Category: Holidays

At sea today so everywhere is packed. The ship is doing about 20mph so it was a bit windy doing our walk a mile this morning! We went to the towel folding demonstration this morning which was very good.. We even got an instruction book on how to make them at home which should keep…

Up early this morning for the walk a mile but the guy didn’t turn up for our ship shape dollars so that was a waste of time! Hottest day so far and very sticky, couldn’t even sit on the pool deck for more that 30minutes or so. Palermo is, unfortunately, another built up industrial port.…

You’d have to be pretty mental to go to the med in the height of summer and climb a volcano, but you’d have to be totally stupid to do that and THEN spend the afternoon walking round some ruins in the baking heat with no shade.. So that’s exactly what we did today. The volcano…

Apparently where we are today is the ‘gateway to Rome’. It’s actually a very industrial port that’s 1.5 hours drive from Rome. There doesn’t seem to be anything close by so we are staying on the ship today. This morning was very active, starting with our morning mile followed by breakfast. We then played ping…

Mmmm.. Pizzaaa… Early start today for the morning trip to Pisa. The port we were in was incredibly ugly so there wasn’t much to see on the 30 minute drive there.. Other than a huuuuge American army base. Apparently Pisa used to be on the coast but they diverted so much water away its now…

Started the day with a light breakfast on the balcony which consisted of bacon, sausage, scambled egg, hash browns, tomato, fruit, yoghurt, cereal and a selection of pastries, all washed down with juice and coffee. We easily burnt all those calories off by walking the daily mile for our ship shape dollars 🙂 Spent the…

LET THE EATING COMMENCE! Found where the ship was without any problems, too far to walk though so the nice man in the hotel organized a taxi for us. The port was chaos, hardly any staff around and nobody seemed to know where to go.. Once we had got inside the queue for normal checkin…

Flight was delayed by 30 minutes so unfortunately had to get another wine in the VIP lounge! Flight was good, taxi driver from the airport didn’t speak a word of English and was either saying our hotel was very expensive, very crap, or very seedy as we drove through one of the more colourful areas…

Free booze and working aircon!