We have started phase two of our Italian Adventure aboard the Silhouette, a ship still in its inaugural season. It capacity is 2,886 guests, its cruising speed 24 knots, for those of you into statistics.
We boarded the ship in Rome’s cruise port,Civitavecchia, on Thursday – a beautiful, sunny morning as evidenced by the photo above. We sat on this deck enjoying a leisurely lunch and sipping a glass of welcome champagne while awaiting the announcement that our rooms were ready to occupy.
And at 1 p.m. we were settling into our floating home for the next 12 days. Thanks to a recommendation from the agency we use for booking our cruises we ended up with a balcony large enough for eight people and a room of almost the same size!
Everything is large and spacious on this ship – even the lawn art. Being part of the Solstice Class ships, we do have a 15th floor lawn – that many have remarked is much greener than what they left back home.
Our route will loop us around Italy’s boot: yesterday we were in Napoli, today Sicily and tomorrow Malta (which was one of the reasons this routing called out to us). Then we have a day to rest our senses before visiting Greece, Montenegro, Croatia and four more ports in Italy before ending up in Venice.
Now that the computer is up and running again (we took a break from computers for a few days) I will tell you more about the wonderful ports we’re visiting aboard this luxurious supersized yacht on which we are sailing.
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