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Posts archive for: 27 June, 2008
  • Day 11 Alicante

    Now, I’ll let you into a little secret. When I first met my wife, over 15 years ago, the first real holiday we ever went on was to Benidorm. Now at the time I knew nothing about the place but very quickly got to grips with the place and we ended up going back about half a dozen times. We really enjoyed the place and if we didn’t like cruising then I’m sure we’d still be going there. So when we found out that today we could take a day trip to Benidorm, we jumped at the chance.

    We set off nice and early from the ship for a 45 min coach ride. We were dropped off right in the centre of Benidorm and had mostly the whole day to explore on our own.

    We visited all the old haunts, stopping for a beer each time!! – Then we hade some lunch and a little shopping before a few more beers. One thing I could not get over was the number of motorised scooters there were, you know the type used by people with walking difficulties. They were everywhere on the roads, on the pavements in the shops and bars.

    Nevertheless, we had a great time and were a little sad when it was time to re-board the coach back to the ship.

    Tomorrow it’s Gibralta.

  • Day 10 - Relaxing Day at Sea

    Not really a lot to report today, other than we had a very lazy and relaxing day at sea.

  • Day 9 Civitavecchia – The Port For Rome

    We arrived here nice and early in the morning, around 7.30am, this was so all the tours could get off and into the Italian Traffic. We have been to Rome a couple of times before, so we decided this time to spend the day relaxing on board. This evenings entertainment was very good, a Comedian by the name of Adrian Walsh. Now I do vaguely remember seeing him on TV some years back, but no matter. He was very funny, not rude and did not pick on anyone in the audience, which was good. Up on the main deck there was a production of ‘Plunder’ which involved the singers and dancers in a Pirate themed show around the main pool. We didn’t go up but were told it was quite good. Later in the Exchange they had video horse racing. Amanda won £12 and I won £50 at blackjack, so all in all not a bad day. Tomorrow we have a lazy day at sea, so I’ll check back with you when we get to Alicante.

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