Monday 26 May 2014

Fred Olsen MS Braemar Part IV

Another day, another port, and today is Aviles in Spain, a port we have not been to before. It's only a small port, but you do dock very close to the town.


Now our original shore excursion had been cancelled due to lack of Interest from fellow passengers, but we had a plan B and booked Sweet and Salty. Even this morning Sue said I must read again what the tour involved. So we waited in the lounge at our allotted time and thought " there is going to be lots of room on the coach, as there are only a handful of passengers here".

So the handful of us arrived at the dockside looking for the coach. We spoke to one of the tour staff who said "Its a walking tour" now all of us looked blankly at each other and a few said " you are joking aren't you ? "
But no, he wasn't so off we went for 4 hours walking around the town.

As I said previously, the town was just across the road, and a pretty town it was. One thing I did notice was the amount of beggars, they seemed to be everywhere in the town centre and by the churches.


Sue enjoyed the tour, but I found it a bit uninspiring, and I do enjoy walking tours, and we have done many in our time.

And so back to the theme of the tour, the salty element was a stop at a Cider bar for time for some refreshments.

And very nice it was too ( and very salty )

We also had some liquid refreshments as well ( well we were in a cider bar ) 


After some more walking, our sweet element was a stop at a coffee shop for a drink and some sweet cakes, before returning to the ship.

Now as a postscript to this, I did check the description in the tour brochure, which just stated moderate walking, but it was unclear that it was a walking tour. So time to rest the feet as it looks like we are doing it again tomorrow in Santander. 

As the entertainment was a Flautist for the first part of the evening that we did not want to see, we ended up sitting on the prom deck in full sunshine, and boy was it warm. It was then the quiz ( no win this time ) then the theatre company with Motown selection.

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