Gym at 8am to work a sweat before the morning croissants. Today we won’t reach Ibiza until 7pm so we have all day on the ship with nothing to see out in the ocean until 5pm. At 11:30 we all go to the lounge where they have the election of “Mister Coral”. I’m glad I didn’t sign up. The cruise director is always trying to have us all participate in everything. Instead I do some reading. They start an hour of karaoke and I put my name on the list to please my brother.
We then go to lunch. It seems all we do is eat. The weather is the best it’s been so far since we left Marseille. The sky is blue the sun is shining, and the temperature is perfect. After our meal we go back to our spot in the lounge. Neither one of us want to be in the sun. I do some more reading while mom and sis do some craft projects with the passengers. My brother is listening to music. An hour later they have a dance class (like everyday) and today the selection is “merengue”. We all take part and it is lots of fun. Then we play games with the cruise animation crew.
Around 4:30 we start seeing an island on the horizon and I go back and forth between the deck and the lounge. I cannot wait to get to Ibiza. I read some more until we get close to Formentera which is about ½ hour from Ibiza. I think everybody is anxious to get off the ship for different reasons. Excitement, tiredness of being “stuck”… but the first glimpse we have of the fortress and its cathedral perched on a hilltop with the city laying on its flanks (both within the walls and outside) and going all the ways down to the ocean is superb.
Mom is still not feeling too good and decides to stay on board. We leave the ship around 7:15pm and head straight to the fortress and its cathedral. It’s beautiful. Once inside, it reminds us of Tangier and its “souk”. We find streets going up and down and left and right, steps, and sudden turns making you feel like you’re going in the wrong direction. Unlike Tangier though, everything is clean, cute, pretty (and a bunch of other similar synonyms) and you don’t really care if you get lost or not. We start by walking up on the wall around the fortress for the amazing view. From there we see Formentera and a few other islands. We then venture in the streets after a stop at the cathedral.
We finally get out of the fortress and walk around town for a while. It’s as if everybody just woke up. The city comes to life late in the evening. Everything is open, stores, restaurants. Dinner is a late affair in most of Europe anyway. The evening is perfect and it’s wonderful to just walk around.
It is getting late and we decide to go back to the ship to have dinner. We don’t want to rush having only about an hour left before we have to be back on the ship. The island is really known for its nightlife and unfortunately we will not have time to experience any of its 40 clubs.
We find mom who just finished her dinner. I guess we’ve been like Dartagnan and the 3 Musketeers since the start of the cruise, always together all the time. Today the staff kept asking my mom where we were! We eat and then all go to the show (a 70’s extravaganza). After the show Paolo and I go up to the disco but the music is not to my taste and I go to bed. We have to wake up early tomorrow anyway and it’s past midnight.
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okay, as have you decided who you are going to vote off the ship? ;) I hope all is great and that you continue to have a wonderful time. nothing too exciting happening here is SD. miss ya :)
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