Postcard #4.1 An almost full sea day.

 

Today we are at sea for almost a full day and are due in at Mykonos at 5.00pm where we will stay until 11.00pm. This stop we will be anchored so there will be a tendering service ashore. This does appear to be a very unusual time to stop and not something I have experienced on previous cruises. The sea is much calmer today and the wind has dropped so it will out on deck to lie in the sun. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Postcard #3.1 Sea Day Itinerary

 

Quoted from the Costa Today daily.

At 10.30am we will sail through a stretch of sea known as Stromboli, famous for its volcanic activity and for the Panarea seen on the port and starboard sides respectively. At 11.30am we will be 2 miles north of Capo Peloro, the most north eastern part of Sicily, where we will embark a pilot for our transit through the Messina Strait. This strait divides Sicily and Calabria between Scilla and Caridda and is the location where the Tyrrhenian Sea meets the Ionic Sea. A little more than 1.5 km, this strait was once a spot for many mythilogical legends. After our transit through the strait at 12.30pm we disembark the pilot sailing left until we reach the southern tip of Calabria at 1.30pm. Throughout the afternoon we will continue in the Ionic Sea in an East South East route at 20 knots. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Postcard #2.9 Dining

 

There is one main dining room on the Atlantica which is on 2 levels at the aft. Decks 2 & 3 and it is called Restaurante Tiziano. There is speciality dining but it will not be something we will bother with. We are on table 57 and our waiter is called……..wait for it…….Heinz! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device