
Cruise · 17 nights · with Ambassador Cruise Line
Highlights
St Malo’s medieval ramparts and tidal harbour
Visit to Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral city
Gibraltar’s Rock and strategic harbour
Lisbon’s seven hills and compact city centre
Stop at Cornwall’s quiet port of Fowey
This cruise along the Atlantic coast and Mediterranean edge starts from Newcastle and heads south to St Malo, whose ramparts speak of privateers and tides that can vary by 12 metres. Next is El Ferrol, a Spanish naval town serving as gateway to Santiago de Compostela, a city known nowadays for its cathedral rather than ships. After calling in Cadiz and Malaga on Spain’s southern coast, the ship rounds to Almeria and crosses to Ceuta, one of the Spanish enclaves on the African shore.
Journeys
Seventeen nights aboard Ambassador’s Ambition from Newcastle to the Mediterranean and Iberia, calling at St Malo, Santiago de Compostela, Gibraltar and Lisbon, before a final return via Cornwall’s Fowey.
Gibraltar, with its famous Rock standing guard over busy waters, precedes a call in Lisbon, Portugal’s compact capital built on seven hills. The return leg includes a stop at Fowey in Cornwall, a small harbour village not often seen on longer cruises, before Ambition turns north to the Tyne. Sailing with Ambassador Cruise Line’s Ambition, this is a route that threads through different maritime histories and coastal cultures, mixing early Atlantic ports with the southern Mediterranean.
There are no long sea days, so waking up somewhere new is often a matter of hours, with plenty of time to wander once ashore. A chance to see parts of Iberia that many pass over, combined with Atlantic and Mediterranean shorelines that change with every tide and town, this cruise keeps the pace easy throughout.
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The operator
Adult-focused cruises from UK ports
A British cruise line sailing from ports around the country, which spares its passengers the airport altogether.
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