Sailing on BALMORAL to PORTUGAL and MOROCCO

A group of us went on a 10 night cruise to

La Coruna, Casablanca, Gibraltar, Cadiz and Lisbon

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We had a great club outing to inspect “Balmoral” before we decided on this cruise sailing from Southampton. We set off on a bright sunny day when our friendly coach driver picked us up from each home and delivered us safely to the ship. Once on board our cases were waiting in our cabin. Oh joy, no flying, no luggage problems!

A very successful and enjoyable holiday being blessed with good weather other than some rain at Lisbon and  moderate to calm seas. A day sailing took us to our first port of call La Coruna,  where many of us visited Santiago de Compostela before sailing in the sun to fantastic Casablanca.

On board we had great food, superb entertainment including live events by the Archers' and Agatha Christie teams and we met many new friends. We had a brilliant day to celebrate the Royal Wedding when Fred Olsen's crew gave us a superb day. We even won the quiz one evening,  Jim, our President, had an official Probus birthday on board (maybe an excuse to have another celebration!), we entered in the spirit on the Western evening and had a Probus gathering.

It was a pity that it rained for part of our time in Lisbon but that didn't damper the enjoyable and interesting holiday, For the journey home our coach met us at the ship's side in Southampton ready to deliver us all  back to our homes before lunch.

A few photos:

TOP ROW coach on the outward journey,  our group on the stairs,      Casablanca

BOTTOM   Western evening,       British evening               Jims birthday