http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/ArtGirl/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from ArtGirl en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:15:45 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:15:45 +0000 Thursday was another chill day at sea. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-398616.html Last day of the cruise massage sun chilling. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-398624.html Our first full day on the boat was a day at sea. We relaxed explored the boat did some blogging and had our first formal night. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-398584.html Cadiz is small accessible medieval and has the best T.I. I've ever encountered.. We stopped at the T.I.and the gal there spent 20 minutes marking on the map places that were closed and then places of interest we should see.She answered our questions and then went above and beyond with helpful tips and explanations. Our main map laid out 4 different city walks each denoted by a different color http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/C-diz/blog-397285.html Note To view photos as a slide show click on the first photo then click Slideshow on the right hand side Casablanca started out with the personal guide we hired not showing up. We waited 2 hours for him to show but he never did. We missed the ship's scheduled tours as they all departed while we waited 1 12 hours for noshow. We have yet to hear from him but I am chalking it up to a miscomm http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Grand-Casablanca/Casablanca/blog-394733.html Note to view larger photos click on the first one and another screen will pop up then you can scroll through them allThis was really a cool day We hiked around the volcanic land of Lanzarote. This is a small island 12 x 33 miles and most of it is covered in volcanic rock. Apparently the island was very fertile farmland until the mid 1700s when the volcano errputed and covered much of the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Canary-Islands/Lanzarote/blog-394376.html Today we arrived in Malaga and boarded a bus to take us to the beach for our kayak trip. We traveled an hour to the beautiful beach town of Nerja and found a little beach dotted with palm trees. It was a blue bird day mild and sunny.We got outfitted with life vests and paddles and then carried our kayaks down to the water's edge. After a brief lesson we climbed into our 2person kayak and starte http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/M-laga/blog-394354.html This trip started with another moment of panic I seem to have recurring problems booking air travel. I checked in online with SAS the day before we were to leave and discover that there was a ticket to Barcelona for me but no ticket for Bruce So Wednesday afternoon less than 24 hours before departure I freaked out just a little. I called SAS and they searched but could not find a ticket for http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-394247.html