Crossed the Atlantic Again

After 15 days, we arrived in Barcelona. Once again, we’ve proven that a positioning cruise is an interesting way to make the leap from the US into Europe.

Some observations on this Virgin-Atlantic Cruise.

They didn’t do a great job of daily events. Some of our other long ocean crossing cruises have included many many more things to do throughout the day. Virgin seemed to lack that.

They had a lot of food choices a taco bar, a burger, bar, a pizza bar noodles, a Panini machine along with sitdown restaurants, including Steaks, Korean barbecue, Italian and Chinese. And nicely all of these restaurants are included in the cruise fare.

Because we were with a group, we also had a huge $600 bar tab that we didn’t even pay for. We didn’t drink all of the tab proving to ourselves that any cruise drinks package will never make sense for us. I think we’ll just buy it drink by drink as we go.

One of the things that made this Cruise interesting is that we met up with 130 other “ Friends” from our Go With Less Facebook group. Just being with them filled in a lot of our daytime. Particularly for Marc, who made several gaming friends.

We’ve also reinforced that 10 days at sea is about as long as we would like to go without a port stop, something to keep in mind for our next trips

And so now we start our next “ season” in Europe. Beginning with a month-long stay in Barcelona and in mid August and September a month long Canal boat rental in England. There’s space in between for some impromptu tours. At this point we don’t even know what that means or what that looks like but the adventure of filling it in should be fun.

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