Category Archives: Excursions

Pointe A Pitre, Guadeloupe

Posted on December 23, 2024 by patmathews

December 22, 2024 Last night, it was dark when we left St. Barts and it was fun to see all the yachts in the harbor beautifully lit up. Of course, the Bezos yacht was there. Is it following us? It … Continue reading →

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Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Posted on December 19, 2024 by patmathews

December 19, 2024 The sail away from Miami was beautiful. We had a casual dinner on the terrace at sailaway. After leaving from Miami on Tuesday, we had a sea day yesterday and enjoyed it! The weather was just a … Continue reading →

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Plymouth, UK

Posted on May 4, 2024 by patmathews

May 2, 2024 Sad to say this is our last port on our trip before we disembark in Southampton, UK. We haven’t been to Plymouth before and it is a tender port. Our trip is an afternoon one, so we … Continue reading →

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Cobh, Ireland

Posted on May 1, 2024 by patmathews

May 1, 2024 Last night we had the Oceania Club party for this segment of our cruise, the last for us, of course. And the beautiful sky! Our port today is Cobh, Ireland which is the port for cruise ships … Continue reading →

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Belfast, Ireland

Posted on April 28, 2024 by patmathews

April 28, 2014 This is our third visit to Belfast. One of the benefits of writing a blog is that I can look up what we did last time! This time we booked a tour outside of the city to … Continue reading →

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Glasgow (Greenock), UK

Posted on April 27, 2024 by patmathews

April 27, 2024 Well, there will be no pictures of our fun cocktail party with the trivia team. We had many goodies to eat and lots of wine and champagne but I was having such a good time, I completely … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh, Scotland

Posted on April 25, 2024 by patmathews

April 24, 2024 As we made our way into the Firth of Forth, the river that takes us into Edinburgh, we saw, as we h ave in many places on this trip, long rows of wind turbines. It seems that … Continue reading →

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St. Malo, France

Posted on April 23, 2024 by patmathews

April 21, 2024 I was looking forward to St. Malo because I remembered it so well from the trip our son Mark and I took with good friend Jim and his daughter Jamie. We also went to Mont St. Michel … Continue reading →

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Lisbon, Portugal

Posted on April 20, 2024 by patmathews

April 18, 2024 Happy birthday, Adam! Our son does the technical work on this blog and today is his birthday. When I re-read the description of our tour for today, I realized that we would be in Setubal (we have … Continue reading →

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Portimao, Portugal

Posted on April 20, 2024 by patmathews

April 17, 2024 Portimao is a port we have never visited on our trips to Portugal. We selected the Benagil Cathedral Sea Cave tour and just walked to the tour boat from our ship. Ana was our guide and she … Continue reading →

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