In a few hours our doorbell will chime in all the neighborhood ghosts - actually our house looks pretty much like a haunted house with boxes at the doors and clothing hung up ready to move into the trailer.
Tomorrow morning Paul will drive out to the lake to hitch up the trailer and bring it home. We will spend the afternoon emptying the house and loading the trailer for our journey. Wednesday morning our plan is to hit the road with Tunica, Mississippi being our mid trip resting spot.
See you on the road - wherever we get wi-fi...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Cruising with Carnival Magic
After our trip to the “Soo” we returned to our seasonal campsite at McGowan Lake. Labour Day weekend featured the annual “trick or treat” costumed children going from site to site. This weekend was followed by our “Beers of the World” pot luck weekend. By mid-September we winterized our trailer – as we were preparing to leave on our next adventure.
On September 22nd we boarded an Air France plane for Barcelona Spain – the gateway to our 12 day Mediterranean cruise aboard the Carnival Magic – their biggest and newest ship! We joined ten of our friends on this adventure.
Our first port (Sept 26th) was Marseilles, France – where we toured the old city and enjoyed lunch overlooking the port.
Next stop (Sept 27th) was Savona, Italy –where we took a ship excursion into the city of Genoa.
Rome was the next port on Sept 28th. We even got within 15 feet of the pope during his weekly tour of the square. What a treat.
Naples, Italy was our stop on Sept 29th. Here we had hired a private tour driver and got an inspiring view of the Amalfi coast. This is definitely 6-49 country. The scenery was incredible. Our last stop of the day was in Pompeii. What a feeling to be walking in the excavated city.
Finally we got a day at sea – no tours! This was our first formal dinner evening and we all got dressed to the nines.
Dubrovnik, Croatia was our stop on Oct 1st. What a fascinating walled city. A real step back in time.
After this we went back to Italy and stopped two days in Venice. A beautiful city but totally overrun by tourists. Not the city I remembered from 30 years ago.
October 5th saw us stopping in Sicily. We took another ship excursion “Following in the Godfather’s footsteps”. This brought us to two villages where scenes from the Godfather were filmed back in the 1970’s. Not much has changed since then.
After another day at sea, we returned to Barcelona on Oct 7th and began our journey back to Ottawa. This cruise was a memorable trip!
On September 22nd we boarded an Air France plane for Barcelona Spain – the gateway to our 12 day Mediterranean cruise aboard the Carnival Magic – their biggest and newest ship! We joined ten of our friends on this adventure.
Our first port (Sept 26th) was Marseilles, France – where we toured the old city and enjoyed lunch overlooking the port.
Next stop (Sept 27th) was Savona, Italy –where we took a ship excursion into the city of Genoa.
Rome was the next port on Sept 28th. We even got within 15 feet of the pope during his weekly tour of the square. What a treat.
Naples, Italy was our stop on Sept 29th. Here we had hired a private tour driver and got an inspiring view of the Amalfi coast. This is definitely 6-49 country. The scenery was incredible. Our last stop of the day was in Pompeii. What a feeling to be walking in the excavated city.
Finally we got a day at sea – no tours! This was our first formal dinner evening and we all got dressed to the nines.
Dubrovnik, Croatia was our stop on Oct 1st. What a fascinating walled city. A real step back in time.
After this we went back to Italy and stopped two days in Venice. A beautiful city but totally overrun by tourists. Not the city I remembered from 30 years ago.
October 5th saw us stopping in Sicily. We took another ship excursion “Following in the Godfather’s footsteps”. This brought us to two villages where scenes from the Godfather were filmed back in the 1970’s. Not much has changed since then.
After another day at sea, we returned to Barcelona on Oct 7th and began our journey back to Ottawa. This cruise was a memorable trip!
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