Category: Mediterranean

Today, we arrived in Cagliari (pronounced ‘cal-ee-arr-ee’), in Southern Sardinia. Originally, we were cooking up big plans for this port stop; looking at a couple of nature reserves some distance away from the ship; walkable, and accessible, possibly in conjunction with a bus or taxi ride, if necessary. These plans changed when we realised that it was only going to...

This was our second sea-day, between Croatia and Sardinia, where we are due to to arrive tomorrow morning. As an added attraction, today was billed as ‘Scenic Cruising’, which started with us passing through the Messina Strait, a narrow channel of water that separates the Southern tip of Italy from the island of Sicily. Our passage was early, picking up...

Today, we arrived at our final port stop in Croatia. And it was a bit of a strange, slightly stressful start… After a relaxed, leisurely breakfast, we headed for the quayside to catch the shuttle bus that had been laid on to take folks into the old town. Zadar’s cruise terminal is a large, brand new building, which seemed to...

Today, we arrived in the port of Marghera, and we had 11am tickets for the shuttle boat to take us into Venice, which meant we had plenty of time for a bit of a lie-in and a leisurely breakfast. At 11am, we climbed on board the shuttle boat and enjoyed a slow transit to the big city, which took us...