We set sail for Croatia at 2 pm today , it's a hot day so we all start with breakfast buffet style then lay around the pool for the most part of the day, this ship is magnificent , totally stunning , beautiful, tonight is formal night & meeting all the captains staff , we miss a little bit of the ceremony as we are in the 6 pm dinner but our family got simple beautiful Professional photos taken just before dinner....the centrism is packed as the champagne flo...

Another hot start to the day this morning... We had a beautiful continental breakfast delivered to our room this morning at 8 am, crossaints , jams, bread rolls, hot chocolate tea & coffee.. Yummo...!After packing we tag our luggage ready to go on the Royal Carribean " Granduer of the seas"we are so excited....we have a little bit of time before we need to head to a water taxi to get us to the docks so we decide to do a little last minute shopping, it's so HO...

We leave Australia on the 8.45 am train from hopfgarten to Innsbruck because the train line in out we need to get all the luggage off get on a bus that goes to Brenner Italy( we crossed the border in the bus) then another train to Venice that takes another 4 hours. Travelling makes you so tired ' it's really hot in Europe the last 3 days have been between 35 & 37 degrees.... We arrive in beautiful Venice with sweat dropping off us all we cannot tell you all h...