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Out to Sea column for September 9/17
(c) By Jim and Barb Fox
In a world where tensions are rising, cruise
travellers are looking for a safe haven.
Canadians don’t
have to search too far as a survey finds Canada’s Maritimes is the safest
cruise destination in the world.
“This peaceful
corner of Canada offers bucolic pastures, exceptional seafood and scenery
galore,” writes Chris Gray Faust, senior editor of the Cruise Critic website.
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| A young fiddler
entertains the cruise ship crowds at Peggy’s Cove, N.S. (Jim Fox
photo) |
She acknowledges
that cruises do go to places “that some consider risky,” such as European
capitals, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Even Alaska has the
risk of bears but her list of the safest cruise destinations is “where you can
leave most of your worries behind.”
Cruise vacations
are among the safest but even so, today’s “safe haven may be tomorrow’s ugly
headline,” she commented.
The Maritime
provinces are downright friendly with many ports such as Charlottetown, Saint
John and Halifax being small, and some, such as Sydney, Nova Scotia, having
local greeters meet the ship.
The biggest risk in
this part of the world is “falling in love and not wanting to leave,” she
suggests.
The list of seven
safe cruise ports continues with the Baltic in second place.
