Ajaccio – Corsica – 16 October 2025

A lovely town. We’d been there maybe twice before, many years ago. Another place with tree lined streets. The leaves were just beginning to change colour, just slightly behind the trees back home.

Thoughts about Ajaccio:

  • More motorbikes!
  • Lovely clean beach with clear blue water.
  • A woman wading thigh high in the water while wearing a straw hat.
  • Learners sailing little sail boats and being towed back after their lesson was finished.
  • Smart car parked at 90º to the kerb, but taking up just as little space as some of the bigger cars.
  • A private garden with exotic flowers and plants and a guard at the gate!
  • Plane trees everywhere.
  • Shop selling coats for cats and dogs. Scamp remembered the shop from the last time we were in Ajaccio!
  • Flying witch outside a toy shop.
  • Posh pedal cars for sale across the street.
  • In the evening we watched, two Irish girls dancing in the Atrium.

Sea Day – 15 October 2025

A chance to wander round the ship. Lots of new faces and actually quite a lot more folk in general on the ship. Probably because the schools are out for the October holiday in England.

Things we’ll remember:

  • Just watching the sea. Hoping to catch sight of some dolphins. None made an appearance!
  • We had become visitors to The Glass House. Food was very good and we had our lunches made fresh for us.
  • Watching folk doing Line Dancing from high up in the Atrium. NO, we did not take part.
  • Kora La for dinner at night. It’s a paid-for restaurant. I thought it wasn’t quite as good as the last time we were on a Tui ship.

Tomorrow we head to Ajaccio – Corsica

Palma revisited – 14 October 2025

We’d already decided to get an open topped Red Bus to take us from the ship to the cathedral, but the traffic was horrendous and I was beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea, after all, but it was. Beautiful buildings although there were hundreds, if not thousands of folk in the cathedral and the grounds. Lots of “Lookie Lookie men” doing good business selling ‘expensive’ bags and other touristy stuff at knock down prices.

The highlights for us were:

  • The open topped bus and the cool breeze it created once it was away from the main shopping areas.
  • Dates growing on trees.
  • Tree lined streets.
  • Old wrought iron, ball shaped street lights.
  • The Cathedral is magnificent inside and out.
  • Stone built windmills. Mostly old and needing some care and attention, but some that looked as if they could be repaired.
  • “Lookie Lookie men” everywhere.
  • The pond below the cathedral with a ‘crocodile’ in it.

Tomorrow we are at sea again.