Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Transatlantic Cruise This was our second visit to Cartagena Spain, having first visited in 2009, also on a Transatlantic cruise. We explored the main shopping area on the first trip, but this time we skipped the shopping (mostly) and visited a few more of the historic sites. I also made my way…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Transatlantic Cruise Since we had never been to Palma de Majorca, we did take a shuttle into town and explore the main shopping street and the plaza outside the cathedral, as well as some of the historical buildings. There were several cruise ships in port this day, including the large Wonder of…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Transatlantic Cruise I should preface this with the statement that this cruise was really just a relaxing way for us to get home from our very intense river cruise, so we had no specific plans to get off at any ports, especially if we had visited the area before. So Toulon was…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2022 Transatlantic Cruise Logistics in and out of Rome can be complicated. We flew from Bucharest through Munich and then on to Rome the night before the cruise. Our only worry was getting out of Munich as the Air Traffic Controllers were on a slow down which mean that our flight had been…
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During our journey for the recent river cruise our trans-Atlantic flights took us as far as Austria, where we spent one night at an airport hotel and then flew Austrian Airlines from Vienna to Zagreb. That was about a 1 hour flight, and for a little over $100 total we could upgrade to business class….
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