Messina - Sicily
8月26日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Docked beside the city of Messina this morning which was virtually entirely rebuilt after their 1908 earthquake. It's still a beautiful city with interesting history.
Excursion started with a busもっと詳しく
Naples - Napoli
8月27日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Again woke up docked on old terminal in Naples. Predicted temperature today of 30 degrees and it was all that and more.
Walking tour of the city which was great - one busy, noisy crazy city. Trafficもっと詳しく
Rome - Roma
8月28日, イタリア ⋅ 🌬 27 °C
Awoke in Civitavecchia, which is 90 minutes from the centre of Rome. After breakfast 600 odd passengers disembarked for the last time, including friends we had made. We boarded our bus headed to Romeもっと詳しく
Livorno - Pisa
8月29日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Livorno is about 45 minutes from Pisa by bus. We headed off after breakfast and joined the ever present crowd at the famous leaning tower.
Beautiful location and great history of the 3 buildings.もっと詳しく
Florence - Firenze
8月30日, イタリア ⋅ 🌩️ 21 °C
Left the ship early for the bus ride to Florence. After the bus ride and walk into the town square, the arrival was worth all the effort. What a gob smacking beautiful place! Despite a couple of shortもっと詳しく
Monaco Monte Carlo
8月31日, モナコ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
OMG! Awoke to the most stunning vista I have ever seen. What a place.
Started with a walking tour of the old town including yes another Chapel and the Princes Palace. Lovely alleys and gardens.
Hadもっと詳しく
Marseille
9月1日, フランス ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Wet - the word of the day. Fortunately our excursion was mostly conducted in a bus so we were not too troubled.
Our French guide spoke at a million miles an hour which meant I missed alot of what wasもっと詳しく
Sete and Montpellier
9月2日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Changed our excursion for today and it was worth it. Bused to Montpellier and had a guided wander. Beautiful city and buildings, but we were obviously too early for the locals as they were only justもっと詳しく
Barcelona
9月3日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Left the ship early for a bus tour and then walking tour of Barcelona. Big busy city but beautiful. Highlight has to be the Sagrada Familia. What a spectacle! Outside was amazing which convinced us weもっと詳しく
Barcelona day 2
9月4日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
With a heavy heart we disembarked from the Viking Sea for the last time this morning. Many farewells from the crew which made it even harder.
Checked into our lovely hotel for the night. Situated inもっと詳しく
Paris.
9月5日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Sitting in our hotel room in Paris eating a chocolate croissant after a walk beside the Seine River - how French can I be?
Most of the day travelling on the bullet train from Barcelona to Paris.もっと詳しく
Paris
9月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
We both awoke quite late for us as it has caught up with us after so many early mornings either catching trains or excursions.
Breakfast at the hotel and headed on a hop on hop off tour of Parisもっと詳しく
Versaillies
9月7日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Headed back to Eiffil Tower first thing for a wander as didn't stop yesterday. Walked underneath but decided against going up. It looked packed and quite frankly we were not fussed. Lovely grounds andもっと詳しく
Paris
9月8日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Quiet day for me as couldn't face yet another museum and people. Headed to a local laundrette instead to catch up on the washing. The hotel laundry service was ab horrendous charge so dud itもっと詳しく
Lille
9月9日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Not much to report today. Travelled to Lille on bullet train. Train not too packed which was good as well over pushy people. Train guard also helped with Deb's by now very heavy suitcase, which was aもっと詳しく
Lille
9月10日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Another quiet day as I worked for most of the day catching up. Feel better being on the front foot.
Deb went for a walk before lunch and we both walked to the old city mid afternoon. Lovely town.もっと詳しく
Day 1 Battlefield Tour - Lille to Amien
9月11日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
A day full of visiting various sites related to ANZAC and the Battle of the Somme July and August 1916.
Too many sites to mention and cemeteries with staggering numbers of names of ANZAC soldiersもっと詳しく
Naours
9月12日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Started after breakfast with a visit to the underground city of Naours. Built long ago their war history is as a tourist attraction for ANZAC soldiers on R & R. Names inscribed on the walls and thenもっと詳しく
Ypres
9月13日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Travelling to Ypres today with stops on the way. Adelaide cemetery, Australian Memorial, the Sir John Monash Centre and then the Menin Gate.
More lessons and information about the great war.
Realもっと詳しく
Ypres
9月14日, ベルギー ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Big day visiting lots of sites. First stop Essex farm where John McCrae wrote In Flanders Field. Then a brief stop at a German cemetery with over 44,000 buried soldiers. Stark and cold compared toもっと詳しく
Lille
9月15日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Wet and wild day weather wise. Some got off to view Hill 60 and the craters. I stayed on the bus as it was an Australian battle.
Then we stopped in Messines briefly, where I bumped into a young guyもっと詳しく
Paris
9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Quiet day as I was under the weather with a bit of a head cold plus it was simply travel day from Lille to Paris for our flight to Singapore in the morning.
Checked into our second to last hotel - aもっと詳しく
Singapore
9月18日, シンガポール ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Kind of lost a day travelling to Singapore. Left Paris around 1100 on Wednesday arrived in Singapore around 0600 on Thursday after 12 hour flight. France turned nasty just after we left with riots soもっと詳しく
Singapore - last night
9月19日, シンガポール ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
After a late breakfast we headed to both Chinatown and Little India. OMG it was hot! We both ended up balls of sweat.
Fascinating places full of colour and smells. Took me back to my earlier yearsもっと詳しく






























































































































