We Want to See the Whole World

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this but we continued to ask for Zandro and Ferdinand’s section at dinner throughout the cruise. They were fantastic and we said our goodbyes at that last night in MDR. Zandro is being promoted and we totally understand why! At breakfast on debarkation day we sat outside of the Windjammer buffet and ran into Ferdinand one last time. He said his crew card lets him on any ship owned by Royal to take a look at it (symphony of seas and a pullmanter ship were in port. He said he could go on either) Symphony basking in the sun: Debarkation was by far the easiest we’ve ever had. Our number was called half an hour early and we walked off the ship. Did you think we were done? Nope not yet. For our hotel post cruise I think I cancelled and booked about 3 different hotels. I just couldn’t make up my mind. Again I decided to splurge a little and took a friend’s advice and booked us at Albergo del Senato using a promo code from their website and...

When the bus dropped us off back at port we set out to explore the town. We went up into residential areas...school kids were walking home, men were standing on the corners having a smoke and chatting, corner veggie stands with people picking up veggies for the night’ dinner... It wasn't really a cold day, but it was quite windy.  I was in jeans and a jacket for most of it. We stumbled (literally stumbled) into Galleria Umberto, the world's oldest shopping mall, and our jaws dropped at the sheer beauty and architecture of it. signs on the non tourist streets of Naples: We were growing hungry again so headed back to the shopping area to find that classic Naples pizza for me. We tried 2 different places, but both were disappointing to be honest. We made our way back to the ship and were going to check out Castle Nuovo, erected in 1279, but decided to just walk around the exterior. back at the ship: I can't quite put it in...