My first cruise was on the Raffaello from NYC to Naples. It was a fourteen day trip and we made many stops. I was 8 years old and do not remember it too much. I remember the port visits more than I remembered the cruise.
I do remember that the ship workers were on strike before we left NYC and also back on strike as soon as we hit Naples. We traveled Cabin Class and had to dress for dinner. One funny thing that did happen to me involved the time change. My parents purchased me a watch before we set sail and every morning when I got up the watch was an hour slow. I could never figure it out. My dad just told me that my biorhythms were playing havoc with the watch and it would most likely fix itself. Not once did he tell me that the ship was setting the clocks ahead each night as we traveled east.
However I do remember the ships in the seventies. I lived in Lerici on the West Coast of Italy just to the south of La Spezia and saw the Michaelangelo and the Raffaello when they were brought into the harbor and saw them every day until I left. Very sad sight.
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My first cruise was on the Raffaello from NYC to Naples. It was a fourteen day trip and we made many stops. I was 8 years old and do not remember it too much. I remember the port visits more than I remembered the cruise.
I do remember that the ship workers were on strike before we left NYC and also back on strike as soon as we hit Naples. We traveled Cabin Class and had to dress for dinner. One funny thing that did happen to me involved the time change. My parents purchased me a watch before we set sail and every morning when I got up the watch was an hour slow. I could never figure it out. My dad just told me that my biorhythms were playing havoc with the watch and it would most likely fix itself. Not once did he tell me that the ship was setting the clocks ahead each night as we traveled east.
However I do remember the ships in the seventies. I lived in Lerici on the West Coast of Italy just to the south of La Spezia and saw the Michaelangelo and the Raffaello when they were brought into the harbor and saw them every day until I left. Very sad sight.