August 16th : Barcelona, Spain The magnificent capital of old Catalonia welcomes us with 40°C weather, welcome to Spain! The Equinox is here until 11pm tonight, so we should get to see quite a fair amount. It is currently 9pm and we are officially dead tired. We easily walked more today than at any other […]
Continue ReadingCruise – Day 8 (Cartagena)
August 15th : Cartagena, Spain Today we landed in the Spanish port of Cartagena, on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. This is our second last port visit on this cruise, our last being tomorrow (Barcelona) as the day after that is at sea. As we had no tours booked, we went ashore and did […]
Continue ReadingCruise – Day 7 (Gibraltar)
August 14th : Gibraltar, United Kingdom (Territory) This afternoon we will arrive in the United Kingdom’s territory of Gibraltar which has long been the ‘gates to the Mediterranean’. The day started with a bit of housekeeping – hand washing a few items of clothes before a latish breakfast in the Oceanview Cafe. At about 11am […]
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