Jan 25 2012
The Cruise, Which Commences In Malta And Concludes With Two Nights Inside Athens, Also Visits Trieste And Venice Inside Italy, The Albanian Port Involving Sarande, And Itea (For Delphi) In Greece.
The last time my route crossed with that of Maggie Thatcher has been on board Cunard’s QE2, when she went to a Royal reception to be able to mark the ship’s 40th bday, and I’m not convinced she actually is the best marketing tool for cruise ships.
Others may think differently, and also both Swan Hellenic and Voyages associated with Discovery are linking the production of the biopic The Iron Girl to their formidable line-up of visitor speakers.
Former Foreign Assistant Douglas (now Lord) Hurd, who offered in Maggie’s Cabinet, will be exploring on board the newly-refurbished Minerva for a 15-night cruise in the Adriatic. As he was in place of work during the protracted wars which tore Yugoslavia apart in the early 1990s, he could have something appropriate to state when the ship calls in the Croatian ports of Dubrovnik, Korcula, Split and also Pula, and the Montenegran city of Kotor.
The cruise, which begins in Malta and ends with 2 nights in Athens, also trips Trieste and Venice in Italy, the particular Albanian port of Sarande, and Itea (pertaining to Delphi) in Greece. Fares coming from L2,170.
For what it’s worthy of, I reckon Hurd’s a bit of a dried up old stick. Far more enjoyable will be the former ambassador to Spain, Sir Anthony Brenton who is travelling up to speed Discovery for a 14-night voyage coming from Harwich to Iceland and the Faeroes.
I happened to be on Fred Olsen’s Balmoral in the Baltic as he made his cruise ship debut, and I was thoroughly absorbed in his talks on Euro history and the dark martial arts styles of diplomacy.
He worked in Britain’s Moscow embassy in the 1990s, and also was ambassador from 2004 to be able to 2008. More appropriately for the journey to Iceland, with java prices a hot topic, he led the particular Foreign Office delegation at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Fares for the cruise, which visits Bergen and Flam in Norway; Akureyri, Isafjordjur, Grundarfjordur and Reykjavik in Iceland, and Torshavn inside the Faeroe Islands, start at L1,499, is currently writing tagza.com.
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