Category: Cruises

Today, we arrived in Piraeus, a major cruise port adjacent to the capital city of Greece. We’ve been to Athens a couple of times before… on our first visit, we travelled into the city by public transport and did the whole ‘visiting the Acropolis’ thing by ourselves. On our second time here, we escorted shore excursions to the Acropolis; tours...

This morning, the captain made an announcement saying that the eagle-eyed amongst us may have noticed that we were not moving at all. He explained the reason for this was because we had some extra time ‘in the bank’ (as he described it), so they were using the opportunity to perform some ‘Drifting Calculations’. He defined this as turning the...

Right from the off, we knew today was going to be a hot one, with the sun rising on the starboard side, and shining full onto our balcony. By the time we were up and about, the ship had already made the small journey from where we’d dropped anchor for the night, rounded into the bay and been cleared for...

Today, we were once again at sea, heading towards our next destination, Argostoli. This meant I had classes to run; a continuation on the theme of trees, only this time featuring the summer variety. At breakfast this morning, we got chatting to one of the musicians, Joanne, who I discovered is responsible for playing the piano at 12noon every day,...

This morning, at around 9am, we arrived in Valletta, on the island of Malta. Once again, we were not booked on any excursions; instead, we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast, gathered our going-out things together, and went ashore at about 10:30am. We had a rough plan, but were happy to be distracted and swayed by anything that we might stumble across...