he Photo Albums below have both pictures and a short story about the highlights of our travels to these touristy but fascinating places, (done the right way, of course). If you click on the map, a slideshow of all the photos in the body of the Silver Wind blog post will commence. In many …
read and cheese with a pot of tea . . . home alone . . . locked away in my cabin . . . with a book! And three days of this sailing across the Mediterranean to the next port. (Of course, I’ll succumb and be drawn ‘from my cave’ to socialise over the odd …
The Crystal Serenity sailed right up to the edge of the Piazza Unità d’Italia, the main piazza in Trieste. We went ashore and simply walked to our hotel the Duchi D’Aosta across the street. Amazing! The piazza is larger than St Mark’s in Venice and surrounded on three sides by beautifully restored Venetian, Austrian and …
Only one day to go, and I haven’t stopped to sit and listen to the sea, even for one moment on this cruise! This morning I’m on my balcony in gown having a trimmed down breakfast of one boiled egg and a slice of brown toast with my coffee with Dubrovnik glistening over there in …
There’s something mystical and exciting about gliding silently between fjords into a strange, new land as the sun comes up. It”s so quiet and I can hear the birds on shore. They are as excited with the new day as I am to be sailing into perhaps my most anticipated port of the whole …