Tag: balearia
A mini cruise on the Rosalind Franklin (ex-Bretagne)
Since being sold by Brittany Ferries in March 2025 the 1989-built cruise ferry Bretagne, now renamed Rosalind Franklin, has been in active use for new owners Balearia, primarily on routes…
Honfleur vs Rusadir
In April Balearia introduced the effectively brand new Rusadir (ex-Honfleur) onto their route between Malaga and the Spanish enclave of Melilla in north Africa. The history of this ship is…
That Was The Year That Was – 2011
If, as I do, you attribute to passenger ferries some of the characteristics of human beings, the cycle of life can be unsettling and, occasionally, brutal. How did those jumbo…
May Day in Denia
I spent twelve successive childhood Summers in Javea (Xàbia), on Spain’s Costa Blanca, a resort town separated from nearby Denia by the looming presence of Montgó, a 2,470-foot mountain which…
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