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HAPPY NEW YEAR

April 29th 2014 Minorca to Lisbon then Southampton.

Well we had a lovely day in Port Mahon (Minorca) it was a really nice town and because Adonia is a small ship she was able to berth in the small harbour, most cruise ships have to anchor out to see and use there lifeboats to tender the passengers to the shore. It was really […]

April 23rd Tunisia to Minorca

It was a nice warm day when we docked in La Goulette in Tunisia we had no planned tour so we just went ashore for a look around. It was very nice walking in the sun and looking round the local shops. Sheila had a photograph with a local band (they didn’t offer her a […]

April 23rd Tunisia to Minorca

It was a nice warm day when we docked in La Goulette in Tunisia we had no planned tour so we just went ashore for a look around. It was very nice walking in the sun and looking round the local shops. Sheila had a photograph with a local band (they didn’t offer her a […]

April 23rd Tunisia to Minorca

It was a nice warm day when we docked in La Goulette in Tunisia we had no planned tour so we just went ashore for a look around. It was very nice walking in the sun and looking round the local shops. Sheila had a photograph with a local band (they didn’t offer her a […]

April 21st Athens to Tunis

We arrived in Athens on what was a cool morning the temperature has been dropping as we make our way through the Med. Athens was wonderful we went to the Acropolis and other ancient sites before spending a wonderful afternoon exploring the Plaka a maze of small streets selling all manner of things. We were […]

18th April Haifa and Limassol

We had a two day stay in Haifa and made the most of our stay by exploring this fine city others from the ship went off on very long trips to Jerusalem and Nazareth. The weather was great and we really enjoyed the cable car ride up to the top of mount Carmel. We stopped […]

April 12th Mumbai and beyond.

Interesting is the best way to describe Mumbai,we went on a tour that took in the Gate of India, a museum and Ghandi’s house before going shopping, in this particular case the shopping experience was not good, pestered at every turn by people selling trinkets, beggars and small children demanding a Dollar!!!!!! Not good we […]

April 5th Sri Lanka to India

We had three really restful days at sea and after our hectic start to this cruise it was nice to slow down. Sea days have been enjoyable with flat seas and air temperatures in the 30’s, we have kept ourselves amused with sunbathing,swimming and dancing lessons yes Norwyn agreed, things are not going well on […]

March 30th 2014 Asian adventure update

WOW what a hectic but fantastic few days we have had. Let’s start with the flight we had a good flight on Qatar airlines to Doha but it arrived almost 45 minutes late leaving us 10mins to catch our connecting flight to Singapore. But being the Parkers we made just!!!!!!! On arrival in Singapore we […]