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.
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 …
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 …
fter transititing the Suez Canal in daylight hours, we exit into the Mediterranean at Port Said and head north to Ashdod Port in Israel; temperature has dropped almost twenty degrees from our days in the Red Sea; pleasant enough for Bloody Marys and lunch on deck by the pool for the first time. A week …