15 Days remain

With only 15 days remain­ing before our vaca­tion (Inter­na­tional edi­tion) we are get­ting very excited for our trip!

The sense of excite­ment and pure panic are col­lid­ing and result­ing in a flurry of “how much work can I get done”, “how much stuff do we need to buy”, “what’s going on with these cats for a month”, “OMG, we don’t have a cat sit­ter any more!” and so on.

We will be gone for most of the month of May as we fly from Cal­gary to Rome, hop aboard a cruise for 10 days and then hack around France and make our way to Ams­ter­dam for the flight home.

For the cruise por­tion we will be aboard the Seabourn cruise lines, a lux­ury cruise with every­thing included (food, drinks, booze, etc). The only extras we need to cover is wifi and the shore excur­sions. The trip is a 10 day trip around the Mediter­ranean with 9 ports of call (two days in Barcelona).

The boat itself is quite small rel­a­tively speak­ing. With a max pas­sen­ger com­pli­ment of 208 and a crew of 168 there won’t be the insanely long lines at each meal. In fact with the extended time at each port (not leav­ing until 8-11pm isn’t unusual) we can eat at each port if we wish to change things up.