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Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy

Where's the coliseum?! 2 hours away! Darn it. I'll have to see that next time. Today I'm on duty day for a few hours so I can't leave the ship except to maybe quickly pop into town and get a few things- rubbish. But, I finally got the wireless internet sorted so I don't have to go into the smokey crew room to use the computer, I can just sit on the floor in my cabin and use my own computer on my own time, and now I'll maybe be able to start posting some photos. WOO HOO!!
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Ajaccio, Corsica, France

AJACCIO IS GORGEOUS!! The cliffs along the shoreline with the mountains in the background, the buildings, everything- GORGEOUS! Shame I had some inductions to go to and was kept quite busy so I wasn't able to take any pictures or get off the boat, but that will change next time. One word for this port- stunning!
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Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain and Canary Islands

After arriving in Majorca had to wait for a transit van to come pick myself up and another guy that was joining the ship that day. It's about 15 m minutes to the ship he says. It wasn't too long after I landed that I realized something very important- my spanish is appalling!!! I haven't practiced since high school (and I won't mention what year I graduated- so if you know great, I'll hurt you later- just kidding). I tried to remember some of the spanish that I was taught, but it's so basic, a 5 year old would speak it better than me, and they themselves are only just learning.

As we're driving around Palma, it's GORGEOUS! I look to the left and there is the harbor with tons of cruise ships, yachts, cruisers, amazing! On the right is the HUGE stone building. I asked the driver what it was and he said it was a cathedral and the building attached to it is where the big political people stay when they come into town! IT'S HUGE!! Biggest cathedral I've ever seen, and I've seen some whoppers in my time! I had to take a picture of it, which I will post at another time!

After we turn go along the road about 2 minutes later, we take a left onto the harbor and I see the ship- GINORMOUS!!! It's 12 stories high and only 2 of them are below water level! OMG!!! Sure enough, since I've been here, I've been getting lost- pretty much everytime. It's funny but also annoying when I have to wake up early in the morning to be somewhere. I don't have to wake up as early as normal because i'm already where I need to be, just need to go up a few stories, but that proved not to be the case. I, in fact, still need to wake up an hour before being somewhere just to give myself time for getting lost and finding my way around. I am getting slightly better. I know my way from my cabin to the theatre, and other important areas like the staff mess. Very important. Having to share a cabin at the moment until the STage Manager before me leaves, but after that I get a cabin to myself. The girl I'm sharing a cabin with at the moment is named Nataly and she's Ukranian. Very nice girl, we tend to stay up if we both get back around the same time and have nice long chats. She's lovely and probably helping me adjust to ship life by not letting me be alone for the first week. As of next week, I move into the stage manager's cabin which will be just me, which is good because I work weird hours, sometimes late nights, sometimes followed by early mornings, and she's on a varying schedule as well so it's hard to come in sometimes and try not to wake each other, but we're doing ok so far, and it's really helping me adjust.
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Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Day 1 f my travels and saying goodbye was the hardest thing I had to do. Poor cab driver was sitting in the cab for about 5-10 minutes while I was crying and saying goodbye to John. At one point he said to me "I'm gonna marry you one day." To which I giggled and said "You bet our ass you are."
Upon arriving at Gatwick at 6am (ugh) I was very tired from not sleeping the night before, so I tried to take a short nap in the airport, but obviously that wasn't going to happen, but once I was on the plane, I was out like a light, which is good because I hate flying anyway.
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Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

5 November 2008
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Naples, Campania, Italy

4 November 2008
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Messina, Sicily, Italy

3 November 2008
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Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain and Canary Islands

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Valencia, Valencian Country, Spain and Canary Islands

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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and Canary Islands

30 October 2008
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