Well, here we are in Crete! We are taking it easy today. In fact our only objective was to find WiFi!
So here we are sipping on a frapé in the main square of Iraklion. Needless to say it is hot! [Read more…]
High Seas: Day 6, at sea
We had a relatively relaxed day at sea. Our first activity was a tour of the ship’s kitchen at 10:30. It was basically a walk through but very interesting. There are 120 cooks and 30 support staff to create the 12000 daily meals! Now we know where it all comes from!
High Seas: Day 5, Haifa and Sea of Galilee
We had lovely views from the balcony as we docked in Haifa. The Ba’hai Gardens are something else! We took a tour with Guided Tours Israel this day (GTI) that would bring us to Nazareth, Cana, the Church of the Beatitudes, Tabgha, Capernaum, and the Jordan River at Yardenit. Our group was quite strange – no one talked even amongst themselves and our guide lacked time management skills so it was a bit of an odd day. We’re glad we did it but it didn’t leave us overly enamoured with what we saw.
High Seas: Day 4, Ashdod (Jerusalem)
We ordered our breakfast in our cabin to facilitate the early meeting time of 7:50 with our taxi mates. Our group was Debora and Neil from California, Fran and Ian from Montreal, Gunila and Ecran from Denmark, and ourselves. The disembarking process was fairly straight forward but with additional passport checks and security. Soon we were entering the taxi fray! Actually it wasn’t that bad.
High Seas: Day 3, at sea
Today was a navigation day as we made our way to Israel. Our first duty of the day was to pass through Israeli immigration. We basically just had to pick up our passports that were handed in at check in and the have a quick face to face with an immigration inspector. Afterwards we had arranged to meet up with some people who were also hoping to take a taxi into Jerusalem the next day (Javi and Virginia were taking a tour to include the dead sea so Carlos and I were on our own). We had connected through the cruise critic forum and facebook and in the end we were a group of 8 with our fingers firmly crossed that everything would work out with the minimum of chaos!
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