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April 27, 2025 For today I am writing about one of our recent Sea day’s. Generally we have quite a few sea days on a long cruise. I call them rest days. It is especially nice after having 4 or 5 Port days in a row. There are usually a variety of lectures throughout theContinue reading “Seaday”

April 29, 2025 Today is our last stop on this side of the Atlantic. First of all, I like to go back to yesterday’s power outage in Portugal. We always think what would happen if we got hit by an earthquake or a devastating flood which would likely knock the power out for extended time.Continue reading “Tangiers, Marocco”

April 28, 2025 Early this morning we sailed under the Vasco de Gama bridge into the port of Lisbon , the capital of Portugal. Lisbon is situated on the Tagus river. Here in the city, the river is nearly a mile wide. As we have visited Lisbon before, we scheduled a 4.5 hour tour toContinue reading “Lisbon, Portugal”

April 26, 2025 Around 8:00 AM this morning we were cleared by the Spanish authorities to go on shore. For today we planned to do our own walking tour  into town. We left the ship around 8:30 and walked through the streets, which were not very crowded at thís time. It was very much aContinue reading “Alicante, Spain”

April 25, 2025 Good morning from Barcelona, capital of Catalonia. This looks like a busy cruise port 5 ships in 5 different terminals. We were able to dock behind the HAL ship the Volendam. We parked our ship with our back deck facing the Voledam back deck. This was in anticipation of a drone showContinue reading “Barcelona, Spain”

April 23, 2025 Today’s stop is the Italian Island of Sardinia. Our Port City today will be Olbia, a city of approximately 60,000. There is a variety of sea ferries leaving from this port to several destinations on the Italian mainland. No tours booked today. We are only here till 2:30 this PM. We areContinue reading “Olbia, Sardinia, Italy”

April 22, 2025 Overnight we moved from Naples to Civitavacchia, which is the port City for Rome. Rome is the Capital of Italy with nearly 3. 8 million citizens. We had an early morning to catch our bus to take us to the City of Rome for an all day trip. We left the shipContinue reading “Rome, Italy”

April 21, 2025 Overnight we cruised from Greece to Italy. Last night we cruised through the strait of Messina, with a view of the volcanoes Edna an Stromboli. Apparently Stromboli squirted out some lava later that night. That’s why it is called the lighthouse of the mediterranean. For today we are anchored in the cityContinue reading “Napels, Italy”

April 19, 2025 Good Morning, Overnight we moved from Turkey to Athens in Greece. Athens is the country’s capital. The urban area is home to 3,6 million citizens. Today was a nice sunny morning, with a predicted high of 22 deg C. For today we were going to be engaged in a city tour withContinue reading “Athens, Greece”

April 18, 2025 After a relaxing  day at sea, we had a chance to recover from our exciting day in Egypt. This morning we arrived in a new country, Kusadasi , Turkey. Kusadasi is a beach resort and a major cruise port. The population is approximately 140,000 people. The shores are lined with sandy beachesContinue reading “Kusadasi, Turkey”