how to do good food and good service.  While all of the lines are good, we’ve come to really like Celebrity.

Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit
Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit

Summit is one of Celebrity’s older ships, but we chose it because it is one of their smallest, at just 2,000 passengers.  The ship we were on last year was over 4,000 passengers, while we saw a ship this time that was over 6,000!  While I would love to experience one of those ships, that’s just a shipload of too many people!

Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit
Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit

This cruise was supposed to stop at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, but Punta Cana doesn’t have a  dock for the cruise ships so it is one where they need to take passengers ashore using tenders.  The seas were too rough there for tendering, so we ended up in San Juan, PR instead.  While we looked forward to Punta Cana, we love San Juan and were not at all disappointed to end up there.

Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit
Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit

Kathy & I spent our time in port walking around Old San Juan.  We had lunch (and Pina Coladas!) at a nice restaurant that claims to be the birthplace of the drink.  More to come on that, but for now, here are a few random photos from our time walking the streets of the old city.

Random street scenes in San Juan, Puerto Rico during our cruise on Celebrity Summit

6 thoughts on “An Unexpected Visit to San Juan”

  1. Wonderful set of photos Tom. Great colours and compositions. The complete absence of people truly gives off that feeling of tranquilidad. Nice.

    1. The colors are a large part of what I enjoy about San Juan. I also have a few pictures with people in them, which may make for a separate post!

  2. Love the colors, vibrant and rich, and no people. And, 6,000 people is a “shipload” too many for me. Great series and I think continues to improve, if that’s possible.

  3. Thank you, Monte. The number of people on any ship is the biggest downside, as far as I’m concerned. We didn’t feel like 2000 was too bad, and I’ve been on ships with twice that. Of course there are ships with a lot fewer people, but the prices are way out of reach for us, especially when we want to go as often as we do. And we do! 🙂

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