Civitavecchia, Italy: Civitavecchia is today’s port for Rome, the port was once Ostia Antica until the mouth of the Tiber silted up. We’ve been to this port several times so we’re not going ashore today.
I am sitting looking out the window at Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas which is moored nearby. We’ve traveled on the Navigator, also on a trans-Atlantic crossing. She’s the same size as our Ruby Princess but is frankly more attractive inside.
We’ve been speculating on why most Princess ships have essentially identical interior appointments. It is sort of boring; there is no sense of “let’s go exploring the ship” when you first board. Are Princess ships designed for boring people who want comfortable sameness in every ship?
Royal Caribbean’s ships are not all the same inside, ditto Norwegian. I haven’t seen the inside of enough Holland America Line ships to generalize. Oh, well, enough about the interior décor of ships.
Tomorrow our port is Livorno, aka Leghorn, which is the port for Florence and Pisa. We are off to Florence on a long bus ride tomorrow, we always fall asleep on buses so we’ll sleep through the Tuscan countryside. Others love the Tuscan countryside and we like it well enough but it looks like the California of our birth so it isn’t something new to us.
