Gateway Europe

We did a 2,400 mile Mediterranean cruise with Oceania Cruises and they did a fantastic job and we traveled into five countries and visiting many historical towns. We traveled from the Canary Islands visiting Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Arrecife then we traveled to Morocco visiting the towns of Agadir and Casablanca. Then we traveled and visited the town of Gibraltar UK. After Gibraltar we traveled to Spain and visited the incredible town of Seville. From here we traveled to Portugal and visited the towns of Portico and Lisbon. After Portugal we traveled back to Spain and visited Santiago Spain. After Santiago Spain we traveled to France and visited Saint-Malo and and then to conclude we cruised to London England. I will start with photos of the boat and then photos of the best places in the towns. The boat was amazing with great rooms, fine dinning with 4 different dinning rooms a great fitness center and every night the cruise hosted incredible parties, trivia gathering, lectures by world famous lectures, music concerts and dancing. photos below and in the country sections will be more details on each town visited and here the focus is on the wonderful attributes the Cruise offered on the Boat, the wonderful like the plays, music, etc and photos below of the incredible cruise followed by photos of the countries and towns we stopped to visit. For more info on each town go to the country heading on my web site

The boat below was awesome as it provided: golf putting, table tennis, walking decks, fitness center and incredible dinning and world arts and world class lectures and trivia play everyday. Photos below

The boat had a library and Gambling center and the dining experience was fantastic and photos below

Canary Islands, Spain below

Ok on to the trip . The first stop was in the Canary Islands in the town of Santa Cruze de Tenerife which is a Spanish territory and we drove through a mountainous island to get there and had a great walk around the town photo below.

There were great museums, gardens and old forts and photos below with the boat docked showing the mountainous terrain

from here we travel to Arrecife another island that had was very volcanic in the Canary Islands and we went to and walked though lava caves and then we went to an Aloe vera Farm and photos below

the Aloe Vera farm below

Morocco below

From the Canary Island we traveled to Morocco and visited two towns Agadir and Casablanca Morocco. While in Agadir we visited this huge fort on top of this hill with camel rides and went to an incredible market and walked the town and photos below

From Agadir Morocco, we traveled to Casablanca Morocco and visited the town and one of the largest mosques in the world with a great market as well and great hiking around town with photos below

GILBRALTAR

From Morocco we travel to GIBRALTAR which is a part of England and it was another great place to visit and we hiked though these incredible caves where concerts were held and old forts on top the mountain photos below

Off from Gibraltar above and then we cruised to Seville Spain and Seville was amazing and photos below

Seville, SPAIN – below

From Gibraltar we cruised to Seville and spent 2 days and nights here. We went to the Alcazar Palace, vitiated the Cathedral de Sevilla which is one of the oldest and largest cathedrals in the world, and the Palza de Espana which are all incredible and we went to a performance at the Flamenco which was awesome and visited other museums as well and photos below starting with street scenes and ending with an incredible walking park in the Plaza de Espana

Portimao & Lisbon, PORTUGAL

From Spain we travel to Portimao and then Lisbon Portugal and it was awesome as we visited Algarve Castle, the town of Algrave and a military museum and the beaches were to die for and photos below

from here we went to Lisbon Portugal and toured the town, visited many churches, a military museum and castles and photos below

SANTIAGO SPAIN below

From Lisbon Portugal we travels to Santiago Spain where the El Camino de Santiago route ends up at one of the largest Catholic churches in the world. We saw many people finishing their spiritual hikes and it was an incredible town. We visited many churches and monasteries and walked many a mile and photos below