Category: Travel Journey
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World Cruise Day 100 🎉🥳🍾 April 29, 2023
As crazy as it is to know we’ve been onboard for 100+ days, it will be hard to go back to our everyday lives. I do miss my family and friends. Thank goodness for FaceTime audio calls and email! Not to mention the convenience of having a computer in my pocket, my iPhone! 📱📱📱😁😉😅 I…
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida Day 98 April 27, 2023
We went on an Airboat ride in the Florida Everglades. The Everglades is a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve.
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Bermuda Triangle Day 96 April 25, 2023
Well, I guess I really have been most everywhere, now that we are passing through the “Bermuda Triangle!” 😅😆😉😜😜😜 Total of seven sea days as we cruise across the Atlantic Ocean. 🌎🌎🌎 I still have one more Canary Island day to post. I thought the website was down but now realize it’s something else. I…
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Canary Island of La Palma: Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain Day 90 April 19, 2023
Santa Cruz de la Palma is the 2nd largest city and the capital of the island of La Palma. We went on a tour to the volcano 🌋and to a bodega for wine tasting. 🍷🍷🍷 Next, a quick photo stop! Next, we visited the volcanic land area created by nature. I got a volcanic rock…
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Canary Island of Lanzarote: Arrecife, Spain Day 89 April 18, 2023
Lanzarote is seventy miles away from the African mainland and the northernmost of the four Canary Islands. We walked around the lovely marina on the way to shopping!!! 😎😎😎🤑🤑🤑😅😅😅 The island has a population of about 142,000 people, so not a big city. Yet they have an Ikea Store! Bartender competition yesterday afternoon. Extremely entertaining!…
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Casablanca, Morocco Day 87 April 16, 2023
Play it again Sam! Yes, Casablanca sounds so exotic. Hoping I can take a photo of Rick’s Cafe Americain. 😅😜😜😜 I have been to the African continent once before, Egypt in 2009. But this is quite exciting. Last night when we left Malaga, Spain sailing towards Casablanca, we went through the Staight of Gibraltar right…
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Malaga, Spain Day 86 April 15, 2023
We are loving Spain! Today’s we toured the city of Malaga and went to a church in old town, the Picasso Museum, and to an ancient Moorish fort, Alcazaba. First was the city tour by bus. Malaga has clean streets and a nice layout. Next a walk through Old Town to see a church, the…
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Barcelona, Spain Day 84 April 13, 2023
My first time in Barcelona! So exciting! 😄😄😄 This is Barry’s favorite city. We went to the La Sagrada de Famila, architect Antoni Gaudi’s masterpiece which was begun in 1882 and still not completed. What a beautiful basilica! From the outside it’s got oodles of details and I wasn’t really convinced of it’s “beautiful” reputation.…
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Marseille, France Day 83 April 12, 2023
We went into town on our own via the ship’s shuttle service. Beautiful architecture and the marina surrounded by sidewalk cafes was lovely. However, lots of graffiti etc. We have been here before & have toured the church, Notre-Dame de la Garde. Just a quick stroll through the marina and surrounding neighborhood of Marseille. An…
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Monte Carlo, Monaco and Nice, France Day 82 April 11, 2023
“Easy Menton and French Riviera Drive” was our tour. We mostly drove through Nice, France, We also stopped at a perfume factory. Looked up at the hilltop town of Eze. Then we got a bird’s eye view of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Lastly, we got free time in Menton, France. Then back to the ship. Our…