For my readers who see us often I’d be surprised if you didn’t know (as we can’t stop talking about it!!), but for the rest of you around the world, guess what?! We’re going on a cruise!!

This isn’t our first dabble in cruising. We actually went on our first P&O cruise back in 2013 to the Norweigan fjords and we loved it! If you’ve been following the blog for a while you’ll know that we like to do things on a budget, we eat and travel like locals and we’re always on the go, usually with a backpack in tow. I would say that our cruise to Norway was the last time we had a relaxing ‘lie by the pool’ kinda holiday and we really can’t wait for 19 nights of pure relaxation, waking up in some wonderful spots all around Europe.

What’s even better than delicious food, excellent entertainment and waking up in a new place every day? 4 members of our family are joining us and we can’t wait to spend this quality time with them celebrating a milestone birthday and just life in general!!

So, where are we going?

9 ports in 7 different countries!

Portugal, Malta, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Spain and Gibraltar!!

We really can’t wait and lucky for us, it’s really not that long away now! I’m going to write blogs about all the ports we visit, including our top tips for exploring them in one day and also a couple of blogs about our time on board, sea days and general cruising info.

Until then, let’s have a flashback to August 2013!!