Game of Thrones

 SWMBO and I are in the Adriatic on a cruise around Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. Many of the towns and cities were used in the filming of titled TV series but as we have never watched it, it all passed us by!!

The first and biggest city was Dubrovnic but sadly due to flight and luggage delays we arrived too late to look round. We next went to Rijeka, a port town which was fun. It had underground tunnels which were built as defences during the Second World War as Russia looked to liberate Croatia from Italian advances. It did give a feeling of how things must have been in Mariupol during the recent siege in Ukraine.

It did also have a certain resemblance to the cruise ship accommodation which was to be our home for the next few days!

Ravenna the port city for Venica had limited appeal and we were there only because we could not face the 3 hour trip to .Venice. Koper in Slovenia and Ancona in Italy were a couple of church fest locations both being very Roman in their influencing architecture.

 We are now on our way to Split where I will update the tour details and add some more pictures. Oh did I fail to mention the ship has a golf simulator? I was pushed out of first place in the nearest the pin competition by a flukey thined 7 iron!!

 

 

 

Spice of Life

After the sadness of the early part of the year, we are starting to get back to normal, and what better way than to revisit the Carribean. We have booked a few days cruise followed by a week in Barbados.
There is no golf involved this time round which is no bad thing as my swing is awful at the moment. so its a good time to clense body and soul. The Sir Gary Sobers is on next week but they have dropped Apes Hill so the festival is not as appealing as it has been.
So we flew out yesterday with Tui. There were some last minute seat problems so we got upgraded to Premium. There were huge benefits we did not appreciate. Fast track check-in and priority security clearance gave us ample opportunity to visit the free airport lounge. When we landed we were first off the plane, taken straight to a coach and bused directly to the cruise ship. No queuing here either so we were on board less than an hour after landing. Looks like Premium might be the way to go!

We are now on Grand Anse beach courtesy of the reggae bus, the chaos of first morning breakfast forgotten, and the dress to impress night is in front  of us.

With that thought in mind I am off for a dip.