Portofino Island

The beginning of my adventure to Europa!

So in this travelogue I will tell you of my summer working on a cruiseship in the Mediterranean. Cruiseline: Oceania Cruises Ship: Nautica Date's on board: June 20-Aug 20 Arrive in Istanbul, Turkey Depart: Greece (i think!)

... shipmates are members of the wine club. We started with a few days in Nice and then visited the ports of Monte Carlo, Portofino, Calvi Corsica, Portoferraio/Elba, and Porto-Vecchio Corsica, before ending our cruise in Rome. We then took six days to see ...

... ! The water at the harbour was crystal clear and very blue! How pretty! It took us really long before we could settle at Portofino for lunch because we were really spoilt for choice! As the name reveals, we had Italian for lunch. The minestrone soup, our ...

... get used to this lifestyle. I took Jane and the girls out to dinner at the Olive Garden for dinner where I had a lovely Seafood Portofino and a glass or two of Pinot Grigio. This is a restaurant chain which is no longer in Canada and I do miss it ...

... nbsp;That has the most annoying way of happening to me... The NZ Comedy festival broke up the week nicely and a lovely dinner at Portofino and bar hoping in the Viaduct were keepers as far as memories go! Not to mention a very fun, ...

... zehn Minuten Fährenfahrt vom Zentrum der 1.2 Millionen Stadt Auckland entfernt. In einem romantischen italienischen Restaurant, dem Portofino lassen wir uns noch einmal kulinarisch verwöhnen. Schliesslich geht es in einem Tag weiter nach ...

... caught up with some people I'd met in Auckland.  I stayed at the hotel chatting until dinner at 7pm at a restaurant called Portofino's.  A group of us walked along the beach to get there, thus separating me from my car.  The restaurant was ...

... we headed in the general direction of the Viaduct  Basin to find a place for dinner. Finally settled on Italian at the Portofino Restaurant where we enjoyed pasta, tiramisu and a nice Pinot before catching a cab back to the Rendezvous and ...

... het niet nodig was en daar waar ze zaten waren we het vergeten.   Dinner : Portafino Italian Restaurant (http://www.portofino.co.nz/wellington.htm) Hotel : Holiday Inn Wellington Donderdag 17 februari  In Wellington was het weer volop ...

Today I woke up early around 8:15 to profit as much as possible the last full day of vacation:) I went for a run on the beach again with this poor bruised foot (will show another pic soon)...wasn't a pretty run ...but did the job.  I know I ...

... works.  We went to the Velvet Bar after dinner and had wonderful martinis.  We were going to grab a cab back to Portofino Bay due to the rain but discovered Universal runs a shuttle between its hotels.  That was a nice plus and the driver ...

... and that they made it for the guests and residents of Casa de Campo.  After hitting the beach, we continued onto the Portofino Marina.  Gail said that seeing this amazing marina made her skeptical of the validity of the story that a father built ...

... . Falling madly in love with the island as well as each other, they decided to relocate for good and bought the Portofino restaurant last year. Aaaaaah, you couldn't help but flood with fondness for our Bruce and Nancy. Our large starters of chicken ...

... what we had to wear. The second day Tony presented "Part 2" of his series, after Bernard's talk. We had dinner in the Portofino sit down restaurant and found it to be a great experience of several smallish courses, waiter service and a bottle of wine. On ...

... to typhoon. Frustrated! At 11am, frustration led to Portofino Beach in Mactan City for lunch and enjoyed strong waves in Portofino beach even typhoon is passing through. Then back to Diplomat Hotel after 2 hours.In the afternoon, around ...