Mediterranean Cruise, MSC Lirica.
These articles are all about the Mediterranean Cruise that I took in February 2023. I went to Alicante in Spain where I got my cruise ship the MSC Lirica & cruise to, Genoa in Italy, Marseille in France, Barcelona in Spain, Tangier in Morocco, Casablanca in Morocco, Ceuta which is a Spanish territory bordering Morocco, then Malaga in Spain before sailing back to Alicante.
Because of the large cost of getting a taxi to Alicante to take my cruise, I booked a hotel room for the night before I leave on my cruise & went to Alicante a day early on a coach. I saved myself €160 by doing this which will be money spent doing something else on my cruise.
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Today is the day that I board my ship, the MSC Lirica. I had set my alarm for 10 am in case I slept late. There was no chance of that in such an uncomfortable bed & I was up early. I tried to have a shower but the shower unit was so small I could not get in it. I doubt anyone half my size would have found it easy. I got dressed, did crossword puzzles for a while & then checked out.
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I woke up at around 7:00 am but stay in bed until around 8 am before getting up & taking a shower. After my shower, I dressed & went to one of the buffets for breakfast.
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This morning I woke before my Alarm at around 7:30 am. I had a shower & got ready for my trip ashore in Genoa where we had docked in port.
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After falling asleep at around 3 am, I was woken again around 5 am. I waited till 7:30 am before going for breakfast at a restaurant with waiter service. I ordered waffles with fruit & syrup, but they were tiny & cold & didn't improve my mood. The cooked breakfast however was very nice, bacon, sausage links, mushrooms, grilled tomato, hash brown & beans. It was washed down with two cups of coffee & followed up by some sliced cantaloupe, melon, orange & pineapple.
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The trip that I had booked to visit Montserrat today had been cancelled. I was offered different trips to take a walking tour around Barcelona but after seeing a lot of it on a previous trip & having a lot of bad luck on previous visits I decided to stay on board.
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I went for breakfast this morning before settling down in the Lord Nelson bar. The bar was shut but they had comfortable chairs & it was a quiet place to sit & type up some notes about my trip so far.
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Today was the day I made my first visit to Tangier, Morocco & North Africa. Surprisingly after not going to bed until around 5 am after taking photos of the Strait of Gibraltar as we sailed past earlier in the morning, I was up at 7:30 am. I had a quick shower, dressed & went for breakfast before going to the theatre on board the ship where those of us going ashore were given instructions on joining our various tours.
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Visiting Casablanca was on my bucket list & was the reason I took this cruise, today I arrived at Casablanca & did a coach & walking tour around the city.
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I arrived in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish City in North Africa knowing very little about it, I had not even heard of it until I was booked on my cruise.
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Today we arrived in Malaga in Spain. It was a place I had never been to & was not what I expected at all.
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Today we arrived back at Alicante. After leaving the ship I spent the day in Alicante with Helen before I caught my bus back to Los Alcazares & Helen got her flight home.
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