Day Two - No Other Way to Travel...

Just here not even twenty-four hours and here we go again on a traveling jump. We headed at about 2:00 p.m. to the coast of Civitavecchia, an older port north of Rome, where a bunch of ships and ferries takes off daily to bring people to other coasts of Italy. Our destination: Olbia, in Sardegna.

The good thing about traveling at home for me is finding places and people who have been places before and know their best way around. IN this case my cousin Daniele (a.k.a Jesus) and his wife Luana and little great Andrea, also known as Leonardo.  My cousins have done this trip before, many times, and in many a fashion. This time we chose the deluxe package.

Apparently, you can travel these ocean waters to the coast of the island for as little as 20 Euros each way or you can select, early as possible, to bring your car and book a deluxe cabin for about 90 Euros each way, which is what we did in our case. Let me tell you: this is the way you want to travel. The only way to go! They do not joke around. We have a four-bed cabin with blankets and pillows, a private toilet – filled with fresh towels to take a shower and a spacious closet.

The different decks on the top give you plenty of space to entertain your kids (little ones till the age of ten have much to do with the cartoons from Warner Brothers – after all the cruise line is sponsored by the American company! Ample corridors leave space to do much of anything; bars and a little theatre space for live entertainment are also included. The covered deck lets you enjoy the trip with a view and for the more courageous ones, open spaces outside lets you breath in all the wind, salt and fresh water splashes in the world.

I have definitely counted this as a very good way of traveling if going to the island.  The trip seems to be offering so much to the mind and the experience already! Not shabby at all!

…OK! There was one singe tiny bit moment of panic: when about 2,000 take the same two sets of stairs to go down four floors down to get back to their cars…not a pleasant view nor a wishing thought for anyone…But we bravely survived the adventure, with about another 90 minutes drive in the middle of the countryside and are now in place ready to settle down for sleep.

Talk to you soon!