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Caption: THE CRUISE ON THE AZURA
Caption: That famous quote from Jaws - "we're going to need a bigger boat" did not apply on this occasion...
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Caption: ...although a bigger room would have been nice
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Caption: Having a balcony to admire the view from was great though.
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Caption: The views offered sometimes left something to be desired
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Caption: Getting there was "fun".
The rough sea across the Bay of Biscay was something else
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Caption: ...but it was a lot better on the way home
Caption: Did I mention that the ship was big?
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Caption: Just getting from the lifts to our cabin took a while (so I've hyperlapsed it for you)
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Caption: If the ship was big, the food wasn't.
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Caption: Where did we go?
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Caption: Our first port of call was Lisbon
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Caption: Then Gibraltar
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Caption: Then Malaga
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Caption: Cadiz & its famous slow-running fountain
Video of Alameda Apodaca
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Caption: And finally La Coruña
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Caption: Some days we just stayed on the ship and explored it
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Caption: When we weren't exploring, we drank in the sea & the sky (not literally)
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A Coruña
Caption: Not that he'll remember a moment of it, but it was our son Leo's first holiday. We reckon he enjoyed it.
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A Coruña
Caption: Mostly
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Caption: The formal black-tie dinners didn't faze him
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A Coruña
Caption: But the nursery & new toys were probably his highlight
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Caption: Leo hasn't yet mastered using crayons though.
A Coruña
Caption: All in all, a great holiday where only one of our travelling party was made sick by the ship's motion.
