We recently took our girls on a 10 night Mediterranean Cruise sailing from Barcelona, Spain.
As you can tell from the picture, there is a rather large age gap between the girls - 7 years to be exact. Travelling with a young person (5 yrs old) and a teenager is both easy and hard. With this Blog I hope to detail our journeys so others can learn from our mistakes and successes.
We started off in Barcelona, Spain. Thankfully a direct flight from Toronto, sadly on Air Rouge. That will be a topic for another post! We wanted to give our selves some time in Barcelona to see the sights but importantly to allow the girls to acclimatize to the time change. Are we ever happy we did. The girls needed a full two days to get accustomed to the time change. We all slept in on day 2 and missed our timed entry to the Picasso Museum = so I guess it wasn't only the girls who needed the extra day.
The cruise took us to the French port of Villefranche, and 5 Italian ports of call - Sicily, Rome, Naples, Sardinia, Florence and Pisa. The last port was Palma on the Spanish island of Majorca. I will spend time on each port to give you some insight on our experiences.