On Board Olympia Explorer 2002

We thoroughly enjoyed our 2002 circumnavigation of SA. We

had a wonderful small ship and excellent enrichment speakers.

Ted, an astronomer who put together eclipse cruises was in

charge of the enrichment program. Participants included:

Captain Loren McIntyre

            I like to call him a modern day explorer. He traveled

            and photographed Brazil and other SA countries. He

            had at least two National Geographic covers. His lectures

            covered many not often seen areas of SA. We visited

a recently discovered archaeological site and he said he

was doing a photography shoot in Brazil and when he

checked in with his wife she said National Geographic was

trying to contact him to  photograph this site, but he had

to turn it down because  he had invested a lot of money

(airline pilot) for the shoot he was doing and couldn’t afford

to leave, thus missing the opportunity to be the first to

photograph this site.

Sergei Khrushchev

               Son of Nikita and professor at Brown University

               We first heard Sergei on a Mediterranean cruise shortly after

               he obtained American citizenship. It was so interesting

               to hear the other side of the story. Having lived through

               his father’s leadership, at first it was amazing to realize

               who we were talking and listening to.

Chef Andre Soltner

               Owner and head chef of Lutece restaurant in NYC

These were the top three favorite speakers the cruise line used

And we had them all at the same time.

But we also had others

               Archaeologist

               Geologist

               Ambassador

You can see how we got spoiled for future cruises. We have

heard many excellent speakers, but never of the quality and

quantity of those on Royal Olympic. We were very disappointed

when they went out of business.