April 26 Day 1
Last night we left Alexandria, Egypt and headed north westerly to our next port, Dubrovnik, Croatia. We will be at sea for 2 days for this crossing, the last 2 sea days on this World Cruise. We’ll be packing more of our clothes as well as giving away some clothes and other items to lighten our load when we disembark in Venice, Italy.
Woke to a nice sunny morning but there is a chill in the air, we were able to sit on the balcony as long as we had the sun. Our team tied for first place in trivia today but unfortunately lost the tie breaker. Tonight is the last formal night, but we packed our formal clothes (on purpose). It is also the Captain’s Farewell Cocktail Party, which we will also skip as I hate fighting for a drink. Instead we went to the Bistro, Betty I & both had a cocktail before dinner. Then we had a great dinner, I had the best lasagna I ever ate. We were joined by our friends Irene and Richard and spent a couple hours talking. It was a great evening.
We had a port talk on Koper, Slovenia and look forward to being able to visit this country as we have never been there. It sounds very interesting.
Our cabin steward’s wife had a baby two days ago and showed us a picture this morning he was so cute. He is part Romanian and Part Thai, an interesting combination. At 7:00p.m we pass Gavdos Island which is off the Greek Island of Kiriti.
April 27 Day 2 and Last sea day of this cruise.
Woke to another beautiful sunny day with calm seas, but it is cool. During the day the ship will set more of a north-north westerly heading as we travel through the Ionian Sea passing along the coast of Greece. We will enter the Adriatic Sea and transit the Coast of Albania, Yugoslavia.
Betty attended the last culinary class and received a diploma. Maybe she can get a job when we get home.
Trivia today was the last we played as the next two days are port days. Let’s just say we had fun playing, winning isn’t everything! We also had our last Scholarship at Sea with John Renninger on The Balkans. Tab Hunter also talked on his 1958 movie Gunman’s Walk.
Tonight we went to dinner for the last time in the Dining Room as I am sure we will enjoy eating ashore in both Croatia and Slovenia. Tonight’s show was a comedy juggler named Jonathan Stamp which we skipped, decided to get to bed early as we plan on a long day ashore tomorrow.
Throughout the night we will continue to transit the coast. As we approach we will set various courses through the inner waters making our way towards our berth in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
