Below are pics of our departure from Fort Lauderdale, the Solstice, Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, Lisbon, Cadiz and Malaga. We had almost no Internet access during the boat trip.That is why the sortation of the photos may look at bit like a cat's breakfast. There are a great number of photos and therefore Ellen won't be horribly upset if they all aren't studied as they normally might be. Pick and choose. Even I don't like them all.

 You have to get used to it if you want to be a cruiser. Lisbon annoyed the devil out of me, but I've had a change of heart. Short stopovers can be okay if don't try and do too much.The Solstice folks provide tiny bits of information about ports of call, in hope that you'll choose them for everything from loading you into a bus and taking you to a far off city, to selling you bottles of water to quench your thirst on the way there.The port city of Ca...