Norwaylady goes b2b in the Mediterranean on Infinity 24.5-10.6.23 LIVE

[scrapcreator]

Looking forward to following your live girl’s trip!

 

We are heading your way on the Apex this summer.

[Norwaylady]

1 hour ago, Barwick Cruiser said:

Very exciting to open CC and see a new cruise posting from you! Your ports look great, keeping my fingers crossed for your upgrade to AQ for the second leg. You’re very lucky to be able to share these holidays with your Mom 😊  

 

Do you need to do any Covid testing along this journey? I’m not up to speed on requirements in Italy/Greece etc

Thanks🥰

no testing is required according to X information. So hopefully no stress for this😇

[Norwaylady]

Luggage packed✔️

Luggage tags printed ✔️

Hand luggage ✔️

Last meal together by Mr & Mr✔️

Cats grumpy, not cheering me away✔️ 

 

 

Checked in on Lufthansa✔️

 

Dinner tonight was 🐟😂😂😂 (cod from the north) 

 

We are spending the night at Radisson Red OSL. (Red eye flight and Mr & Mr didn’t want to get up early😝) 

Room has an excellent view over the airport. 

It’s good beds and great facilities, so one of my favourite places to stay of the airport hotels at OSL. 

And the best, you walk straight into the terminal✔️

 

How many pieces of luggage do we have🤔🤭

 

Our flight leaves from OSL 06.30 on Lufthansa to Frankfurt and then onward to Barcelona🙃 

 

So good night! 

[theopup]

Let the adventure begin ,

[abbydancer2003]

Have a great time.  Looking forward to reading this, and treasure your time with your mother.

[raudacruise]

Yay! Excited to follow your new adventure. 🍾🥂🚢  Looking for 2025 cruise ideas.  mN

[DaKahuna]

@Norwaylady  So looking forward to following along on your adventures with your mom on this B2B.  We've only read about many of the ports you will be visiting so can't wait to read your thoughts and view the many lovely pictures you always share.  

 

Bon Voyage 

 

[Norwaylady]

Rise & Shine ✨ 

 

04.00am wake up💃🏻

 

At the terminal at 05.00 and in the SAS lounge at 05.20. That’s all good🥰

Flight is on time as of now. 

 

LH uses the SAS Lounge at OSL. 

It’s Scandinavian breakfast service. 

Cold cuts, cheese, vegetables, bread, yoghurt, juices, coffee or tea. 

[Norwaylady]

LH is operating our flight to Frankfurt, FRA on a A321. 

It’s 2-classes. 2+2 in Biz and 3+3 in ECO.

We are seated in Eco. 

WiFi is available for a fee. 

They have 3-different prices. 

It deepens on the speed of the WiFi. 

Price/speed options: 

 

 

 

 

 

LH has food and drinks for purchase in economy class. 

 

Flight is not fully booked✔️

So empty middle seat for us👍🏻

Bags are loaded according to LH app✔️

Menu for purchase in economy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service is very German🤭 “Ordnung muss sein” So friendly, but German😊

LH group is okey, working well. (Did I say it to early🤔🤭) 

 

Our flight didn’t have any catering onboard🤪

Our aircraft was redirected from BCN during the night. 

 So it didn’t arrive as usual. So it had no catering, as the flight normally is loaded in FRA the night before it travels to OSL and stands in OSL for 5-6h. 

So our purser was not to happy about this…. (Welcome to business class, in this flight we are delighted to serve you a bottle of water and a chocolate😂😝) 

 

Flight left the gate on time 06.30. But we needed to wait for a slot for arrival in FRA….

We needed to wait until 07.20. 

 

Captain informed that today’s flight time is 1h 35.min. 

 

The crew handed out water bottles after take off. 

And took a tour halfway to give out some chocolate. 

 

We touch down in FRA 09.23. 

We were assigned a remote park in FRA but after touchdown, we parked at gate👍🏻

Perfect! 

[Norwaylady]

So we parked at A26, just a short walk up the escalator to the LH Biz Lounge. 

It’s one of the smaller lounges they have in FRA. 

But they have showers, a decent staffed bar. And a selection of coffee, tea, cold beverage and food. 

It was still breakfast service. 

So scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, yoghurt, cold cuts, cheese, croissants , baguette and melon. 
 

 

So we had some coffee and fruit. (Unfortunately it was fruit salad 🍍🍍🍍 no go for me🥴) 

 

Our next flight to BCN is an A321Neo, Biz 2+2, Eco 3+3.

It leaves from A24, so very convenient from the lounge. 

 

When we arrived on gate for boarding, they announced that it will be a 20.min delay before they start boarding due to gate change…..

 

Flight was overbooked, so completely full😅 no empty middle seat🙃

 

 

We left the gate 11.30 and take-off 11.45.

 

This flight has same service concept as last flight. (But this flight had catering delivered😌) 

Water bottle was delivered out just after the seatbelt sign was switched off and the complimentary chocolate. 

 

No WiFi on this aircraft. 

 

The red eye Blues kicked in during the flight😴 So a small power nap on the way.

 

We touch down in BCN at 13.30. 

Bags arrived on the belt asap when we walked into arrival. 

So out in a taxi at 14.05 and checked in at our hotel 14.35😎

 

The hotel Medinaceli looks good. Large room and very friendly staff. 

[mahdnc]

Welcome to Spain

[vickykay]

Looking forward to another adventure with you.  We’re supposed to do similar cruises but one cancelled due to Covid and next one cancelled as husband needed surgery for spinal stenosis.  Enjoy!

[Norwaylady]

After dropping off the bags and a light change off clothes. We went out for a little walk and some coffee. 

We went to the Bacilica of our lady Mercy, then had some coffee outside on the placa.

 

 

 

 

After our coffee break we took a in The Gothic area and then along the ocean before we went back to our room. (It’s not to warm for me🤣 so need to get a sweater) 

 

Tonight we are having dinner together by a friend of mine from university. She is working on a project in chemical engineering at a laboratory in Barcelona. So she’s living in Barcelona for a period. 

 

So very happy to be able to see her for dinner and a chat❤️ 

We had a lovely dinner at Sensi Tapas. Recommend to book a table in advance. It’s a very popular place. 

Great food & service🍴

Some of our delicious plates for sharing and their own wine aperitif: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow is CRUISING DAY⚓️😎🚢 💃🏻

We have 12.00pm check in time. (That’s super early for me😂🤭 normally Mr & I  are the latest to walk the gangway;) 

 

So we will have an easy morning, breakfast and then walk over to the cruise bus. 

[sbt518]

Have a fantastic trip with the Queen!

I'm excited to follow along on your mother/daughter adventures.  These are two great itineraries you are on, should be so much fun.

 

[theopup]

We ate at Sensi when in Barcelona in November. Very good food, I would also recommend it

[Norwaylady]

Goood Morning!

 

What day is it???? 

It’s CRUISING DAY🥳💃🏻⚓️

 

We are up and jumping🤩 ( maybe not the Queen😅 She doesn’t share my enthusiasm for early mornings😂) 

 

We slept good and the beds/room has everything we need. 

Breakfast is included in the price. It’s buffet style. 

It’s fruit, cold cuts, bakery items , cheese, yoghurt, juices, coffee & tea. 

So everything you need🍴

 

Attached is a map of our hotel location and cruise bus. It’s 400m walking distance on flat ground. The 🔵 dots are our hotel and bus stop. 

 

A metro map

 

And Barcelona Bus Turistico sightseeing bus. Map of routes. Their stop and service Center is 150m away from the hotel. All flat walking. 

 

 

Our hotel gave us a paper of their tour partners they use/can book in the reception or you can book directly online. 

 

Now it’s time to do some last minute duties on work before we head to the port! 

 

Sea you onboard⚓️💃🏻🤩

[mauimary]

Excited to follow your blog. You have such a fun way of writing. Love this time of year for cruising the Med before it gets hot. 

[Norwaylady]

So we walked to the cruise bus. All flat and easy walking by suitcases on wheels. 

We are the only ship in port today🤩🥳

 

Dropped off our bags 11.25 and checked in 2.mins later.

It has to be a first time for everything….

 

We received a waiting group😅🤭 number 14. 

They were calling group 7 when we entered the building. And it was quick up to 9. 

They also handed out the information paper we received by mail 2-weeks ago. Reminding everyone that Giro d Italia is closing off Rome. So X has cancelled all tours in the city centre. 

But they have lots of offers to other locations. Special for this sailing. 

 

We waited 15.mins before they called group 12-16👍🏻

 

So we are officially onboard⚓️

 

Bags are dropped off, sign is up, card’s collected and muster station is beeped✔️💃🏻🥳

 

 

 

 

The Queen has walked the spa and introduced for Persian Garden🤩👍🏻✔️

 

Now it’s time to lean back in a sun lounger😎🥰🥳

 

Cheers to a great cruise🥂 

[Norwaylady]

We have spent the day on a sun lounger by the pool. 

I picked up some salad and fruit from the buffet for lunch outside😎

It was crowded in the buffet😝

 

I tried to connect to the WiFi by the pool….

Let’s just say they need more capacity at the routers AND they need to reboot them🤓 (this is in Norwegian, but it means that the routers are full of clients and that you need to reboot it for updates) 

 

I went down to an empty Cafe Al Bacio🤔 Good for me🤩

Me & Al Bacio Crew is of to a great start🥰 

 

At 14.30 I went to the stateroom to see if our bags were dropped off. 

1 out 2 had arrived😝 Lucky me, it was mine👍🏻 So I have unpacked✔️

 

Paperwork in our stateroom: 

 

 

 

 

 

Todays Program:

 

 

[Norwaylady]

Sharing is caring? YES👍🏻

Since I’m in Europe, my cellphone work just as home. 

So what I need my included basic WiFi for is sending messages to Mr Norwaylady late in the evenings when I’m not able to connect to “local” cellular service. 

(It’s nice to be able to send him a good night message😘) 

 

As of now, the router by our stateroom has the same issue as the pool deck….

So this will be interesting to see if it will be functional🤔🤔🤔

The biggest problem is that I’m not allowed to use the app as wanted. Since I need to be logged onto the WiFi😣

[Ken the cruiser]

So, inquiring minds want to know. Was your free bottle of bubby sitting in a bucket of ice when you got to your Aqua cabin? 😂

 

Have a fun cruise!!

[Norwaylady]

10 minutes ago, Ken the cruiser said:

So, inquiring minds want to know. Was your free bottle of bubby sitting in a bucket of ice when you got to your Aqua cabin? 😂

 

Have a fun cruise!!

NO🤣🤣🤣

 

We have not had a visit from our stateroom attendant yet… 

So I hope X will come by before we go for show & dinner. 
(need to empty the mini bar… my mother needs it for some medical things) 

 

[Stem to Stern]

Bon voyage!

[Norwaylady]

Okey, I had to ask for assistance from i-lounge…. WiFi urgent needed during the evening🚨🚨🚨

And when we leave the local connection it’s a problem😳

 

My brother called the Queen…. The water alarm had closed off the water in his home and it was screaming🚨🚨🚨. 

(My younger brother is not 100% perfect…. He had a bumpy start of his life, so he has some defects of this. He is living by himself, but he needs help from time to time) 

 

So we called technical department😄 aka Mr Norwaylady🤩👍🏻

He is on the way for service and helping him out🤓🏎️🔨🔧

Fingers crossed it’s nothing wrong, just a sensor eager in service😇

 

WiFi connection: 

On this ship it’s impossible to use the WiFi if you have your settings to private.

Speedtest from the theatre 

[Norwaylady]

Tonight’s show was stand-up, Phil Walker. 

He was fun and entertaining. Maybe not everyone’s humour😂😂😂

 

We went from the show to dinner in Blu. 

It was not crowded and we had a nice table in the back of the restaurant. 

We went for the fish & seafood theme🦐🐟

 

 

We had the octopus and shrimp soup for starters. 

 

We both had the red snapper🐟🐟

 

For dessert…… 🥁 drumroll please! 

Ice cream and espresso macchiato👍🏻

 

All tasted excellent and presented good. 

 

Now it’s time for bed😴

 

Update from service team Mr Norwaylady: 

Water is back👍🏻 no leeks, a piece of metal was to close to the sensor, so it was mistakenly detected as water😂😂 

Everyone happy👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

 

Tomorrow we had planned to take the shuttle to Marseilles city centre…

But the Queen needs to attend a important meeting from 11-13🫡 (she was notified today) 

So a change of plan🙃

The Queen will sleep in and then attend the meeting…..

 

I have booked myself an excursion to Avignon & Pope’s palace…. 

Mr & I have visited Cassis, Luberon, Aix etc. 

So this is a new adventure👍🏻

It’s meeting time 08.00 in the theatre. 

 

Today’s paperwork: