A look inside Friendly Planet Travel's Iberian Coasts Cruise

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that here at Friendly Planet Travel, we can't ever over-emphasize the importance of world travel and cultural discovery. That's why Peggy makes a point of encouraging everyone in the office to get out and explore Earth's riches whenever possible.

ALL ABOARD: The M/V Louis Majesty

The benefit, besides being surrounded by travel enthusiasts, is that every Friendly Planet Travel employee can talk your ear off about how a trek to Machu Picchu or a cruise down the Yangtze River or a meal of tapas y cervezas in a Spanish piazza changed their life. That's one of the reasons Peggy sent me off on Friendly Planet's Iberian Coasts Cruise the other week. And over the next few weeks, I'm going to tell you ALL about it.

The nine-day cruise aboard the M/V Louis Majesty embarks from Genoa, Italy and spends time at fascinating ports of call in Marseille, France; Barcelona, Spain; Alicante, Spain; Gibraltar, B.C.C.; Tangier, Morocco; Casablanca, Morocco; and Malaga, Spain. As you can imagine, it's a dizzying adventure to some of the most culturally significant and extraordinarily beautiful sights of Europe and Northern Africa.

Here on the blog, I'm going to tell you about my own experience on the Iberian Coasts Cruise, and give you an in-depth look at life on and off the Louis Majesty. So stay tuned, because I've got a head teeming with stories, a camera brimming with photos, and fingers that are itching to unload them all here!