Over the Water and Back Again: A trip to Europe

Here is the tale of our trip to Europe, featuring two Transatlantic cruises (eastbound, then westbound).
I’m doing the syndication-trick of posting all ten parts of our tale, one post per day, through the magic of modern web site technology.  All ten parts have been posted, so this here post is more or less a table of contents.

So, here’s our travel tale of how we sailed across the Atlantic to Europe, spent a few days there, and sailed back:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10

Ship images from Wikipedia:

Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas[*1]
Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 [*2]

In case you’re wondering why I split it up like this . . . it’s to reduce the load-time.  I try to limit the pictures to ten or fewer per posting, to allow those with slow Internet connections (such as, for instance, those on cruise ships at sea, don’t cha know) to read the story without waiting forever and a day for the darn thing to load.