MickeyandKimWorldAdventures

  Walvis Bay, Namibia Not knowing what to expect from Walvis Bay, we booked on a tour with some of the friends we have made on the ship.  Each of us has taken ports and come up with suggestions that you can choose to join, or not, depending on what we wanted to do.  This one seemed interesting to us so off we went on another boat trip - as if we aren't on the water enough!  The morning took us to the harbor where we could see our docked ship, and we jumped on our charter catamaran.  Before we even hit the open water, our guide called "incoming" and lo and behold, in came pelicans.  As you will see in the pictures, we had lots of visitors during our journey that morning.  Talk about getting close and personal with the wildlife.   And of course, the seals had to join us. Next, we sailed to an area that there were some local dolphins called Heavisides dolphins. This small dolphin grows up to 1.2 meters, or 4 ft. long and attains a mass of up to 40 ki...

  Corfu, Greece We arrived in Corfu, Greece to the sight of sailboats and a wonderful sunrise. Corfu itself is only 36 miles long and at its widest point, 17 miles. Corfu is mainly made up of limestone and is well watered, fertile, its main product is olives, but it also grows figs, oranges, lemons, grapes, corn and kumquats. We learned that the kumquats are used to make some pretty tasty kumquat liquor as well as candied kumquats. In 2007, the Old Town of Corfu was named a UNESCO World Heritage site. Our last visit to Corfu took us to some villages in the mountains, Paleokastritsa and Lakones, so we chose to do a hop on hop off tour with some friends, and toured the old fort, which we did not have time for on our last visit.  The fort is a Venetian fortress that was built in the early 15th century.  We had planned on also touring the Achillion Palace which was built for Empress Elizabeth of Austria, also known as Sisi.  It was unfortunately closed for renovations, s...

Trieste, Italy Happiest of birthdays to Mickey!  It's been a wild ride so far! We headed back to our ship in Trieste, Italy to deposit our luggage before our tour, which took us to Postojna Cave, the queen of all caves, which is the greatest tourist attraction in Slovenia, more than 36 M visitors in over 200 years.  This is the only place in the world where the underground landscape can be traversed on an electric train and where you get to meet this underground kingdom's most famous inhabitant the proteus (olm) up close. The caves were amazing, the train ride taking us through a fantastic web of tunnels, passages, galleries and halls.  We have been to quite a few caves along this journey, and this one did not disappoint.  After the train ride, we walked about 5 miles back up to the surface and could really appreciate the size of the caverns. This suspended bridge was not a favorite of either me or Mickey to go across, but if we wanted out, we had no choice! The Pred...

 Cape Town, South Africa This was our welcome into the port of Cape Town, South Africa.  First time a tug led us in with water cascading ahead of us.  And wonderful rainbows.  Great views of Table Mountain.  Cape Town is the capital city of South Africa, and rumors have implied that they would like to separate from South Africa.  We have 2 days in this city.  Our first day was a trip into the wharf area, which is quite commercialized and really well developed.  We took a leisurely stroll admiring all of the sights, artwork and stores.  A nice lunch on the waterfront, and then back to the ship for a Royal sponsored "escape" to a local winery. Artwork along the way to Victoria's Wharf, about a 15-minute walk. If only I could have brought this stone owl home! At the African Trading Company, we found a much larger version of my Bathing Sheba by Gregory Mutasa.  We purchased her in Bermuda about 20 years ago when he was an up-and-coming young...