Month: July 2022

We’re thinking of running a competition for longest walk across a port. Yesterday in Barcelona, over 2.5 miles, today in Valencia it’s […]

We arrive in Barcelona on a sultry Sunday, walking anywhere is easy because the streets are very quiet. We head off with […]

Standard breakfast, standard photo call! Last time we were in Mallorca we were travelling with friends John and Sheila, we hired a […]

Overnight we move from French to Spanish waters, our first day of many is in the Catalan port of Palamós on the […]

Sete is not a town with which we’re familiar. Yet another town considered the “Venice of …” because it has a few […]

Previous time in Bandol we turned right and headed East along the coast. Pretty obvious what’s required today, and that’s what happens, […]

Last time we were here, on this very ship, we tendered into Santa Margherita Ligure and walked to Portofino. This time we’re doing […]

We breakfast in the port of Livorno. Any experienced cruiser will know Livorno as the gateway to Pisa and Florence. Indeed we’ve […]

We rise with full anticipation of an exciting day ahead – the day we join the ship – enjoy breakfast and then […]

The Borghesi family is a bit like Italian royalty, this dynasty has a lineage tracing back to C13, not always in Rome, […]