{"id":1030,"date":"2013-08-10T18:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1030"},"modified":"2013-08-10T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:34:51","slug":"week-31-cruise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1030","title":{"rendered":"Week 31: cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 31 was spent on a boat cruising the western Mediterranean, starting in Barcelona, and stopping in Naples, Rome, Florence, Marseille and Palma de Mallorca before returning to Barcelona. I have posted galleries of Italy<\/a> and Marseille<\/a> elsewhere; this weekly blog is largely devoted to pictures taken onboard the ship, except for the last few, which are from Palma. <\/p>\n

The ship left Barcelona Sunday afternoon and arrived at the first port, Naples, Tuesday morning. So Sunday evening and Monday were basically dedicated to exploring the ship, eating and taking pictures.<\/p>\n

31_1<\/strong>
\nWe are aboard, waiting to depart. This is the part of Barcelona harbour where cruise ships dock:
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31_2<\/strong>
\nFinally moving, I get a good look at the working part of the harbour:
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31_3<\/strong>
\nWaving goodbye:
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31_4<\/strong>
\nBarcelona disappears into the distance:
\n\"IGP7400\"<\/p>\n

31_5<\/strong>
\nFor a while, we have winged escorts:
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31_6<\/strong>
\nThe first sunset:
\n\"IGP7411\"<\/p>\n

31_7<\/strong>
\nThe chimney at night:
\n\"IGP7419\"<\/p>\n

31_8<\/strong>
\nThe disco on deck 15:
\n\"IGP7420\"<\/p>\n

31_9<\/strong>
\nEarly Monday morning, the deck is being cleaned before the onslaught:
\n\"IGP7424\"<\/p>\n

31_10<\/strong>
\nSunrise in the breakfast restaurant:
\n\"IGP7425\"<\/p>\n

31_11<\/strong>
\nMy daughter checking Facebook at lunchtime, when we were close enough to Corsica and Sardinia to catch a 3G signal from land; otherwise, the ship’s satellite connection was very expensive and pretty useless:
\n\"IGP7430\"<\/p>\n

31_12<\/strong>
\nOne of the many bars on board:
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31_13<\/strong>
\nMonday evening sunset:
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31_14<\/strong>
\nA charming little touch. When making up our room, the staff left these towel sculptures on our bed. This is supposed to be a dog:
\n\"IGP7451\"<\/p>\n

31_15<\/strong>
\nDepending on your mood, this is a swan or a cobra:
\n\"IGP7659\"<\/p>\n

31_16<\/strong>
\nAnd a monkey:
\n\"IGP7780\"<\/p>\n

31_17<\/strong>
\nI found most of the entertainment on ship fake and contrived. But this guy was good:
\n\"IGP7471\"<\/p>\n

31_18<\/strong>
\nHe really got into his playing:
\n\"IGP7472\"<\/p>\n

31_19<\/strong>
\nFinally, Tuesday morning, we sail into Naples harbour:
\n\"IGP7483\"<\/p>\n

31_20<\/strong>
\nA statement I can relate to, near Naples train station:
\n\"IGP7520\"<\/p>\n

31_21<\/strong>
\nThe next day we were in Rome, visiting the Pope and buying ice cream from this lovely lady:
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31_22<\/strong>
\nAnother port, another se\u00c3\u00b1orita, this time it’s Marseille:
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31_23<\/strong>
\nSaturday lunchtime, our ship docked in Palma de Mallorca:
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31_24<\/strong>
\nThe ship docked next to ours had a nicer paint job:
\n\"IGP7814\"<\/p>\n

31_25<\/strong>
\nPalma’s main pedestrian street, rather kitschy right here:
\n\"IGP7785\"<\/p>\n

31_26<\/strong>
\nWindow shopping in Palma:
\n\"IGP7791\"<\/p>\n

31_27<\/strong>
\nSerious shopping in Palma:
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31_28<\/strong>
\nLook over here!
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31_29<\/strong>
\nThe three official flags of the Baleares:
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31_30<\/strong>
\nAnd an unofficial flag:
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31_31<\/strong>
\nOpen every night. This is the main industry in Mallorca:
\n\"IGP7807\"<\/p>\n

31_32<\/strong>
\nBut watch your step on the way home:
\n\"IGP7803\"<\/p>\n

31_33<\/strong>
\nGetting ready for the evening shift:
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31_34<\/strong>
\nIn the nicer parts of Palma, most real estate signs are in German, English, Dutch and Russian. Here is one from a much less posh part of town, near the harbour:
\n\"IGP7811\"<\/p>\n

31_35<\/strong>
\nOne of the many silly signs on the ship. This is the last picture I took during the cruise:
\n\"IGP7813\"<\/p>\n

For some reflections on the whole cruising experience, check out my musings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week 31 was spent on a boat cruising the western Mediterranean, starting in Barcelona, and stopping in Naples, Rome, Florence, Marseille and Palma de Mallorca before returning to Barcelona. I have posted galleries of Italy and Marseille elsewhere; this weekly blog is largely devoted to pictures taken onboard the ship, except for the last few, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":877,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1030\/revisions\/1032"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}