For a second time, I awoke to find myself cruising gently along the Suez Canal towards the Mediterranean Sea. My Daily Programme for Saturday 28th April tells me that the Canal is 106 nautical miles. We transited the Suez Canal at around 8 knots. Despite a cooler forecast than in recent days, the weather turned out to be wonderfully hot. We are now at sea in the Mediterranean after a wonderful relaxing passage through the Suez Canal.
My first sojourn along here was on board Queen Mary 2’s maiden World Cruise of 2007. That final sector was a mere two weeks’ duration, and was towards the end of March. By the time we reached Civitavecchia, Italy, there was no trace of the previous days’ warmth with sleet evident in the precipitation. I soon turned around and re-joined the ship, not really interested in a train ride to Rome.
Today, the Captain has just announced cancellation of our call at Naples; currently no dock can accommodate Queen Mary 2. Instead, we shall anchor off Sorrento. This affords a magnificent opportunity to travel on the little electric railway to either Naples, Pompeii, or Vico Equense, where I used to holiday frequently in the 1980s.
As for today, I shall submit pictures from where the internet works a lot better.
Thanks again for reading,
David.
All the best, David.
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