Almost time to go!

After a  long, and sometimes very cold, winter, it's nearly time for us to set sail.  We leave in less than a week for our next voyage on the Seabourn Quest.  We'll spend a few days in Rome and then board the ship to cruise from Civitavecchia to Dover, England.  There won't be many sea days on this trip and we've been to a number of the ports along the way. I'm hopeful that because of that we won't make too many forced marches in an effort to see everything there is to see in one day.  We have a few tours booked but some days we'll just play it by ear and wander. 

Our itinerary takes us along the coast of Italy and France and almost completely around the Iberian peninsula.  The last few days we'll spend on the northern coast of France including a sail up the Seine River and an overnight in Rouen. We have a day each in a couple of our favorite cities, Barcelona and Lisbon.  At our last port we'll have the opportunity to spend the day at the beaches of Normandy.  That's something I have always wanted to do because so many people have told me how moving it is.

Now all we have to do is pack (not my favorite thing at all!), get Emma the schnauzer settled at her vacation spa, and wait for our ride to the airport next Saturday.