Category: October Cruise 2025

Cagliari is the capital city of the Italian island of Sardinia and is an old fashioned town. We spent most of our time wandering around the narrow streets. Scamp wanted to climb up to the hilltop Castello, a medieval walled quarter situated high over the rest of the town. By the time we got to the top we were exhausted, but the views round the city were amazing.

Things we’ll remember:

• The climb up to the Castello.
• Scamp got a silver ring from a wee jewellers shop in the city.
• The heat in the city.
• Watching a rather ugly ship berthing next to us, The Virgin ship Scarlet Lady. I preferred our smaller ship.
• Trees everywhere in the city.
• Hills everywhere too. Good exercise.

PoD was the view to the front of our ship taken from our cabin.

The first sea day of this year’s cruise.

Sea days are usually the first day of the cruise. Yesterday evening we sailed away from Palma and headed east towards Sardinia. That would take a full day’s sailing. Sea days tend to be a bit boring, because you can’t get off the ship, but there are lots of things to do on the ship

Here are some of our memories:

• Breakfast in the posh restaurant.
• Very slow service.
• Salsa dance class with Kevin & Gabriella. Good dancers, poor teachers.
• We all learned the steps, but nobody learned to actually Dance.
• Scamp made friends with a pink llama.
• Walking around the ship, finding more places.
• Went to the show, ‘Revive’ Brilliant show.

PoD was a distorted view looking up at the ceiling of the breakfast room.