Big worldwide trip "bon voyage!)

[BruceS]

In a day or two Brad & Maree are jetting off for a holiday.
I'll let him/them give details if he wants to but may I be one of the first to wish them both a very safe and enjoyable trip.
I heard it may be for a couple of months?
Enjoy your trip folks & please stay safe!! Can't wait to hear about your experiences!!!

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[T1 Terry]

Wishing you both a great trip from us two too. The itinerary looks non stop and all by tourist ship, looking forward to the photos and hearing your stories about the places you have been.

[Swisslulu]

Have a great trip you two. Say Hi to Europe from us!!

[supersparky]

We are looking forward to the photos Brad. We all hope that you and Maree have a great time.

[Mrmac1]

Hope you have a great time also, enjoy Brad & Maree.

Darryl & Annette

[generdawg]

Wow! I didn't even know this was here. Thanks everybody for the cheer.
I have a feeling I'll need it because I'm so out of shape I get tired just looking at the itinerary!
For those interested, here is our itinerary so you can see what I mean:

We fly out on the 22nd for a few days seeing Ireland and London, then pick up the ship on the 29th for the European leg of the Holy Land tour. Actually four tours stitched together and Maree got a good rate on the Holland-America line (ms Rotterdam). In fact, I suspect that the ancillaries will end up costing more than the actual boat ride.

Day Date Port Arrive Depart
0 29 Sep 2013 Harwich (London), UK 02:00 PM
1 30 Sep 2013 At Sea
2 01 Oct 2013 A Coruna, Spain 10:00 AM 06:00 PM
3 02 Oct 2013 Leixoes (Porto), Portugal 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
4 03 Oct 2013 Lisbon, Portugal ON 07:00 AM
5 04 Oct 2013 Lisbon, Portugal 02:00 PM
6 05 Oct 2013 Cadiz (Seville), Spain 08:00 AM 11:00 PM
7 06 Oct 2013 Gibraltar, British Territory 08:00 AM 11:00 PM
8 07 Oct 2013 Malaga, Spain 08:00 AM 06:00 PM
9 08 Oct 2013 At Sea
10 09 Oct 2013 Barcelona, Spain ON 07:00 AM
11 10 Oct 2013 Barcelona, Spain 05:00 PM
12 11 Oct 2013 Marseille (Provence), France 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
13 12 Oct 2013 Monte Carlo, Monaco 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
14 13 Oct 2013 Ajaccio, Corsica 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
15 14 Oct 2013 Livorno (Florence/Pisa), Italy 07:00 AM 07:00 PM
16 15 Oct 2013 Olbia, Sardinia, Italy 09:00 AM 06:00 PM
17 16 Oct 2013 At Sea
18 17 Oct 2013 Valletta, Malta 10:00 AM 06:00 PM
19 18 Oct 2013 Messina, Italy 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
20 19 Oct 2013 Naples, Italy 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
21 20 Oct 2013 Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy 07:00 AM 04:00 PM
22 21 Oct 2013 At Sea
23 22 Oct 2013 Dubrovnik, Croatia 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
24 23 Oct 2013 Venice, Italy ON 01:00 PM
25 24 Oct 2013 Venice, Italy 05:00 PM
26 25 Oct 2013 Ravenna (San Marino), Italy 07:00 AM 04:00 PM
27 26 Oct 2013 Split, Croatia TR 08:00 AM 04:00 PM
28 27 Oct 2013 Kotor, Montenegro 08:00 AM 04:00 PM
29 28 Oct 2013 Kerkira, Corfu, Greece 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
30 29 Oct 2013 Katakolon, Greece 08:00 AM 04:00 PM
31 30 Oct 2013 Nafplion, Greece TR 08:00 AM 04:00 PM
32 31 Oct 2013 Piraeus (Athens), Greece 07:00 AM 04:00 PM
33 01 Nov 2013 Kusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey 07:00 AM 06:00 PM
34 02 Nov 2013 Iraklion (Crete), Greece 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
35 03 Nov 2013 At Sea
36 04 Nov 2013 Limassol, Cyprus 08:00 AM 06:00 PM
37 05 Nov 2013 Ashdod (Jerusalem), Israel 07:00 AM 11:59 PM
38 06 Nov 2013 Haifa, Israel 07:00 AM 11:59 PM
39 07 Nov 2013 At Sea
40 08 Nov 2013 Antalya, Turkey 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
41 09 Nov 2013 Rhodes, Greece 08:00 AM 02:00 PM
42 10 Nov 2013 Piraeus (Athens), Greece 07:00 AM

Fly back on November 12th after a night layover in Athens.

Hope we (and our feet ) survive.

[Swisslulu]

What a wonderful looking itinerary. You will have a marvellous time. We did a short Mediterranean cruise in 2005 from Venice to Istanbul and return and visited a few of the places on your route. Have fun!!

[Dot]

Back into some "normality" with ph & internet access. Wishing you two all the best for your great trip, Take your pills Brad and no locking yourselves into strange dunnies. Keep in touch.. XXXX

[generdawg]

Back into some "normality" with ph & internet access. Wishing you two all the best for your great trip, Take your pills Brad and no locking yourselves into strange dunnies. Keep in touch.. XXXX

Funny you mention that. Son emailed and put us on to a local mob that have agreement with ISP's in 40 counties. So their sim card goes in my phone at departure (to be used as a modem and gps) and the hook up is automatic if there is sufficient signal strength. This is where I'm skeptical - we'll see.

Always.

There are no such things, although I admit, I haven't travelled China, but I'll bet there aren't too many I can't lock into.

[generdawg]

As requested, I'm going to try to keep a travelogue here following up from the London post on the "Where are you" thread.

We boarded the ship at Harwich England and had a whole day at sea. I was glad for that because it was good for me and my feet. Then we landed at A Coruna Spain (I think the A is long as in Ahh) October first at 09:00. After breaky, we self toured the old section of town. When our feet gave out, we hopped on a city bus for 1.27 Euro each to the other end of town. Saw a first century light house with an inscription in Latin from the time the Romans occupied the town.

Caught the city bus back and went all around the whole town – the long way! I had the bright idea of sight seeing and to be fair, we did see how the other half lives in regular times.

They keep the historic part of town super clean and tidy and the hustle and bustle is reasonably neat too.

We sail at 18:00 just at the time we are supposed to dine with Shaun Connery (real name Shane) and his wife Carol. They are from the Sunshine Coast and he is the spitting image of the Scottish actor. We seem to feed off each other in larikinismness (joking around).

The food is really good at dinner time and so far not bad for buffet.

All this is coming from the international globalgig data roaming card in my phone, which I'm using as a modem. :>)

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