Day 10 / 11- Barcelona to Dubai and Durban

It's home james. We had an incredible adventure and visited some of the most amazing places in the world, all in the space of a week. Now it was time to hop on our Emirates plane to Dubai, again arriving in the middle of the night - 1.30am, getting to our complimentary hotel near the airport at 3.15am, only to rush back after a brief sleep and shower to the airport again at 8am for our day 11 flight back to Durban.

The World's tallest building, the Burj Kalifah, just peeing out from behind the building under construction in the haze of a hot (30c at 2am) Dubai

Rear screen projection instructions to passengers.. almost like a hologram

Virtual shopping my daughter taught me.. take a photo and send it for approval before you buy. No, we didn't buy this camel, was just horsing around ha ha

Kate-Lynn meets us at the airport on arrival at King Shaka. The journey has ended.

 

Med cruise - day 1 and 2: Durban to Barcelona via Dubai

Homes in the sands over Dubai

Egypt (left), Israel and Jordan (top) and Saudi Arabia (right) as we fly over the Gulf of Aqaba

Suez canal as we fly over the Gulf of Suez

Our eastern Mediterranean cruise for the KFML SpecSaver's Conference took us on Emirates from Durban to Barcelona via Dubai. We had been to the middle east last year, so the flight over the region was impressive. We flew right over the Gulf of Aqaba at the top of the Red Sea, where you can see Egypt on the left, Saudia Arabia on the right and Israel and Jordan squeezed in at the top. We then flew over the Sinai Peninsular crossing from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Gulf of Suez and we could see the Suez Canal, as well as Cairo and the Nile and the fertile area around it, before hitting the Med coastline. Equally impressive was seeing the toecap of the boot of Italy from the air as we crossed over to Sardinia and on to Barcelona, where we could see our ship, the Liberty of the Seas docked in the port. As we have been to Barcelona before and were pretty tired from our trip, we made it to the beach to catch some sunshine and work on a tan for the cruise.

Sardinia on the left meets the toe of Italy on the right

Big screen TVs on the Emirates Boeing 777

Arriving over Barcelona to meet our ship Liberty of the Seas

Beachfront of Barcelona

Barcelona Cathedral



 

 

We are starved of variety when you consider the Barcelona markets packed with everything delicious to eat