Schedule of Our Cruise

It occured to me that here we are talking about a cruise and people who look at this do not know the details of what we are on about.
We have been cruising with the Princess Line for a few years. We started in the Mediterranean going from Venice to Athens. Since then we have been through the Panama Canal, crossed to england from New York; have done 2 crossings from rome to the U.S.A. and visited Russia and the Baltic as well a last fall's autumn colour trip from quebec City to fort Lauderdale. we have been trying to cruise twice a year!
Here are the details of Cruise #8 - Fort Lauderdale to Barcelona - 16 days on the emerald Princess.
We leave Fort Lauderdale on Monday April 14
Apr 15-20 At Sea
Apr 21 Maderia Portugal (Canary Islands)
Aor 22 At Sea
Apr 23 Seville (Cadiz) Spain
Apr 24 Gigraltar
Apr 25 At Sea
Apr 26 Cagliari, Sardinia
Apr 27 Rome
Apr 28 Livorno (Tuscany)
Apr 29 Marseille, France
Apr 30 Barcelona - Off ship
We have been to a few of these ports in the past but there is always lots to see and do.
Once off the ship in Barcelona, Chris and Brig will be waiting for us and we will spend the next 3 days touring Barcelona with them.
May 3 We fly back home while Chris and Brig continue touring Spain.

We managed to do a few things in preparation for the trip. This is still a work in progress and with my well known dial up, it is a bit "slow" to say the least. We will be into full prep in a few days as we are getting closer to the departure date on Sunday. We will be staying overnight at Detroit Airport because of the early flight on Monday.
We have been researching the stops that we will be making. we have been to some of the ports before so we have a good idea of what is located in each. We did decide to take a "Tour" in Rome. We have already booked the "Rome on your own" trip. To get to the train station, then take the train to Rome and then end up far from St Peter's is a bit much. The bus will drop us right at the Vatican and we can then walk from there.
The other place we are considering a "Tour" is in Liverno. I wanted to go see a few small towns in the Tuscon Hills but Judy wants to do the"boat tour" to the hard to get at cliff communities. The appeal is the boat as well as the Lunch on your Own which means good pasta and a bottle of Chianti! A bit of a split decision there.
For those who think that we don't eat enough on these cruises, (BUCK), you should know that our balcony room is near the aft stairway and 2 decks directly below the buffet! So needless to say we will be hitting that area frequently for those mid afternoon snacks and of course the ice cream. Pizza or sausage and fries are on my list of things to eat.

Start of Cruise 8

This is the start of our upcoming trip to the Mediterranean. We leave next week from Detroit. We will be sailing from Fort Lauderdale, ending the trip in Barcelona 16 days later. As we prepare for the trip and move to the the ship we hope to post to the blog every day.