Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in England, London, United Kingdom on Jun 8th, 2019
Note: I’m writing this about six months after we returned from this trip. I find it difficult sometimes to keep up with blogging while also staying busy on vacation. But, I (usually) catch up. Here are the highlights of our last three days in London: Note #2: as mentioned here, I’m only posting this over […]
For breakfast, we walked over to Kensington High Street and grabbed pastries and coffee at Ole & Steen, a Danish bakery chain that’s built a presence in London. On our way, we agreed to visit Windsor Castle today. So, after breakfast I navigated us to Paddington Station (my “home away from home” these days) to […]
Posted in British Airways, England, Italy, London, Seaview, United Kingdom on Jun 5th, 2019
Today was largely a travel day for us. We departed the ship in Civitavecchia at 8:15. We found disembarking to be very easy — it’s one of the benefits of passengers rolling on and off the manifest at most of the ports-of-call. You simply don’t have the mad crush of an entire ship disgorging itself […]
Today’s the last day of our cruise but certainly not the least as we’re docked in La Spezia from which folks could opt to visit Florence, Pisa, or the Cinque Terre (our destination) amongst other places. We left the ship around 8:30, took a shuttle bus out of the port, and then a taxi (€15 […]
We returned to Italy today with a call in the port of Genoa. This could be used as a gateway to Milan (where we’d been before) or to the Cinque Terre (where we’ll be tomorrow). But, we opted to just visit Genoa, as we’d never really seen this city before aside from briefly passing through […]