Sacramento Airport
April 20, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Started off with a major flight delay causing us to scramble and change airlines and flight. It’s all good 😁
Embarkation day!!
April 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Royal Caribbean Odyssey of the seas 14 day transatlantic cruise from Florida to Italy. Beautiful huge ship!!
Cruise day 2: sea day
April 23, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
First Sea day. Relaxing day.
Cruise day 3: sea day
April 24, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌬 68 °F
Cloudy day so indoor activities. We won hats in a game. Silent disco and specialty dinner. Our ship made a detour to the island of Bermuda to drop an injured crewman.
Cruise day 4: sea day
April 24, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
Another relaxing and yet busy day at sea. So many activities and shows to see including a totally 80’s dance party!!
Cruise day 5: sea day
April 25, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Cloudy day but so much to do indoors. Cards, trivia games, bands and lots of food.
Cruise day 6: sea day
April 26, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Another day of fun ship activities. Laser tag and relaxing in the solarium. We saw whales and dolphins, Met friends and had a late night dip in a hot tub.
Cruise day 7: sea day
April 27, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
First day without losing an hour!! Relaxing by pool, hanging out with friends and walking around the deck.
Cruise day 8: Azores port!
April 28, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
So beautiful, lush plants and flowers everywhere. Lots of “happy” cows who all have names. Wonderful cheese. I ended the day with a ride in the North Star!
Cruise day 9: sea day
April 30, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Crazy fun day at sea!! I got the guts to do iFLY🤪 and we had an amazing Italian dinner then I was part of a flash mob followed by the most totally awesome 70’s Inferno Disco 🪩 party in theRead more
Cruise day 10: sea day
April 30, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
After yesterday’s iFly experience and late night 70’s dance party, today was a relax by the pool kick back day. Getting ready to go through the Straits of Gibraltar in the early morning.
Straits of Gibraltar crossing
May 1, 2024, Strait of Gibraltar ⋅ 🌬 61 °F
Yes we stayed up till 3am to watch as our ship waited in the cue for our turn to go through the Straits of Gibraltar, a 14 mile wide gap between Spain and Morocco. We were told 300+ ships pass throughRead more
Cruise day 11: Malaga, Spain
May 1, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F
A bit tired from staying up late to watch as we went through the Straits of Gibraltar, but we did end up getting off the ship at 12:30pm. Had some great pastries, coffee, tapas and Sangria. Walked upRead more
Cruise day 12: Cartagena, Spain
May 2, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
Had a great day with friends who live in Spain.
Cruise day 13: sea day
May 3, 2024, Western Mediterranean ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
Relaxing day of celebration on the ship. Grand lunch seafood buffet with chocolate fountain then a Royal lobster dinner followed by the awesome signature Showgirl: Past, Present, Future show.
Cruise day 14: La Spezia/Pisa
May 4, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
Final cruise day and we’re spending it on the 1 hr train ride to explore Pisa.
Pisa, Italy
May 4, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F
Yea…the tower is still leaning and I ate my first Italian Margarita pizza !!
Civitavacchia Port, Italy
May 4, 2024, Ligurian Sea ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F
One final night with an amazing sunset off our balcony!! Good bye Odyssey of the Seas…Hello Rome. After a great relaxing morning our 1 mile shuttle bus from the ship to the port terminal broke downRead more
Rome, Italy
May 5, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
Full day in Rome, one more tomorrow
Rome, Italy day 2
May 6, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
Crazy busy walking day! Great weather and lots of sightseeing.
Como, Italy (Lake Como)
May 7, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
Traveled 150 mph on a high speed train from Rome to Milan then to the town of Como, which is on lake Como. This is where the rich and famous have summer villas 😎. Beautiful lake. We took theRead more
Como, Italy
May 7, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
A few pictures at dusk in Como
Cadenazzo, Switzerland
May 8, 2024 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
On our way over the Switzerland 🇨🇭 alps from Italy 🇮🇹 to France 🇫🇷. Short layover in Cadenazzo. We saw a quick glimpse of the Matterhorn!!!
Swiss Alps
May 8, 2024 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
What a beautiful train ride over the Swiss alps. Definitely want to come back to Switzerland 🇨🇭
Colmar, France
May 8, 2024 in France ⋅ 🌙 54 °F
After arriving, settling into our hotel and doing some laundry we had a wonderful dinner and stroll around the cute town of Colmar. Gonna explore more tomorrow. FYI, in Europe the ground floor is 0.
TravelerBad start to your trip, but you have awesome-ness ahead of you 😁👍
Well, sounds like you got caught up in that internet outage in Sacramento... Some bozo cut the lines I heard. But glad you persevered. [Timothy Fraher]
TravelerAmanda told me about the bad start and I am so thankful that you guys are on your way and having fun