Australia - Will be the 4th & Last Leg

By this time we will have had 70 bed nights, 44 cruising nights and 4 nights flying then we will be back to our wonderful motherland of Australia. So far all we have only managed to organised for that our 4th & last leg of the RTW 25 is to get the flights from Rome to Perth and book a Riverside Serviced Apartment in South Perth….with a washing machine and dryer!

The Peninsula will certainly be a nice soft place to land and recover from jet-lag after the 16 hour direct ✈️ from the hot Italian summer 🏖️ into Perth's Winter ❄️ 

This final Western Australian leg will just happen as it unfolds. With beautiful friends to catch up with time will fly by.

So my lovely's, sit back … grab a ☕️ or a 🥃 or two and I hope you enjoy all my ramblings, on this my RTW 25 blog !!! ... 

If not, that’s cool … just turn me on MUTE! 💚 💜

Italy - Will be the 3rd Leg

For us no trip overseas would ever be complete without spending some time in Italy, it’s a no brainer, Italy will be included on this trip.

Italy is our happy place where Sandy & I are always drawn back too. In the past we have meet and cooked with so many truly amazing people who have touched our heart forever.

We can’t wait to see all of our Italian friends.

My truffle mate Doriano and I back in 2018

COVID has made it a long time between drinks.

Our Prato degli Angeli family now in its 4 generations

So first we head to NH Savona Darsena, Savona 

This will be the sail away port for our 7 day cruise down the west coast of Italy into Tunisia and Malta arriving into Southern Italy. 😁😁

Civitavecchia - Italy

Napoli - Italy

Palermo - Italy

La Goulette - Tunisia

La Valletto - Malta

Catania - Sicilia

After the cruise we will arrive into Taranto, Southern Italy

Here we will get our land legs for a few nights at the Hotel L' Arcangelo Boutique Hotel, Taranto

Then we Train from Taranto to Lecce about 1 hour

Staying in a few more nights at Historical Suites VVM, Lecce

By this time we will want to hit the roads and just have soooooooo much fun with Italian drivers!! and of course the windy roads as we be driving north up the Adriatic Coast. 

We will of course have GPS (Gloria Princess Storker) with us and for those of you who have travelled with us on the blog before will know she is has a wicket sense of humour! and takes us off the beaten tracks OFTERN.

Rodi Resort, Contrada Mulino di Mare

Villa Marie, Francavilla al Mare

Parco Ducale Country House, Urbania

Agriturismo 11 Sapore Della Luna, Monteprandone

Terme Beach Resort, Punta Marina 

Farmhouse Prato degli Angeli, Monterenzio

 

Hotel Coast ****S, Milano Marittima

And Agriturismo Campanacci, Faenza

That will bring us to Bologna where we will get fast train for a 2 hour trip southwest to Rome where we will be catching up with Italian and Australian friends…small world. 

Our next stop will be Perth Australia 

France - Will be the 2nd Leg

In the past we have only ever been to the beautiful city of Paris. It will be fun to dig just that little bit deeper in the south of France.

So this time it will be straight off the flight from Canada onto a very fast train heading 2 hours south, some 400km to Lyon.

 

(mr. google says that Lyon is the capital for all things food in France and bold enough to say that Lyon is the food capital of the WORLD, 

that a big statement mr G, so we will just have to check it out!)

Lyon just has to be on our RTW 25 trip, I do love to experience different food cultures.

 

After the few nights in Lyon, I'm thinking my tummy full!! we will hit the train tracks again this time another hour further south to Avignon in Provence to check out their food and wine scene! 

The Provence wine region is know for it rose, red & whites and stretches from the Mediterranean to the Alps.

Sounds like southern France will be our food and wine heaven!

Driving around to make the most of it and here's where we will be heading 

Grand Hotel des Terreaux, Lyon

 

Mas de Kyoto, Dions 

Hôtel Saint Alban, Nézignan-l'Évêque 

Grand Hotel Henri, L'Isle-Sur-La-Sorgue

 

Le Pre Du Moulin, Sergnan du Comtat

Le Pré Gourmand, Eyragues

And 

 

Excelsior Hotel in Saint-Raphaël on the French Riviera Oh La La (probably bad spelling but you get the idea.

I feel that it is going to be a great couple of weeks!!

USA - Will be the 1st Leg

We will have a total of 14 nights in USA

Then we will Cruise to - The Bahamas - Jamaica - Honduras

- Belize - Mexico - Colombia - Costa Rica - Guatemala

And into Alaska at the start of their spring so it will be still a bit 🥶 🥶 

To finish off this 1st leg we will be in Canada.

  

My beautiful Sandy  -  Us cruising around New Zealand NYE 2025

Great photo bomb Dan!

To start off we will  ✈️ Via Fiji to San Francisco, USA, where we will stay.

Hotel Zoe, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

The Bergson - Calistoga, USA

Candlelight Inn Napa, USA
 
And the  Beacon Grand, San Francisco, USA 

Then we ✈️ to Fort Lauderdale, USA

This is the sail away port with lots of fun new places to explore.

Half Moon Cay - Bahamas 

Falmouth - Jamaica

Mahogany Bay - Honduras

Belize - Belize  

Cozumel - Mexico

Key West - Florida - USA 

Ft. Lauderdale - Florida - USA

Cartagena - Colombia

Enter & Crossing Panama Canal

Puntarenas (Puerto Caldera) - Costa Rica

Puerto Quetzal - Guatemala

Huatulco - Mexico

Puerto Vallarta - Mexico

San Diego - California - USA

San Francisco - California- USA

Victoria - British Columbia - Canada

After the cruise we arrive into Vancouver for a night before we head off cruising again. 

This time 🚢 from Vancouver to Vancouver with Holland America  and this is where we will cruise.

Scenic Cruising the Inside Passage - Alaska

Cruise Tracy Arm Inlet to Juneau - Alaska

Juneau - Alaska

Skagway - Alaska

Scenic Cruising Glacier Bay - Alaska

Ketchikan - Alaska

heading back to Vancouver its Scenic Cruising the Inside Passage again.

Vancouver Canada is where we will pick up a another car and drive 400 km inland to one of the lakes and spend

3 nights @ Kelowna 

Then drive back to Vancouver for a few more nights

We will finish this USA/Canadian leg and then we will 

✈️ overnight to Paris.

30 Days Till Take Off

 

OMG 1 month to go! the countdown is on, time is fast coming around again for Sandy and I to hit the  

✈️ 🚂 & 🚘
 
I do have to warn you that my spelling has not improved over the past few years since our last BIG trip away … but what has changed is that Sandy has got herself a super-duper new iPad and well lucky for you and me it’s got all the bells and whistles! So on this RTW 25 section of my blog at least the spelling mistakes will be eliminated ... well reduced a lot anyway! That said it won’t stop me making up words! using bad grammar, putting some of these ’ in the wrong places and a swear word or two, I will rambling on & on & on, not always using full stops or just using way too many of them ... and I will throw in heaps of these funky little guys !!! but just for a dramatic effect !!! but just go with it! and come along on another of my blog rides with us.
Just remember as you read my blog … “I write like I speak”.
Full speed ahead, lots of dribble! but mostly without breathing !!!…

Sure my beautiful Sandy will post all the sweet little niceties on 

💜 Facebook 💜 

But for all the nitty gritty … raw and down to earth stuff my Blog is where it’s at!
 
I hope you enjoy this our RTW 25 Blog 💚 💜