This is a European cruise on the Jewel of the seas. Departing on the 15th for 9 nights. But the trip actually starts on the 11th when we all meet in London to fly over to Rome for a few days, then we catch the ship on the 15th.
Itinerary
Day 1 Rome, Italy | Day 2 Cruising | Day 3 Chania, Crete | Day 4 Mykonos, Greece | Day 5 Rhodes, Greece | Day 6 Santorini, Greece | Day 7 Athens, Greece | Day 8 Cruising | Day 9 Naples, Italy, Day 10 Rome, Italy.
Good morning, well despite going to bed early last night most of us had a restful evening and no doubt Elaine had the worst night confined in there room. But today we were in Naples and the 6 of us were catching the boat over to Capri for a full day on another boat touring the island. But first we had to catch what we thought was going to be a hydrofoil boat over to Capri, we walked the short distance from the ship to the ferry port and boarded…
Read MoreNot a lot happening today as we are at sea all day today en-route to Naples, so everyone got up this morning when they wanted for breakfast and we all eventually met up on the pool deck for some sun bathing but the weather today was not that great in fact we thought we would get some rain at some point, either way as there was not much more to do we all stayed out and kept the drinks coming from our very helpful bar staff. The day was broken…
Read MoreToday we are in Athens, all of us were going to allow ourselves to wake up naturally without any breakfast or alarms which was short lived as the ship arrived early this morning which meant a early and unwanted wake up, as we are on the 3rd floor we hear everything that goes on when the ship docks so we had loud bangs scraping sounds for hours. Most of us decided that we would not get off here as the main attraction was the Acropolis which was a 30 minute…
Read MoreI think I can say for the rest of us that todays visit to Santorini was going to be the highlight of this trip, its a place Lorna and myself have always wanted to visit. And the rest of the gang was equally excited to see this wonderful place. So this morning none of us ate on the restaurant as we had to pre book our transfer to Oia which could only pick us up from the top of the cable car and as we had to tender in from…
Read MoreToday we woke up in Rhodes. The ship had docked early again and we all decided to let the masses head off into town before us and had a hearty breakfast. We were not all entirely sure what to do today but we all definitely wanted to visit Rhodes old town, as this was right opposite where the ship was docked we all walked off into town. 4 of us wanted to go to the beach and as we only have a few hours in Rhodes it was going to…
Read MoreAnother day another port, today we are in Mykonos, we must have arrived quite early this morning because we were already docked when we woke up, which was around 9am. We all agreed to meet at 11am and disembark, some of us went for breakfast and some just hung around. But at 11 we got off the ship and walked the short distance to the water bus which would take us over to the town centre. The trip only cost 8 Euros return and it wouldn’t take us long before…
Read MoreToday we arrive in Crete but not until around 12 midday, so we all agreed to meet in the main restaurant for breakfast, last night was a time change so we all had to adjust our clocks forward one hour, for some reason not everyones phones switched over to the new time so some of us were a bit late getting ready we eventually sat down together and ordered breakfast at about 10:30am. After breakfast as we were all dressed for the day and ready to go we went up…
Read MoreGood morning form the Jewel Of The Seas, we all had a late night last night and a very easy day today so not a lot to report. But we all ventured out on deck at various times but by about mid day we were all sat down in the sun on deck in front of the climbing wall, we all just wanted to chill out today well that was until Kelly decided that she was going to go on the climbing wall, and those of you that know the…
Read MoreSo this morning we were all up ready for our 10am collection for the Cruise port and day 1 of our cruise. It will take about an hour to get to the port and we ordered 2 mini vans. But the first van that turned up was a 8 seater and huge, the driver also told us that the other van was on his way, but stuck on the other side of town because the streets were being closed off for a marathon race today, so a little worried we…
Read MoreSo today is our last full day in Rome, and quite frankly its just as well as we are all broke, this place is seriously expensive anyway never mind all that. Today we were going to see a few more vistas and started the day with the Aventine Keyhole which is a good view through a keyhole, yes I know but its on the list so we are going. We arranged for a 8 seater taxi to meet us right outside the hotel which was great so the day starting…
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