Noon Report: Location: N 43° 44.17′, E 007° 25.86′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 12º C; 54º F Wind: ESE 5 knots; 6 mph We arrived in Monaco shortly before 10:00 AM – so the decks were full of people watching us back in to the harbor as we came ever closer […]
Noon Report: Location: N 42° 05.95′, E 011° 46.44′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 13º C; 55º F Wind: SSW 7 knots; 8 mph Early start with a long day ahead of us. As we were grabbing a quick breakfast the sun disappeared. We looked up to see something the size of
Noon Report: Location: N 40° 50.22′, E 014° 15.63′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 15º C; 59º F Wind: N 10 knots; 11.5 mph After breakfast I got ready to head out on the morning excursion while Cheryl got ready to head back to bed. She’s caught my cold and is trying
Noon Report: Location: N 38° 11.76′, E 015° 33.49′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 15º C; 59º F Wind: W 15 knots; 17 mph Woke up this morning docked in Messina on the island of Sicily. Our excursion call was 8:45 so we slept a bit later and had a leisurely breakfast
Noon Report: Location: N 36° 52.05′, E 019° 43.74′ Speed: 12.8 knots Course: 286º Weather: Clear Temperature: 15º C; 59º F Wind: SW 6 knots; 7 mph Sea: 3′ swell Not your typical sea day. First, we’re in between colds. I’m better (but not quite 100%) and Cheryl’s getting it. Second, the big all-consuming event
Noon Report: Location: N 37° 56.40′, E 023° 38.12′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 16º C; 61º F Wind: NW 4 knots; 5 mph Back in January 2020 we spent several days in Athens while on a tour of Greece, so when we reviewed the excursion options (both ship sponsored and private)
Noon Report: Location: N 39° 53.35′, E 025° 48.02′ Speed: 10.9 knots Course: 208º Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 10º C; 50º F Wind: WNW 3 knots; 4 mph Sea: Calm I managed to rouse myself from sleep long enough to see Cheryl leaving to exercise, then dozed off again – waking sometime later to find
Noon Report: Location: N 41° 01.52′, E 028° 58.98′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 11º C; 52º F Wind: SW 9 knots; 10 mph Remember how yesterday we celebrated the sea day morning by not setting the alarm?Well today we had an 8:15 excursion call so we set the alarm for our
Noon Report: Location: N 40° 40.85′, E 027° 30.60′ Speed: 17.8 knots Course: 66º Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 12º C; 54º F Wind: ESE 5 knots; 7 mph Sea: Calm Today was a strange hybrid day – a sea day with an evening excursion. As a nod to my head cold we didn’t set the
Noon Report: Location: N 37° 51.81′, E 027° 15.34′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Partly Cloudy Temperature: 12º C; 54º F Wind: SSW 7 knots; 9 mph We docked this morning at the port of Kusadaski. This is the port for Ephesus nowadays. Ephesus used to be the sea port, but during the first century