Category: Magellan

Today, we were at sea, as we head toward our penultimate port-of-call, Gibraltar. The sea has been a little on the choppy side today; not excessively so, and we’ve definitely experienced much rougher, but it’s been enough to upset a few folks, and numbers were a bit down for my class (a gentle boat scene) as a result. The day...

Today, we arrived in Civitavecchia (pronounced Chiv-it-a-vech-ia), and our plans today involved getting to and from Italy’s capital city, Rome. The port of Civitavecchia is huge, and transit from ship to port gate is by shuttle bus; as far as we can tell, that goes for all ships – they don’t want pedestrians wandering around by themselves, getting into trouble....

Today, we have been rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, in Cannes in the South of France. Well… maybe not the famous, but definitely the rich, and when I say ‘rubbing shoulders with’, I’m probably exaggerating slightly; more drooling at, from an appropriately safe distance. Cannes, of course, is the setting for the famous annual film festival which happens...

This morning, at around 7am, we arrived in Barcelona, the Capital city of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain. We hadn’t been given any tour escorting duties today, so we had the day to ourselves; neither Tracey or myself have been to Barcelona before, so we were looking forward to the prospect of exploring somewhere new. After a...

It’s been another relaxing day at sea. The weather has been sunny and warm, although the upper decks have been a little on the windy side, as it has been for the last couple of days. Once again, my class was scheduled for this afternoon at 2pm, so breakfast was leisurely, and the morning was spent editing video and photographs...