After three days of touring Italy, of gelato, espresso, long bus rides, beautiful boat rides and so much shopping, a sea day was everything we couldn’t admit we needed. I like to think that I can power through anything – that I recognize my own limits and if push came to shove, I’d know when Read more
We have a formula for sea days that works well for us. We wake up, we grab breakfast (or coffee), we lay out at the pool, we brunch, we shower, we play trivia, we do tea, we nap, we get ready for dinner, we see a show, we go to the bar or the shops Read more
After our first two sea days, this cruise felt like it was going to go on forever. Not that that would be a bad thing. I wouldn’t have cried if this cruise never ended. When we hit Antigua, though, everything started to go into hyper motion. Days that lingered on a little long suddenly ended Read more
Second verse, same as the first. That’s how the saying goes, right? Old clichés aside, our second sea day began in a near exact repeat of our first day: we woke up earlier than we should have given that we were on vacation and we headed upstairs to the Lido deck for some coffee. When Read more
When we woke up on our first sea day, the sun was perched high and the seas were smooth. We couldn’t ask for anything more. Sea days for us mean a day of laying out in the sun, of catching up on reading, of really doing nothing consequential at all. They are the most relaxing Read more
