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Today we had the cable car and Panda visit planned so it was on to the subway down to the water front to catch the cable car over to Sentosa Island. Another expensive tourist trap but we went anyway. Sentosa Island is just really an amusement park but the cable car provided a great view and different perspective. Deciding to use the public transport out to the Zoo/River Safari was really a breeze and one train ride and a connecting bus bought us to the Zoo complex. Yet another expensive place, but the Pandas were a ‘must see’ today. Paying the extra S$10.00 for the boat ride we set off to find the Pandas. The River Safari is quite frankly rubbish with little in the way of decent exhibits until the Pandas. Pam spent what seemed ... read more

Off to the airport via water bus at 12.00 to catch the 4:00pm flight to Doha, good thing we left early as Venice airport to leave from is a shambles, the worst airport we have been in and we have seen a few, it took close to 2 hours to get through the booking on, security and then through the gate, don’t want to do that one again. Finally boarded and good flight to Doha. Doha airport is brand new, only opened on 27/5/14 and is huge but hard to find a coffee to be sure. Only a 3 hour layover so not to bad and Qatar Airways are a good airline and would recommend in this neck of the woods. We arrived in Singapore early and boy is it hot. We got to the hotel ... read more

Dubrovnik is another place we have been looking forward to seeing and arriving around 10.30am to find another 7 cruise ships in port we thought this will be a nightmare and it was. Our ship had to use its own boats to get passengers ashore and you would think that they would be used to this doing it every week but oh no it was a shambles and it took 2 hours to get everyone off the boat leaving most of us with only 2 hours at the most before we had to be back on the ship. We grabbed the first taxi we could find as our ship had arrived about 20 mins drive from the town, the trip in was fine and the cabbie dropped us of at the front gates so we headed ... read more

The boat arrived at Pireaus and you know how we feel about this part of town so I stayed aboard and sat in the sun and swam in the pool, while Pam left the ship for a few hours to find a cafe with Wifi and work.... read more

Katakolo is the next stop and we are not planning to go to Olympia as we are a little 'ruinsed' out so we decided to just go ashore and explore the little port town. As Pam has some work to do we found a great little café with wifi and settled in. Great coffee and we spent maybe 3 hours ashore before heading back to the boat and the pool.... read more