Virtuoso Life - January/February 2009 - (Page 34) PASSPORT BON VOYAGE Getting to know the locals in Greenland. Cool Factor SPLASHY DEBUT GREAT EXPECTATIONS Travel Dynamics International’s newest vessel, the 100-passenger Clelia II, debuts in May with a spa, elevator, hospital, and Internet-equipped library among the amenities not often found on small expedition ships. The ship explores the Great Lakes this summer, with sevenThe Veendam at sea. night voyages from Toronto, Ontario, to Duluth, Minnesota, that take in all five lakes and call at Mackinac Island, Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, and Niagara Falls. Departures: Multiple dates June 27 through September 12, 2009; from $5,595. You don’t have to be a celebrity or royalty to be godparent of a ship: Seabourn cruise line will pronounce all 450 passengers godparents of their fourth vessel, the Seabourn Odyssey, during its maiden voyage from Venice to Istanbul. After a naming ceremony and launch in Venice, the all-suite ship sets off on a Kotor Bay, Montenegro. 14-day party that includes the Dalmatian Coast, Montenegro’s Kotor fjord, and a torch-lit concert and reception in the ruins of Ephesus. Godparents will have their names engraved on an onboard plaque commemorating the occasion. Departure: June 24, 2009; from $12,243. BY JIM GULLO 34 VIRTUOSO LIFE (WHALE) PAUL ORENSTEIN, (KOTOR BAY) SIME S.A.S/ESTOCK PHOTO Dolled up: Kara Walker hits Fort Worth. Welcome to the Family
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