This morning we
arrived in Barcelona around 5 am. It was disembarkation day for the Spain and
Portugal cruise passengers. Three
couples from our first group are staying on board for the Italy, Greece, Turkey
& Malta cruise that departed this evening.
This morning the temperature was 20 C with overcast skies
and a light wind. The Oceanview Café was
busy about 8 a.m., but most passengers were already waiting in lounges for
their disembarkation number to be called for transfers to the airport or train
station. Passengers staying at hotels
were leaving a bit later and there were 34 passengers staying for the next
cruise called Italy & Greek Isles. There
were about 200 people eating breakfast, much less than on other mornings. We stopped at the Café al Bacio to get take
away cappuccinos to have with breakfast.
After breakfast we walked out to
the walking track and then up to Deck 15 when we saw another cruise ship, Costa
Diadema, was entering the harbor and heading to a berth by our ship. We watched as the Diadema travelled backwards
to dock at Terminal “D”. It was at
least a 30 minute maneuver. Then it was
time to go down to Deck 4 to the Quasar Lounge to meet Vedrana and the
passengers continuing on the next cruise.
We had to officially “leave” the ship in one line and then as the line
continued we were issued our new Seapass card and had our photo taken, as we “boarded”
the ship. We were officially on the new
cruise. With that we did leave the ship via
a third kiosk where we were scanned out and walked to the Christopher Columbus
statue at the foot of the shopping street, La Rambo. It took about 25 minutes to walk there.
A new blog will be written for the new cruise.
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