Had a lovely comfy bed last night and we were beat by 7.30pm, so crashed at 8pm. Graeme woke feeling refreshed and ready to go, until he found out it was only 10pm haha! He woke me at midnight again, so had an hour or so before dropping off again,
Up at 6am and down to breakfast at 7am as the owner had told us to do before a departure at 8am. No-one in the dining room, lights out???? Had to go back to our room and ring the reception to find the cook was missing?! Turned out she had taken someone to the airport as she is also the taxi driver- weird!
Anyhow, she got back and we had a lovely cooked English breakfast, then she took us to Gatwick. Pretty much all automated check in’s. What a busy airport. Sat there thinking it would have been nice to have Danni here like last time to kill the time with!
On to the british airways flight and only 1 ½ hours and we were in Genoa, Italy. We have found the information desks at the airports are great if you need to find out how to get from A to B and that you don’t always have to pre-book expensive transfers. Had decided to wing it a bit so we caught the ‘volabus’ for €4pp that took us right to the main terminus, not far from the port- much cheaper than €30 for a taxi. Walked 10 mins and we were at the port. The huge ships there looked magnifique!
A bit of back and forth to get checked in but we followed the Italians (they speak So loudly)! Our cabin is great- a balcony double room at the very front of the ship- couldn’t have got better as we have no-one next to us on one side and can see off the bow. What a massive ship- about 3,000 passengers speaking about 5 languages!
Was so funny- we had to go to the emergency drill wearing our titanic orange life jackets- I was going to try to get away with not wearing mine until I HAD to- but NO, they are waiting in the corridors for you haha! Wish I had taken a photo, looked very comical!!
Unfortunately we have to wait till the late sitting for dinner at 9pm as they put us on this one due to lots of people on the early one, despite the early request- eek! We are used to eating at 5-6 pm!! I told the Maitre d’ that I have low blood sugars so we could get on the waiting list for the 6.30pm dinner – will wait and see what happens.
We have walked many sets of stairs tonight exploring, and a day at sea tomorrow which is great so we can get our bearings.
Up at 6am and down to breakfast at 7am as the owner had told us to do before a departure at 8am. No-one in the dining room, lights out???? Had to go back to our room and ring the reception to find the cook was missing?! Turned out she had taken someone to the airport as she is also the taxi driver- weird!
Anyhow, she got back and we had a lovely cooked English breakfast, then she took us to Gatwick. Pretty much all automated check in’s. What a busy airport. Sat there thinking it would have been nice to have Danni here like last time to kill the time with!
On to the british airways flight and only 1 ½ hours and we were in Genoa, Italy. We have found the information desks at the airports are great if you need to find out how to get from A to B and that you don’t always have to pre-book expensive transfers. Had decided to wing it a bit so we caught the ‘volabus’ for €4pp that took us right to the main terminus, not far from the port- much cheaper than €30 for a taxi. Walked 10 mins and we were at the port. The huge ships there looked magnifique!
A bit of back and forth to get checked in but we followed the Italians (they speak So loudly)! Our cabin is great- a balcony double room at the very front of the ship- couldn’t have got better as we have no-one next to us on one side and can see off the bow. What a massive ship- about 3,000 passengers speaking about 5 languages!
Was so funny- we had to go to the emergency drill wearing our titanic orange life jackets- I was going to try to get away with not wearing mine until I HAD to- but NO, they are waiting in the corridors for you haha! Wish I had taken a photo, looked very comical!!
Unfortunately we have to wait till the late sitting for dinner at 9pm as they put us on this one due to lots of people on the early one, despite the early request- eek! We are used to eating at 5-6 pm!! I told the Maitre d’ that I have low blood sugars so we could get on the waiting list for the 6.30pm dinner – will wait and see what happens.
We have walked many sets of stairs tonight exploring, and a day at sea tomorrow which is great so we can get our bearings.
They have wi fi here on the ship which we are using in our room but it is 20 euro's an hour!!
5 comments:
The ship sounds fabulous not quite like your last trip on one if I recall with students vomiting ,noisy etc etc.What are the temperatures as it must be into autumn now?
Sharon
OMG those pools look so so so cool if i were there you would never see me again because i would always be swimming!lol
You should take some photos of your room so we can all see it to.
Love Danni
xoxoxoxoxo
take lots of photos for us. Your cabin looks a million dollars. The airport info desks can certainly save one LOTS of money.
I have Googled all the places you have been to, just to get the locations sorted in my mind. (what mind?)
lol
Ma n Pa
Sharon you are so right- there is no comparison to the ship in Greece! Temps in Spain abut 20-26C and BEAUTIFUL! Yes it is autumn so not too hot.
Danni-
I know everytime O go to the pools I think of you and we said the same thing- would never sdee you out of them!!
M & D- the cabin is great- NO sea sickness what so ever.
Re googling- good idesa then when we get home we can have a BIG photo session to back it allup!! haha stop groaning Mum
Photos? YAWN......just kidding (I think). Am certainly enjoying all the photos you are putting on your bog - er - blog. They are just right for my attention-span! Make sure you have about 8,500 pics for Dad tho', and DEFINITELY ensure you have lots of statistics for him - number of kms from here to there, square area of countries, population base - YAWN again. I'll have the history
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