Live from the Pride!

[CarnivalShips480]

14 minutes ago, bar1068 said:

No wonder Heald never answered my questions!! Very disappointing. Thanks.

When did you ask? He has been off the past few days to tour Venezia and visit Pride.

[bar1068]

2 minutes ago, CarnivalShips480 said:

When did you ask? He has been off the past few days to tour Venezia and visit Pride.

Before he left for Venezia and Pride.

[lennythenose]

36 minutes ago, Eli_6 said:

It isn't there.  No David at all. 

🙁

[kwokpot]

40 minutes ago, Eli_6 said:

.that's probably partially my own issues because I have construction ptsd after our 18-months, 300k remodel that was supposed to cost 150k and be done in 3 months.

I hear you on that one. Having work done as we speak myself. Stress! Had new sidewalks poured. The expansion joints (those lines in the concrete) don't all look perfectly straight. I expected better since the company we chose works on major renovation projects on commercial buildings in downtown Philly.And it's ridiculously expensive! We'll see how this gets remedied.  

[Out of Iowa]

Perhaps the next time you are in Britain, you can take your boys (just the right age) for an eerie, late night Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London?  The website for Historic Royal Palaces has the details.  The atmosphere is spectacular...and your boys will remember the items on display and the tales they heard on the guided tour this year.

[Eli_6]

Today was Lisbon!  Love ❤️ 😍 💖 Portugal! We went to sintra.  Did private tour booked through viator. E.hello tours.  Was amazing!!!!  Went to so many places. 

 

 

[Eli_6]

[oakridger]

You are having beautiful days so far!  I am enjoying following along.

 

~Nancy

[MagnoliaBlossom]

On 5/30/2023 at 12:08 PM, ninjacat123 said:

Carnival says they have "kits" for sensory adverse passengers.  They should have those kits on hand for this.  That bites.

I always thought that kit was just called tequila. 😵‍💫

[Eli_6]

Electricity went off for an hour last night.  Fortunately,  it came back on.

[Eli_6]

Going to Braga today on a Carnival excursion. 

[Eli_6]

Pic from one of the Cathedrals we went to. (My husband edited out the people. )

 

Very tired so sorry for not posting more.

[JMAE]

On 5/30/2023 at 1:04 PM, bar1068 said:

No wonder Heald never answered my questions!! Very disappointing. Thanks.

JH noted that David was being removed in one of his Pride updates two or three weeks ago. 

[bar1068]

15 minutes ago, JMAE said:

JH noted that David was being removed in one of his Pride updates two or three weeks ago. 

I certainly missed that…still very disappointed 

[Eli_6]

In David's place, we have Steve greeting us at the port of La Coruna:

[Eli_6]

We went to Santiago today 

[Eli_6]

As an aside,  we did the Galician Gardens or something similar today and while Santiago was highly impressive,  the gardens at Pazo de Oca looked like what my yard probably looks like right now.  

[Eli_6]

Well, Le Havre canceled because the French are striking. Eye roll.  So, we are going to Amsterdam instead. 

[Eli_6]

Dinner very good tonight. In general, the food has been reasonably good.  

[let's go cruising]

2 hours ago, Eli_6 said:

Dinner very good tonight. In general, the food has been reasonably good.  

Looks good! What is it all?

[Eli_6]

We went to San Sebastian today on the Carnival excursion.  I do not recommend doing this.  Too fast of turn around.   They only allowed us 3 hours there and the meet up place was a 20-25 minute walk from beach/old town so really only had about 2 hrs.  We didn't even get to eat lunch.  Actually tried to and had to leave because restaurant was taking so long and got cursed at in Spanish.  Basically an hour waiting in theater/boarding the bus, 3+ hours on bus, and 50 minutes of walking to take pics of a beach and stick your toes in the sand.  

 

The weird thing is the excursion left 2 hours after the boat docked so I don't understand why we didn't leave 2 hours earlier.  If we had had 5 hours there instead of 3, it might have been worth it. But definitely not for so little time.  

[Eli_6]

15 hours ago, let's go cruising said:

Looks good! What is it all?

Watermelon chilled soup, antipasto,  quiche, and Cesar salad.

[Eli_6]

I have also been divested of the desire to travel "on my own" in non-English speaking countries because it has become abundantly clear to me that speaking un poquito Espanol may cut it in Mexico,  but not in Spain where they have 4 languages and one (Galician) is closer to Portuguese than Spanish and the other (Basque) isn't even an Indo-European language at all. I think I will stick to cruising to see Europe even if it is like trying to drink out of a fire hydrant.  

[Eli_6]

[Eli_6]

The above and below is San Sebastian