Category Archives: Excursions

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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Santiago de Compostela (Vigo), Spain

Posted on April 20, 2024 by patmathews

April 19, 2024 This post will probably be out of order since the previous two are encountering some type of glitch in photo uploading. I am trying to fix it without totally rewriting the whole thing but so far no … Continue reading →

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Casablanca, Morocco

Posted on April 14, 2024 by patmathews

April 13, 2024 Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and industrial center. When we arrived at the port, we saw that the Regent ship that has been either leading or following us had already arrived. It is another beautiful day, predicted … Continue reading →

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Agadir, Morocco

Posted on April 12, 2024 by patmathews

April 12, 2024 This is our first time in Morocco and is one of the main reasons we decided on this itinerary. Although we have been in several ports in the area, Morocco was never one of them. When we … Continue reading →

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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Posted on April 9, 2024 by patmathews

April 9, 2024 My previous post just loaded after I tried for 2 days. It has been hard to get the pictures downloaded during our 2 days at sea. Finally it worked! So let’s hope this one works too. Las … Continue reading →

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