Ville Franche

July 20th

Day in Ville Franche

So today I started with another training session, this time about crowd control. I’m not completely sure how these two hour lectures are going to do much good in an actual time of emergency, but I guess it’s procedure. After that, I grabbed lunch on the ship, and quickly headed out to Ville Franche. We couldn’t actually dock the ship on a dock in the city due to the size, so other ships were sent to take the passengers ashore, called tendering. I started out walking with my roommate, Ron, on the beaches and through the East side of the bay (or so I think). The entire bay area was amazing though, I’ve never seen such a beautiful city, please check out the pics!! Where we were walking, there were some huge estates, I took a couple pics through the fence, and one picture of only the fence, it was just that good. We headed back to the loading dock, Ron went back to the ship while I continued through the city. I simply just walked up as far as I thought necessary to get an idea, and spent another few hours just looking around without really knowing where I was. Got some great pics though! Then I headed back to the ship, changed into a bathing suit, and went to the beach till the sun went down, and then began my quest to find some good French cuisine. After walking around for that perfect restaurant that wasn’t too tourist-y, I eventually gave up and settled on a pizza place. Well, can’t will them all. So, to redeem myself, I ordered a glass of local wine, the perfect match to extra thin crust, ham and mushroom pizza. Following that, I headed back to the ship, got some practicing in, and went to a party happening out on deck 12 around the pool area. And that concludes my day in France…onto Pisa!!!