Barcelona to the Costa Brava
Our HAL cruise on the Rotterdam finished in Barcelona, arriving in the afternoon, but allowing us one more night aboard the ship before an early morning departure. This gave us one last opportunity to...
Author: Liz
Monaco, Nice and Eze
It was something I had really been looking forward to – sailing into Monaco’s impressive harbour, Port Hercule – and it didn’t disappoint. An amphitheatre of hills and high rise apartments looked down on...
Lucca and Viareggio
When cruise ships call in to Livorno, on Italy’s Tuscan coast, cruisers usually opt for the tours in to Florence, a most wonderful drawcard of a city. This is often combined with a detour...
Ajaccio – Corsica
Ajaccio is the capital of Corsica, on the west coast of this French island, which is only a few kilometres north of Sardinia in the Western Mediterranean. It is a very popular cruise port. When...
Córdoba and La Mezquita
Ask anyone who has been to Córdoba what is the most important attraction and they will tell you – La Mezquita! This was one of the most impressive mosques in Spain during the occupation...
Gibraltar – British Overseas Territory
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian peninsula. Though often incorrectly referred to as an island, its land area of 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi) is linked via a flat...
Huelva, Spain
While other cruisers climbed aboard buses bound for Seville, we took the shuttle bus into Huelva city centre, where we had already arranged the hire of a car, so we could have a day...
Santiago de Compostela
The first port on our Iberian cruise was actually A Coruña, a city on the north-west Atlantic coast of Galicia, Spain. And we did manage to find time to tour it briefly in the...
