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What a fabulous evening! Hurry back with more, but I never want the TR to end. Just out of curiosity how many pictures did you take? And how do you keep them in order, if you download them at different times?
I took about 5,000 shots this trip and they're put on the laptop every day / night. I put them into separate folders for each day, which is how I keep them in order. I was very good and re-sized all the photos, ready for this trip report, while I was away on the cruise, so all I had to do when I got back was upload them on to the site I use for my photos - I say "all I had to do", it took most of the day we got home and another good three hours earlier this week to do them all!
Tonight I had the Harissa spiced crispy calamari with pepper and lemon dip, followed by watermelon and mint soup, which was divine. I think that obviously chilled soups are a real speciality on this cruise. (Let’s just say I wasn’t surprised later in the cruise to discover that they had a soup chef on board).
Mark went for the azurian peppered tuna rolls, followed by roasted vegetables.
For main course, I had the cumin seared sea bass with orange relish, while Mark had the chipotle grilled sirloin steak on the bone. Honestly, when the main course turned up, it was looked like half a cow on the plate. I have never seen such a huge portion of meat in my life before!
For dessert, I had the Golden Mickeys chocolate award, while Mark had the caramalised Date and Hazelnut pudding.
As for the quality of the food, I would rate it much better than Parrot Cay last night. Again the cold soup was a winner, but the sea bass was also beautiful.
Dinner was very leisurely, so leisurely in fact that it was 10.30 before any of us knew it and the others needed to get to bed, as they had an early start for their shore excursions the next day. We headed back to the room and bed. This was the sight that greeted us when we opened the door. I love the way that you’d come back to a treat like this every night, it was a lovely touch.
The weather today was sunny in the morning, but rain by the afternoon and then dry again by evening, with temperatures in the 70’s. Today we walked 1.95 miles The best thing today was dressing up for formal night. The worst thing today was the rain in the afternoon. The funniest thing today was getting all those free drinks out of Disney! Today we tried formal night on the Disney Magic And the result was it was lovely to see everyone all dressed up in their finery, it was a very special sight. The most magical moment today was getting all the professional photos taking and feeling like a star!
Your meal looks and sounds devine. I personally love chilled soup. I've had a cold cucumber soup, vishy something (potato), gazpacho, and a strawberry soup but not : watermellon. Your desserts look
Great dress-up pictures. It looks like it was a special evening. More please!
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Monday 28 May – part one: where do we find the taxis?
We were awake just before 6.00 and decided to go up on deck, as we were coming into Palermo, our first stop on this cruise. I was surprised at how few people there were on deck, considering that a lot of the shore excursions were due to leave at around 7.00. I had thought that people would be checking out the view before heading off to their meeting points, but obviously not.
It was lovely to see us getting closer and closer to land, although (and I never thought I’d say this!), I was sad that we didn’t have another day at sea to enjoy the Disney Magic. That would have been nice.
Having watched that, we went back to the room for a while and then headed won to Lumiere’s for breakfast, as we could take our time with no shore excursion to take.
We were very impressed when we were asked if we had been asking about getting a menu for the Golden Mickeys dinner last night. Yes, we had asked last night and were told that we couldn’t have one, as they only have enough for their own needs (seems a bit odd to me) but they did offer to copy one and were as good as their word. That was very well spotted from us giving our room number for breakfast.
After breakfast, we headed out for Palermo. Our original plan was to catch a taxi over to the furthest point that we wanted to walk to, having discovered the night before that the city was a 20 – 25 minute walk (or so Rachel, our ever so accurate cruise director had told us!), but when we got off the ship, we couldn’t see any taxis. There were lots of dodgy looking guys offering use taxis, but my instinct was to say “no” to them, but as Mark said, maybe that was how you get a taxi here, as there certainly weren’t any others to be found anywhere else. Regardless, I didn’t want to risk it.
I got a couple of photos at the entrance to the port:
We walked up the main road from the port and it was a bit like Nassau, full of people hawking all sorts of things, like taxis, carriage rides and even sightseeing tours. A simple “no grazie” dealt with them. They weren’t nearly as pushy as the ones you see in Nassau.
I love your food photos! I am already planning my choices for our trip. Definately the spicy calimari.
Thanks for all your hard work putting the TR together.
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: watermellon. Your desserts look 
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