Thursday, 22 September 2016
At Sea Aboard Celebrity Silhouette — En Route to La Spezia, Italy
Our RTW voyage has not been getting much attention from us these days. Some of our shipmates, however, have been busy organizing small-group tours … a few of them in ports where we didn’t already have plans, so we will be joining them. I had originally thought to do many of these ports on our own — get off the ship and just wander around. But the more I considered the weather trends, the more I started to revisit our plans. A tour vehicle will at least afford us a cool — and if necessary, dry — haven between sightseeing stops. That’s a good thing.
Speaking of the weather. After our Europe travel plans for this year were disrupted by a family emergency, we were in need of a getaway. So, on the 15th we hopped on the only cruise that fit our limited timeframe. That cruise — with stops in Italy & France — is nearing its end. Today is a sea day, and then we have one last port call in La Spezia, Italy before we disembark in Civitavecchia on the 24th. We’ve had lovely weather this cruise. Where we didn’t have a breeze to cool us off, it was hot in the sun, but certainly not unbearable. A lovely change from the sweltering heat and humidity of İzmir during August.
So what does all this have to do with the title of this post? Well, yesterday’s Britain Today — one of several news bulletins Celebrity puts out daily — had a short weather snippet coming out of the US. It read:
So, see — I am not imagining it after all. The climate really is much hotter than it has ever been. This doesn’t bode well for our RTW next year when we will be in traditionally hot areas of the globe.
I tried to acclimate myself to the expected heat and humidity while in İzmir this summer … I really did. I tried to make the best of the conditions without complaining much ... knowing it would be worse in some of the RTW ports … I really did. But I failed miserably. Somehow I’ll have to deal with it.
Not everyone believes in global warming … but I do. And to me it seems like this trend is here to stay.
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