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We were awake just after 07:00 and took our time getting up a ready. While we were getting ourselves organized, there were two announcements within a few minutes of each other for somebody from deck 8 to contact guest services. This was kind of strange. This is pretty common on port days when people are late returning from…

  I had expected that we would be awake at the crack of dawn, but we woke up shortly after 7:00. We got up and ready and then headed up to the Windjammer for breakfast. Graham just had some fruit, and I had bagel with cream cheese and roast turkey. This was delicious. After breakfast, we…

This was our last port day and therefore a bit bittersweet. Even though we still had half the cruise ahead of us, I knew that after this day, the next time I would see the ship from the outside, I would not get on again. Still, this was the port that along with Barcelona I…

After four port days in a row, we had a sea day prior to our final port day the following day. We had figured we would have a lazy day in our future, but this was not quite how it worked out. It was hugely enjoyable though.  We woke up at about 7:30. We got…

This was the last of our Spanish port and the fourth port day in a row. I was a bit torn about this and was in two minds if I should even get off the ship that day. When we originally booked this cruise, Malaga was the port I was looking forward the most as…

After a lazy day the previous day, we had an excursion booked this day. Our port of call that day was Cartagena. We were up just after 7 and got ready. As our tour that day included food, we did not want a proper breakfast. We went to Cafe Promenade for a coffee and a…

This was the day we were supposed to be in Valencia. However, because they suffered devastating flash floods in the surrounding area the week before the cruise, Royal Caribbean made the sensible decision to cancel the port stop in Valencia and replace it with Palma de Mallorca. We had been to Palma de Mallorca on…

We were up again around 7:00 and headed up to the Windjammer for some breakfast. The weather looked promising, and this meant that we would head to one of my ultimate happy places, the monastery of Montserrat. First, we needed some food though. Graham started with oatmeal with dried fruit and sugar. He then had some fruit…

Even though there was no element of jetlag this time, we were wide awake just before 7. We got up and ready and then headed upstairs for the Windjammer for some breakfast. It was surprisingly busy that early in the morning. We did however have no problem finding a seat. Graham had fruit followed by…

Day 2 I had a bit of a restless night, which was not helped either by the fact that we had somewhat noisy neighbours. Thankfully, Graham slept through it all. Shortly before 5:00 I got up to check if our ship had arrived. Unfortunately, there is no webcam, but the marine tracker showed that she was docked…