Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a week weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 398.

You just heard me say a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising, and today,

we're spinning that world over to Australia to get a sense of where cruising is or isn't,

really, and what's going on down under with cruising resuming.

Here we go.

The entire cruise world is upside down, inside out, and probably tie-dye at this point.

But there's a lot happening in a world in which there's not a lot happening.

And let's be real about it, there's also a

big wide world out there in terms of lots of different countries, lots of different cruise

opportunities out there. And obviously, as a U.S. resident and as somebody who covers primarily

the biggest chunk of the cruise market here in North America, it's easy for me to lose track

of what's happening outside of the U.S. So today, I thought

two things. One, I need an excuse to get PIPA back on because I love PIPA. Second, I thought it'd be

really great to be able to give everybody an update on where cruising is in Australia because

kind of an interesting enigma. And we'll get into that a little bit, but first let me welcome back to the Royal Korean blog podcast, Pippa from Ocean Time on YouTube.

Pippa, welcome back to the podcast.

Thank you, Matt.

It's great to be here again.

Absolutely.

You're slowly creeping up on Michael Poole's appearance rate at this point.

So hopefully pretty soon you'll be the, you'll eclipse him at some point and we can, the world will be good again.

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