Hot Glass and Wine Tasting Highlight Day 3 of our Atlantic Crossing

The beauty of a sea day on Celebrity is that the passengers can pick and choose to do as little or as much as they want aboard the ship. The activities staff offered a wide variety of options all day long, but the highlights of the day for us were attending another presentation of [...]

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Cabin Tour and Celebrity Singer Highlight an Interesting Day at Sea

We had another day at seat with an interesting mix of waves, weather, and fun. Last year when we crossed the Atlantic we could not have had more perfect weather with warm sunny days and lake like conditions. However, yesterday started calm with a little bit of sun, but then [...]

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A Relaxing Day at Sea helps us all Recharge Our Batteries

Yesterday was the first sea day of our crossing and offered us a change to recharge our batteries after such a busy previous week. While the kids enjoyed some time in the youth program, I had a chance find a quiet area on the ship and practice my dance recital routines with my portable [...]

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A Day in Madeira and Then Out to Sea for Our Atlantic Crossing

Our day began with room service breakfast, a special order of eggs Benedict, sausage and bacon. Then we enjoyed the views as our ship pulled into port at Funchal Madeira. Docking was a bit of confusion with the construction going on in the Funchal port. They are building a huge terminal [...]

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A Fabulous Day at Sea

This morning started with my daughter and I getting up at 6:00 am, when the ship was passing by the Rock of Gibraltar. We had hoped that it would daylight at that time of day, but it was still dark so the view was not any different than what we saw last year when [...]

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Mr Papa Gives His Perspective on Cartagena

Yesterday, we made a port of call in Cartagena, Spain. It’s a relatively small coastal Spanish town that dates back to before the Romans and Carthaginians. We were not really sure what there was to do in town, but we had decided to just walk around town and take it in. The weather on this [...]

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A Relaxing Day in Barcelona

Today our ship docked in beautiful Barcelona Spain. Since we had spent 4 days there last year before our cruise on the Summit, we decided that in the cold overcast weather it would be much more relaxing to stay on the ship. Barcelona is a fascinating city with its history dating back to [...]

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A Picture Perfect Day on Celebrity Solstice In Villefrance

Today was our second port day and with so many not so good things resulting from Yesterday’s bad weather it was refreshing to have the weather cooperating and giving us a picture perfect day in port. Villefrance is nestled in a deep water cove between Nice and Monaco. In some ways it [...]

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Livorno and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Not Exactly!

I know I’ve posted this many times here at cruise Talk: If you really want to see a city, site or attraction, a cruise ship is not the best way of insuring that you will make it there. There are just too many variables related to cruise travel that can disrupt the scheduled [...]

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Trans-Atlantic Cruise on Celebrity Solstice

Today we woke up with much excitement as it was our day to board the Celebrity Solstice. Our driver arrive a few minutes early but we were pretty much ready to go. We brought down our suitcases and loaded them up in his van. Then we picked up another couple, [...]

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