Category: Mediterranean

Sure enough, the weather was as bad overnight as we’d expected… in fact, I think it was probably a little bit worse. The captain had warned us of impending bad seas, explaining that we’d taken an unplanned, circuitous route towards Malta, to avoid a much worse storm that was currently raging further North, in the path of our original route....

Today was our first full day at sea, and a right rocky day it’s been too. A constant swell has had the ship rocking and rolling all day, and the outer decks have been empty and occasionally very wet with squally rain showers. The tables and chairs on the Verandah Deck have been trussed up and the swimming pool emptied....

Today, we arrived in Souda Bay, on the Northern Coast of Crete, a mere shuttle bus ride away from Chania, Crete’s second largest city after Heraklion. We were on tour again; thankfully our earlier time-keeping error had apparently been forgiven and we were still on the escort payroll. The first hour of our five-hour excursion took us to a monastery,...

Today, we arrived in Santorini. It didn’t start out too well… Following our busy day yesterday, we decided a lie-in would be in order. I say ‘lie-in’, but I still set the alarm for 8:30am, which would give us time to get breakfast before going to check out today’s port. So; it was actually gone 8:30am, when I noticed a...

This morning, we arose to find (with some relief) that we were still in Piraeus, and I had my first tour escorting duty, which was to the centre of Athens, to visit the Ancient Acropolis. It was another early start, so we grabbed a quick breakfast to be down on the quayside in time to guide folks onto coaches. At...