Westysclan World Cruise 2023

After yesterday’s awful weather it was a relief to arrive in a sunny Cobh. It was literally a hop, step and jump from the gangway to the train station, so we decided to go to Cork first. We had found an ‘ orienteering’ heritage trail  map of Cork that we decided to follow. Here are…

Today was a sea day as we travelled from Greenock, Scotland to Cork, Ireland. It was also our Christmas in July day. The crew had gone to lots of effort to put Christmas touches around the ship. The weather even did its part to make it feel like a Northern Hemisphere Christmas day. It was…

We arrived to a very damp Greenock. After the wet walk from the ship to the cruise terminal we quickly decided that it might be best to head straight to Glasgow in the hope of no, or less, rain. Once again, with no specific sightseeing goals for Glasgow, we let geocaching be our guide. It…

On our previous visit to Belfast we did the top 2 (in my opinion) activities – the Titanic Experience and a Black Cab tour. Today we did the 4 compass points of Belfast. The shuttle bus took us all the way from the port into the centre of town. Armed with our tourist map and…

Since leaving Lisbon the temperature has taken a noticeable decline. Not quite jumper weather, but instead of spending our sea day afternoons in the fresh air by the open air pool, we have been back to the hot tub in the covered pool area. We have not been to this part of Wales before but…

Lisbon was another repeat city for us, having visited here in 2012. We had driven in from Madrid and didn’t realise that we had crossed the Prime Meridian into a different time zone. It took us to the next morning, when we were super early for our guided tour of the city much to the…

Tangier represented both a new city and country for us. Very exciting! We had originally decided to walk from the ship, but with the free shuttle bus being right there when we stepped off the ship, we made a quick change of plan and hopped on. Unfortunately we didn’t get very far because the poor…

Today’s city was a new destination for us, so we were excited to go exploring. Having purchased our 1 euro tourist map from the cruise terminal and with geocaches loaded we headed off before it got too hot and busy. From the cruise terminal it was a short walk along an area called Muelle Uno…

We had been to Barcelona in 2012 but did not spend much time in the city centre. In 2012, Barcelona was the first place that we swam in the Mediterranean Sea. Today we caught the shuttle bus which took us from the cruise terminal to the World Trade Centre. From here it was a short…

Today we arrived at the very busy cruise terminal in Marseille.  In addition to us, the much bigger Enchanted Princess was in port as well as an MSC ship. We caught the shuttle bus into the city/old port area and once again let geocaching be our guide to the sights. After our 100% success rate…