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You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced...
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Aug 19, 2023 08:00 PM Treviso is famous for...
It was 4 pm when we say goodbye to Gdansk, flying on Ryanair to Treviso near Venice. The flight was not full and (imagine!) we reachd destination 20 min ahead of time... 33 deg Celsius at 6 pm. Just opposite the terminal building there is little pension where they offer triple room with shared bath and fan for just 81 euro. We left our backpacks and took a walk (more than 4 kms each way to tje Old Treviso. I did not exspect that they have so many monuments in little Treviso! Churches, palaces, gates... But The most famous is a little stone fountain hidden in the
little courtyard - I did not see yet the drinking water falling from the breast of pretty lady. They call it Fontana delle Tette...
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Aug 18, 2023 08:00 PM New season, new voyage. But not alone!
I am starting another season of traveling! Normally, the inauguration of this season was in September, but this time I am taking my grandchildren Kamil and Kuba, who have to go back to school on September 1st, to start the new course.
Our journey will begin with a low-cost flight from Gda?sk to Trevisio near Venice. After visiting old Venice, we will board a ship in Ravenna and, sailing the entire length of the Adriatic and Mediterranean Sea, we will visit the next ports of Slovenia, Italy, France and Spain. We will organize tours and port visits on our own. From Barcelona we will return with a cheap flight straight to Gda?sk.
For Kamil and Kuba, it will be the first travel experience of this kind and a great adventure. Our ship, on which we will travel in the cheapest, inner cabin, is the American oldie "Enchantment of the Seas" built in 1997 and taking 2700 passengers. You will find "hot" messages from the route of this trip, as always, in my travel log.
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Jul 06, 2023 08:00 PM Travellers in Wojtkowka...
I spend my summer days in my cottage, surrounded by blossoming garden. My friends and visitors from all over the world are coming for the night or two, enjoying fresh strawberries snd sweet cherries. Recently I hosted Vojtech from Czech Republic - experienced traveller flying from Norway via Gdansk to Turkey. We had a good tome talking about our climbings of Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa... Thank you, Vojtech! Welcome all to Wojtkowka, - the meeting place of world travellers!
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May 11, 2023 08:00 PM Spring in Wojtkowka
Lovely, sunny spring came to Gdansk. I am working every day in my Wojtkowka enjoying flowers around and meeting first travellers - some of them are helping me to spray vegetable beds with water because at least since one week we did not have here any rain. Cherry trees are already in blossom - see the picture! Wojtkowka is open again for the travellers from all over the world!
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May 04, 2023 08:00 PM Landing in Savona
At the sunrise our ship carefully entered little port of Savona. Blue sky, lovely breakfast with a view of the green hills on the coast. At 9 am I was ready to disembark after thanking and saying warm goodbye to my cabin steward and brilliant waiter Raydante. Both of them are from the Philippines... With carry-on baggage only there was no need to wait for the baggage (when thousand plus passengers is disembarking it is a problem) Then O took a walk across Savona town to the station. Ticket to the nearest airport in Genova costs 4,90 euro and the ride took me 45 minutes.
In Genova my short, low-cost plane to Naples was on time. From Naples I have direct Ryanair flight to my Gdansk, where I will be landing aroung 7 pm - very convenient and inexpensive connection. Another lovely voyage is coming to the end!
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May 03, 2023 08:00 PM Marseille -Marsylia in blue
We reached Marseille today at 7 am. Lovely weather! Blue sky, blue water in the bay. And as much as 5 big cruise ships in the port! The ship offers shuttle bus to the centre of the city for 13 euro RT. They will not tell you that from the port gate there is free port bus to the Jolliette Square. So I took the walk and skip extra expense. Last time when I have been here the weather was cold and windy. Today - just wonderful weather to walk the boulevards to the well lnown places like Old Port with the fishermen selling fish. But I discovered also mew place: monumental stairs climbing from old city to the gare St Charles. The main vity landmark is the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde on the 150-m hill overlooking the city and port. I was climbing to those ornate church third time - it is worth
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May 02, 2023 08:00 PM Plaza Catalunya...
Lovely, sunny day on Barcelona. The guys from the ship pffer the shuttle bus from the port to the city center for 13 euro RT but I know well my way and it will be great walk through Europa Bridge to the Columbus Column and then all over the way along the busy Rambla Avenue, full of strolling tourists to the central Plaza Catalunya. Unfortunately the fountains on the plaza do not work today. But the square is full of pigeons and you can have for just 2 euro picture with a white-painted lady... It is nice to refresh here my old memories of Barcelona... 5 kms walk there and 5 kms return. Not a bad score!
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May 01, 2023 08:00 PM Day at sea...
To the next port - Barcelona we have to sail more than 500 nautical miles so it will be the full day at sea today! Sunny weather, suitable for sunbathing - but I am spending on the dack only 2 hours per day - I do not want to suffer! :) There are different activities on the ship from the dance school, dofferent trivia, sport matches, lectures but I always waif for the evening show in the theater - today we had a quartet of the musical songers. They were really great! Later I was dancing with a Brasilian lady...
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Apr 30, 2023 08:00 PM Already in the Europe - Malaga
When we passed Gibraltar at 9 am there was thick fogg. Gibraltar rock was not visible at all! In the fogg we were sailing all over the way to Malaga. My friends Sveta, Oleg and their daughter Paulina were waiting for me at the exit from the port. They live here since 3 years. I met them once on the cruise ship. We spent together few lovely hours enjoying the streets and parks of old Malaga. The weather was already excellent in the afternoon allowing to appreciate the jacaranda thees - all in violet flowers. Finally we took the bus 35 to the ruins of the Arab castle Gibralfaro. A great panorama of the port and city opens there. Thank you dear friends for your invitation and company.
:) Welcome to Gdansk!
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Apr 28, 2023 08:00 PM Santa Cruz de Tenerife
After six days in the Atlantic Ocean today at the sunrise I saw again the land: Tenerife Island. For the cruise ships crossing the ocean Tenerife is like the lighthouse announcing the proximity of Europe... Just after the sunrise we entered the cramp port to meet another ship of the same company: Costa Diadema. I have been here many times but it is always nice to stroll along the waterfront promenade, enjoying the sun and lovely temperature of 22 deg. Celsius. Finally we have European news on TV! The temperature in Malaga, where we are heading is abnormal: 36 deg. Are we going back to the tropics?
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