Day One Hundred Sixty-Two - June 16 Nine ship tours are made available for passengers however we chose to explore on our own. Two ship tours included historic Santiago de Compostela and hiking the Old St. James Path. These were places that we had visited or hiked earlier in the cruise when we were last in Spain. An information guide on shore provided us with a map and informed us to follow the red line if we wished to visit the Old Town. Janice asked about s...

Day One Hundred Fifty-Eight June 12 Heavy rains greeted the ship today as we arrived in Gijon, Spain on this Sunday morning. Apart from restaurants, only a few shops were opened but these shops would close for afternoon siesta. A shuttle bus service operated from the port would be our mode of transportation into the city. The rain had stopped for a while which we were grateful for as it's never fun to explore a new city in the rain. The drop off point allowed ...

Day One Hundred Twenty Five - May 10 Today we arrived at Vigo Spain, the port city for Santiago de Compostela. Janice booked a self guided walk of the last ten kilometers of the Camino de Santiago. We were required to meet our guide in Santiago the morning of the hike. This is where it gets interesting. While reviewing the port information for Santiago de Compostela (Vigo), Janice assumes that we are docking there. No, we are 97 kilometers away and the schedu...

Day One Hundred Twenty Two - May 7 Saturday and all is quiet at the Seville Fair. We leave Insignia early to catch our train to Cordoba. The outbound train left at 09:25 with a return time of 15:25. Enough time to explore the city. A similiar tour is offered by the ship but it takes almost two hours to get to Cordoba by bus while our journey is only 40 minutes by train. We did have a little stress finding a taxi that early as there were very few around as the f...

Day One Hundred Twenty One - May 6 I did not think that we would be on a riverboat cruise today but that is what we woke up to. The pilot came on board Insignia at 05:00 to direct the ship up stream to the city of Seville. The distance between Cadiz and Seville by car is approximately 98 kilometers or 61 miles. I am not sure what the distance is on boat but here we are sailing on the Guadalquivir River which connects the two cities of Cadiz and Seville. On bo...