I always considered myself very fortunate to have cruised with my family on vacation - an unthinkable luxury when I was growing up. We have cruised on Costa three times, the last time in 2008, never on the Concordia, always in November when my kids had a week off (a New Jersey thing).
When we heard the news about the ship's accident, a few things about our trips on Costa occurred to me, that I hadn't seen discussed anywhere.
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