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Venice
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| One of our favourite
places. We've been there several times & never get bored of
just wondering around all the twists & turns. |
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| Best thing in Venice
is to throw away the map, walk & get lost. |
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| The Groove Company mafia
enjoying Italian pizza! |
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St
Emilion
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| Partaking in the wine
tasting... Mike (drummer, left) & the lovely Nonna (centre). |
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Seville
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| Mike again.... toooo
many puddings!!! |
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Rome
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| View from the top of
St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. What a climb.... very hot day.
Did everything in about 8 hours then had to go to work. |
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Florence
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With Ian (drummer) eating
the most expensive ice cream ever on Ponte Vecchio bridge. We had
the morning in Florence before boarding a train to Piza and finally
returning to the ship. Another long day....
We've sailed around Italy on several occasions. One notable trip
was travelling to the top of Mount Etna, Sicily. It was spewing
rocks, groaning & steaming at us..... about a week later it
erupted. |
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Norway
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| On top of a mountain
somewhere in Norway. The Norwegian fjords are simply stunning. Watch
out for the trolls! |
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Spitzbergen
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| Technically probably
not Europe and we went there on Oriana (P&O) not Minerva - but
we had to mention it - stunning scenery..... We even saw a polar
bear.... well..... a yellow dot about 5 miles away. Chris Packham
(TV presenter) proudly announced, with the aid of his powerful telescope,
that the blip on the horizon was in fact a polar bear. So, all the
passengers went to dinner that night content that they had seen
a polar bear & would gloat about it to their friends when they
got home. |
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London
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| Even after travelling
to all these fantastic places there is still nothing better than
sailing up the Thames. Minerva used to dock alongside HMS Belfast
(see pic below), so they raised Tower Bridge for us on our triumphant
return from haggling in foreign lands. |
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| Ahhh the good old days.
Minerva was a lovely ship - only max 350 passengers so everyone
got to know each other during a 2 week cruise. And she was small
enough to get into some interesting ports that the larger cruise
liners cannot dock in. |
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