Iona 2021

So into the second week of this lovely holiday, and we start it off with a sea day, between Barcelona and Cadiz. We didn't do too much this day, spending it chilling and tanning! We decided to go to the buffet for breakfast as we hadn't been up there since the first morning! We were slightly disappointed with the offering, as we expected something like pancakes or waffles, but they could offer kippers or lambs liver (yum..?). One thing we have noticed on this cruise is that it is very "British", which should have been expected but it would have been nice to have a little variety. I think we will be sticking to the Queys or the restaurant where there is more variety! We enjoyed some time on the prominade deck, heading back and chilling on our balcony late morning. Afternoon tea was booked in, so we headed down about 3.30pm, where they had a great dairy free option ready and waiting for Sarah! As we had afternoon tea, we had dinner a lot later than we normal...

So day 3 and 4 of our 4 port extravaganza was an overnight in Barcelona!  This was one we both were really looking forward to as we were meeting a friend we had yet to meet face to face! The weather was lovely, and we headed off the boat early (ish) after a light breakfast. We again decided to walk from the boat to the harbour as we believed it wasn't that far from where the boat was docked. How wrong we were! It ended up being about 4km from the boat to the start of the harbour, and it was rather windy, with it being a bit expost on the harbour! We passed the Viking Sky cruise ship, as well as the MSC Grandiosa on our way out of the harbour.  At this port we had been informed in the 'Bugal' that some areas of the deck and balconies would be unable to be used while we took on LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) which powers the ship, Iona is one of a few cruise ships who run on this fuel. You can see on the photo below a ship docked alongside doing the 'bunkering' (furthest sh...