| | Day 0 - View from the Hotel Bristol Palace, Genova, Italy... | |
| | | Day 1 - View of Genova port from aboard the MSC Sinfonia. | |
| | | Day 2 - Pompei, Naples, Italy. | |
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| | Day 3 - Syracuse, Sicily. | |
| | | Day 5 - Pyramids at Sakkara, Egypt. | |
| | | Day 5 - Street scene, Alexandria, Egypt. | |
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| | Day 5 - Statue of Ramses II, Sakkara, Egypt. | |
| | | Day 5 - The Sphinx and pyramids at Giza, Egypt. | |
| | | Day 6 - Tobruk, Libya from the ship. | |
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| | Day 6 - Tobruk, Libya. We were welcomed by a government delegation. | |
| | | Day 6 - Tobruk, Libya. The sight of soldiers made some of us nervous. | |
| | | Day 6 - Tobruk, Libya. But they were as curious about us as we of them | |
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| | Day 6 - Tobruk, Libya. Kids came out of their homes to say hello. | |
| | | Day 6 - Tobruk, Libya. Ghadaffi is portrayed as a superstar. | |
| | | Day 7 - Near Tobruk, Libya. The entry to the eclipse site. | |
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| | Day 7 - Near Tobruk, Libya. We were in the middle of nowhere! | |
| | | Day 7 - Near Tobruk, Libya. Bathroom lines quickly grew. | |
| | | Day 7 - Near Tobruk, Libya. Women were asked to cover their heads. | |
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| | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The sun before first contact. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. First contact. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
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| | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
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| | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The moon inches forward. | |
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| | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. Just a sliver is left before totality. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The magic moment! | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. It's amazing how exposure changes the results. | |
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| | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The corona was huge. | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. I wish it would go on forever... | |
| | | Day 7 - Tobruk, Libya. The diamond ring just before third contact... | |
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| | Day 7 - Near Tobruk, Libya. Wide angle view of totality. Note Venus. | |
| | | Day 7 - Near Tobruk, Libya. Another wide angle view of totality. | |
| | | Day 9 - Tripoli, Libya. Ruins at Leptis Magna. | |
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| | Day 9 - Tripoli, Libya. Ruins at Leptis Magna. | |
| | | Day 9 - Tripoli, Libya. Ruins at Leptis Magna. | |
| | | Day 9 - Tripoli, Libya. Ghadaffi at the museum at Leptis Magna. | |
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| | Day 9 - Tripoli, Libya. The Roman Colisseum at Leptis Magna. | |
| | | Day 9 - Tripoli, Libya. Ghadaffi was even on the banners. (Che-style!) | |
| | | Day 10 - Malta. Co-cathedral of St. John . The Knights of Malta tombs! | |
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| | Day 10 - Malta. I love the colors of this composition. | |
| | | Day 11 - Salerno, Italy. Gothic cathedral. | |
| | | Day 12 - Back in Genova, Italy. The election is coming! | |
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| | Post-cruise - Genova Nervi, Italy. Fishing is treasured here. | |
| | | Post-cruise - Portofino, Italy. | |
| | | Post-cruise - Cinque Terra, Italy. | |
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| | Post-cruise - Cinque Terra, Italy. | |
| | | Post-cruise - Cinque Terra, Italy. The Via dell'Amore. | |
| | | Post-cruise - Cinque Terra, Italy. The Via dell'Amore. | |
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| | Post-cruise - Cinque Terra, Italy. The Via dell'Amore. | |
| | | Post-cruise - Cinque Terra, Italy. The Via dell'Amore. | |
| | | Sunsets aboard the ship were amazing almost every day. | |
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| | Sunsets aboard the ship were amazing almost every day. | |
| | | One day, I did a sequence, just to show the changing colors. | |
| | | Note distortion of the solar disk by clouds and atmospheric lensing. | |
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| | It was really cool to watch this. We were hoping to see a green flash. | |
| | | Obviously, though, the sky is too red to pass green spectrum. | |
| | | So we just watched it set with an increasing set of wonder. | |
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| | It was easy to get so caught up in the eclipse, one might miss the... | |
| | | ...awesome sky show that happens almost every day. | |
| | | This will keep me happy until the next eclipse. | |
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| | Just another day in paradise! | |
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