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...
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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...
Iberian Splendour Cruise 2015
Finding ourselves with an excuse to visit Barcelona and wanting to cram in as much as possible on our holiday, we decided to take advantage of a Holland America Line cruise out of Southampton that finished...
Pompeii and Pizza
When you go to Naples there are two must do’s – Pompeii and Pizza. Naples is Italy’s third largest city after Rome and Milan, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the...
Catania and Taormina
Another port, another tour. This time we used the company ‘Sicily with Mario’. He had good reviews on TripAdvisor and they were well deserved. Our driver was very accommodating, to the point that he...
