At the end of any cruise, there’s always a ‘collection’ of ship shots. No story line, but always a good ‘memento’ of the occasion. CLICK HERE to view Google Photo Album To view captions, click on the fist photo and in upper right corner click on ‘i’ icon.
hunch prompts Agostino to drive off the expressway into the parking lot of a soul-less shopping centre in the middle of rice fields in the plains of Lombardy feeling that he might just find a traditional Italian restaurant tucked away. And yes, a stand-alone, seemingly ramshackle building emerges behind rows of parked cars. We are …
he three-week cruise from Dubai through the Suez Canal and across the Med to Monte Carlo is already a distant memory! I’m staying at the Hotel Belles-Rives in Juan-Les Pins with sweeping sea views from what was once the Art Deco mansion of F Scott Fitzgerald, (the American novelist and writer of The Great Gatsby’). …
e decide to give Rome a miss today and head north east from the port of Civitavecchia to the Italian hilltop town of Orvieto in Umbria. I want to revisit the brilliantly coloured chapel of St Brizio in the Cathedral (more correctly the Capella della Madonna di San Brizio) – famous for the fresco cycle …
his morning, turning north, we head up through the straits of Messina towards Civitivecchia and Monte Carlo. Calabria in the toe of Italy lies to the east, and the island of Sicily to the west; dolphins play alongside the ship in our wash. After lunch we sail around Mt Stromboli, a small island in the …