Year 3 Day 345- “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 4/11/2024. Day 10 of 28-day European Vacation – day 8 of 18-night Northern Europe MSC Euribia cruise. We are back in LeHavre, France. It is our back-to-back day. This new cruise is eleven nights. We have to change rooms. We were told to be at guest services to be there no later than 8am. We were also given written instructions saying that. We are up early, at breakfast at 7am, showered, packed up, and luggage is all tagged sitting in our room. We are at guest services at 7:45am with our passports in and to change rooms. No one in guest services knows what to do. They say come back at 10 am. So back to our room we trot. At 8:30am our cabin attendant comes and takes our luggage. Okay, so we are now out of our room. Let’s see what guest services says now. There are new employees at the desk, and they tell us to come back at 9am. This new woman does explain that the paper sent to our room was incorrect it should have said 10am due to the time of docking this morning.
We waited around and went back down at 10 am. I played on the internet while we waited all the places we have visited in our life. Actually, there are more than I thought.
We are all checked in and unpacked for the next 11 nights before lunch. Our current room is on deck 14 next to the aft starboard elevators. It is the opposite design. The bed is near the closet. I really don’t like when the closet is near the bed. It is difficult to get in and out of it. Here is a video of our new balcony stateroom 14152.
We did not get off the ship today. We will be spending three nights in LeHavre when we disembark this cruise in eleven nights. The views from the ship are fantastic. We were able to see the The Catène de Containers sculpture. This sculpture was created by Vincent Ganivet in 2017. He made two archways of containers to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Le Havre. You couldn’t miss St. Joseph’s Church.
You couldn’t miss St. Joseph’s Church. The church’s single, central tower dominates the city skyline and is easily visible from the city’s port. It resembles a lantern and is referred to as the “lantern tower” or the “lighthouse at the heart of the city”. The tower is 107 meters tall, made of concrete, and acts as a beacon visible from out at sea. I hear it looks especially nice at night when illuminated.
Besides viewing the sites from the ship, we spent more time exploring the ship itself. We visited the Gelato & Sorbet bar (yummy, yummy), the regular bar, and the MSC Foundation. No casino today. It is a port day, and it is closed.
MSC is committed to future generations and devoted to keeping our planet safe and clean.
It’s a tropical island ship.
I have never been on a ship that had so many bicycles. How cool is this?
Here’s today’s Daily Planner, excursion planner, other invites, and the dinner menu.
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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To view the complete daily diary, click here – This starts at Year 1 Day 1: Living the Dream – Deestimes – Make every step of the journey count