Author: Neil

I thought the anchor was never going to hit the sea bed, it seemed to play out for so long. Of course, […]

Until this morning I had only set foot on Spanish mainland four times, thrice in Barcelona and once in Madrid, all for […]

We felt sad, slightly, to be sat on our balcony eating breakfast and simultaneously waving to people we knew who were saying […]

The penultimate day looms for 7/9 ths of the passengers onboard, only 99 are staying on to the next cruise. Unsurprisingly the […]

We arose this morning to rain, the first majorly grumpy day in the holiday so far. Oh dear, thinks I, for Hubby’s […]

Never been to Sardinia before so was looking forward to this island belonging to Italy. Sadly when we arrived, and for the […]

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 […]