April 29, 2022: Revisiting Old & Exploring New Places
Spring time in Europe! What can be better, especially after these past two years of going nowhere? Originally this trip was scheduled for 2021 but we all know how that went. Since we leave next week (May 4) I assume that it will be a “go” unless we fail our Covid antigen tests scheduled before we leave for Europe.
Where are we going? We are scheduled to sail with our favorite cruise line-Regent Seven Seas with two fellow retired AO Smith colleagues (and wives) on a 16 day cruise that begins in Monaco and finishes in England, weaving our way along the coast of France, Portugal, and Spain. We were also supposed to visit Casablanca, Morocco but a last minute switch had to be made and we will dock in Ceuta, Spain. Never heard of it but learned it is a small Spanish colony on the north coast of Africa, next door to Morocco.
Yes, we have already visited these countries, multiple times so I do not get credit for a new country added to my “Countries Visited” bucket list. However, many of the stops we will make will be new to us and those we have visited in the past were often so long ago that they will seem like first time visits to me.
Past blogs were super time consuming to create because I used a camera to take pictures which I then had to upload to incorporate into this blog. Recently I have experimented with simply using my iPhone to take pictures (turns out they take marvelous ones) which automatically end up on this iPad, hopefully making selection and incorporation a much faster process. Time will tell!
So onward! The wanderingbishops are on the road again (cue the music)!