When my wife and I were shopping for our next cruise, we briefly considered a sailing from Dubai to Rome, before we realized that the flight to Dubai is prohibitively long for someone with severe fibromyalgia.
It’s a shame, however, because steaming around the Arabian Peninsula sounds rather exciting these days.
From the New York Times:
Pirates chased and shot at an American cruise ship with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, officials said Tuesday.
The captain of the cruise ship, the M/S Nautica, ordered passengers inside and gunned the engine, allowing the ship to outrun the pirates’ speedboats in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, a company spokesman said.
