Peter's Travel Blog

Today, the sea has been calm all day. I was on morning shift for my class, which left the rest of the day for doing other stuff. After lunch, we managed to bag ourselves a seat in the garden area at the very back of the ship (which is extremely popular, and it can be very difficult to find a...

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...