Following on from our wander around Zadar and the look at its archaeological museum all that remained for us to do was freshen up a little on board the ship, enjoy the views from the sail away from this wonderful Croatian port, and grab some food and drink in the evening, and so there’s not a lot else that really needs saying in this post.
A mandatory photograph of Azura is below. There’s an old maritime law about having to take a photograph of your cruise ship from the port as you get back on and us cruise and travel bloggers don’t like to flout with these casually-enforced rules just in case we’re never allowed to board.
The view from our starboard-side balcony before we departed didn’t offer much for the eyes to feast upon but a flat blue sea and the silhouettes of hills isn’t bad nonetheless. Some locals were also out and fishing near the port.
After casting off, though, Azura did a one-eighty and proceeded northwards along the Croatian coastline bringing views of distant mountain ranges and the signs of human construction and habitation that inevitably forms near the sea.
Rhapsody was in the port of Zadar too. A cruiseferry operated by GNV now and capable of carrying around two and a half thousand passengers and over seven hundred vehicles, Rhapsody is of some interest in having previously collided strongly enough in Marseille during strong winds to take on water and list in the harbour. At that time she’d been known as the Napoleon Bonaparte and she was eventually bought by MSC, refloated, then sold to GNV.
The remainder of the sail out was spent just enjoying the sights from the balcony – it’s one of the reasons to choose balcony cabins when cruising – and seeing if we could recognise any parts of the old town of Zadar we’d explored earlier in the day as we cruised past.
I’ll finish with a look at the evening’s dinner aboard Azura because there will always be someone who wants to see pictures of main dining room menus and the food on a cruise ship.
There’s just one more port of call on this short Adriatic cruise aboard Azura and in the next post in this cruise travelogue series I’ll cover what we saw on a day in Dubrovnik.