Just got back from our first ever cruise

[AlanW]

The highlight of being at sea, was watching a huge water spout develop behind us

 

[AlanW]

There seems to me a myth that you go on a cruise and sit in a sun lounger all day. On the three I have been on I’ve never sat in one.

There are many cruises where you arrive in a port early in the morning and can go ashore after breakfast for a choice of organised trips or do your own thing. The ship then leaves port later afternoon / early evening. At that time you will be having dinner and then maybe watch a show before going to bed. The next morning you wake up somewhere difference. Rinse and repeat.

Not all cruises have full days at sea and that is something I wouldn’t want to repeat.

This was our time table:

Day		Port	Arrival Time	Departure Time
1	Tue	Palma, Majorca		22:00
2	Wed	At Sea
3	Thu	Olbia, Sardinia	08:00	15:00
4	Fri	Naples (for Pompeii & Capri), Italy	08:00	18:00
5	Sat	Civitavecchia (for Rome), Italy	07:00	19:00
6	Sun	Ajaccio, Corsica	09:00	15:00
7	Mon	Palamos, Spain	09:00	17:00
8	Tue	Palma, Majorca	06:00

 

[AlanW]

And my favourite photo of the 313 that I took, this one!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I said we have only done one cruise

which is not totally true - we have done 2 others
but in a small boat - 3 crew and 8 guests crusing around Mull and a few nearby places

That was wonderful - lots of "nature" to look at at nice people
some days we stayed on board as we didn;t tie up at all - and just anchored ina bay overnight and set off again after breakfast

Totally different and we will do that again!

 

[BrumJim]

Regardless of the pressure at work, it involves sitting down all day. Hence never really enjoyed sitting on a beach to relax, and would rather go on a monster bike ride. It is exercising the bits that don't normally get worked and want to, and allows the bits that have been stretched to relax.

Usually we turn up on holiday, I'm stressed and can't work out what food to buy, what to do and when. Wife forces me to take my son out on a long bike ride so that I am bearable.