Great city. Spent most of the time in the gothic quarter just wondering around checking out all the medieval and Roman buidlings. Check out the impressive ugliness of La Sagrada Familia, See a game at Camp Nou, dodge pick pockets on La Ramblas. Would have been the best port we visited if we hadnt started cruise here.

Barcelona

Took Le Petit Train up to the Basillica, worth every cent of 7 Euros...especially the panoramic views over Marseille. Lots of contruction work going on at the moment due to cultural festivities coming up.

Marseille

Genoa

Boring, dirty city where they dont rebuild buildings destroyed in WW2!

Palermo (Sicily)

Should have stayed on the boat. Guide couldnt speak English, rained the whole time, massive shanty towns on the way to Pompeii, most of Pompeii is roped off so you can only see from a distance.

Somehow more impressive than Pompeii! Maybe its because you can get right up to everything.

Highlight of the cruise. Haggle hard though! Merchants start at 4-5 times the retail price.

Very close to the front so you feel every wave, we booked the other side of the ship but unfortunately got this instead. This cabin only really offers sea views, the other side is all coast all the way!

Just back from a 7 night Med cruise on the MSC Fantasia
 
The ship itself and the cabin staff and cleaners were fantastic...MSC - it is painfully obvious that its a shipping company playing with rubber duckies in the luxury cruise market....

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