Falmouth, UK

Kevin and I flew to London on a Wednesday night, got in on a Thursday, and took a bus to Southampton for the night. We wanted to get everywhere we needed to be a day early to make sure we didn't miss the boat, because we opted for the zero insurance plan. Maybe not the smartest idea, but it worked for us.


Southampton was really cute (sorry, no pics). We stayed in a hotel on my Continental miles that was nice, but had no "lift". We had about four bags at 50 lbs each to get up to the third floor. Good thing Kevin's so buff. That night we found VERY local pub, woke up the next day and walked the town for a few hours, and then got on the Crown Princess for our two week vacation!


Our first port was Falmouth, UK in the Cornwall area. I didn't do as much research on this town as I did some of the others, so I wasn't sure what to expect. It was really small, but nice. We pretty much just walked all day up and down hills checking things out until our legs felt like they were going to fall off (a common theme on our vacation) and then went and sat at a pub by the water and people watched. There was a castle up on one of the hills that we hiked up to. It was closed to the public for a wedding. Nice.

This is how people have to get on and off their boats depending on where the tide is.
Dad, new idea for the boathouse?!

Kevin and I outside of the closed castle. But we were able to walk around through all of the moats.

And this would be the line we had to stand in for an hour to get back on the boat. We met the guy who used to own Waste Management and he and his wife kept us entertained.

Falmouth was a good town to start our cruise in. It gave us a day to just kind of relax and not feel like we had to see it all after the traveling and getting settled on the boat.

Off to Dublin!