Journey: Mediterranean Cruise Days At Sea

It’s a continuation of my journey sequence overlaying our Mediterranean cruise in July of 2010. Proper this second focuses on our third day in Barcelona, departure on the cruise  and our day at sea after which every single day this week we’re going to cowl each of our ports in Spain, Italy and France. See my Mediterranean Cruise Day 1 submit for the introduction. On the end of this submit, you’ll moreover uncover hyperlinks to all days and ports of identify of the cruise.

This will likely attainable be the shortest submit of our complete journey given that majority of the day was spent packing and prepared in line and getting positioned as soon as extra.

We spent the morning in Barcelona briefly sooner than heading to the pier to board our ship.  We had breakfast as soon as extra at Starbucks {that chocolate coulis was the lack of lifetime of me} after which packed as a lot as head to our ship, Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas.

Our first meal on the ship and me giving my husband the evil eye for making pleasant of me for putting ketchup on my scorching canine.  I’d say normal, the meals on this cruise was merely okay.  Beforehand it has on a regular basis been glorious, nevertheless this time spherical, it left rather a lot to be desired.

We layed out for only a few hours attempting to put off our pasty Nebraska pores and pores and skin.  As quickly as our luggage confirmed up in our room, we acquired cleaned as a lot as head for dinner.  We had the late seating {9:00 p.m.} this time spherical for dinner.  For these of you not conscious of how this works, you eat inside the formal consuming rooms on the same desk and time every evening dinner time.  We had an AMAZING group of people we met from our desk {will submit somewhat extra on that later} and we acquired alongside somewhat effectively.

Preparing for departure from Barcelona:

And proper right here is our lovely little room. Cruise ships aren’t recognized for his or her big sleeping quarters as you can clearly see beneath.

Day 4

Our first full day on our ship was truly the one pleasant day we had your complete journey.  I’ve not at all been on such an exhausting journey in my complete life.  Nevertheless, it was all value it!

Listed below are some highlights of the very best deck on our ship:  miniature golf, basketball courtroom, rock-climbing wall, a golf-themed bar and tons of space to place out.  We spent only a few hours laying out {nevertheless didn’t have to burn} after which went inside to various places to be taught.  Our ship moreover handed through the straight between the islands of Corsica and Sardinia so we went out to look at that as properly.

At the moment was moreover our first formal dinner on the ship.  Put collectively your eyes for the brightness of my robe.  It was one in all many few that match me on the clearance rack at Dillard’s and I didn’t truly have to pay fairly a bit so I scooped it up.  Its barely boho/hippie-ish for me nonetheless it was nonetheless cute.  I moreover wanted to embrace this sequence of photographs.  I had requested any individual at our desk to take {a photograph} of my husband and me and I had forgotten that it was on self-timer mode nonetheless from our nightly dinner outfit pose.  As quickly as we realized it {it makes a beeping noise to rearrange you} I launched forward to grab the digicam from Farah, and it was so humorous on account of she utterly turned into paparazzi mode.  All of us acquired a reasonably good giggle.

Proper right here ends the “simple” and “fast” posts.  I do know you are more than likely all questioning how I could presumably have longer posts than our Barcelona days, nevertheless I am telling you, our days from proper right here on out had been considerably intense nevertheless so pleasing.  First stop, Naples Italy.  Little did everyone knows, we would get VERY little sleep from proper right here on out.

Study in tomorrow for the truly very good start of the journey – first stop – Naples, Italy. That’s correct – it solely acquired increased!