Month: July 2016

We arose to a milky mill-pond sea, hardly a ripple to be seen. We started on the forward deck for a while, […]

Having arrived already there is no sail-in today, wer’re already on stand and passengers pour off early to beat the intense sunshine, […]

Where we anchored was not the town we expected to be in! But Gozo is a tiny island so it really didn’t […]

Taormina is a curious town in Sicily nestling halfway up a volcanic hillside not too far from Mount Etna although far enough […]

What a challenge! Today we climbed from sea-level in Amalfi to Ravello at 360m above (vertical!) We tendered into Amalfi because the […]

We rise early again and today get breakfast on our balcony, whilst Captain is busy parking us in Civitavechia. We leave the […]

The promised storm was mostly avoided although there were a few crashes during the night, waves over the bow clearly didn’t happen, […]

We chose Port Palace hotel because it was the only one in the harbour that we could book with AirMiles. It’s turned […]

Yesterday was such a long day in the office that we didn’t feel like packing when we got home as was the […]