Waxing A Lyrical Cruise Description…

From the 1958 Spring Med Cruise Brochure…
In the merry, merry month of May, 1958, weave your happy spring mood into a garland of travel, adventure, and blossoming beauty amid the romantic setting of the sapphire Mediterranean. It's spring-time for brushing off the cobwebs of worry and winter time to come aboard the pale-green liner Caronia and cut a sparkling swathe through sun-washed seas for gay new horizons filled with carefree holidays.

First port of call on your colourful itinerary will be Funchal, capital of the semi-tropical isle of Madeira, followed by a tour of the famed Rock of Gibraltar. Tangier, North African city of curious contrasts. Malta, plucky little island of World War II fame. The classical beauty of Athens, acknowledged source of Western culture and the pretty, peninsular city, Dubrovnik, on the beautiful Dalmatian coast.

You will sail up the Grand Canal at Venice, past the Bridge of Sighs and dock just below St. Marks Square, then cross the transparently clear Adriatic to Catania and Messina on flowering Sicily. Naples, your gateway to a two-day tour of Rome - Villefranche… colourful, Spanish Barcelona, then Palma on the isle of Mallorca, through the Straits to charming Lisbon, and finally, Cherbourg and Southampton, the two great ports from which you may continue your tour of the Continent and Great Britain.

And matching your merry merry mood will be the effervescent atmosphere aboard the beautiful, fully air-conditioned Caronia - a yacht-like vessel especially designed for your cruising pleasure. As you tour your new home afloat, you will be delighted with the truly spacious accommodations, the graciousness with which each lounge, salon, and public room is decorated.

The deck upon deck of open space where you may relax or play under the friendly, heart-warming Mediterranean sun. Unexcelled cuisine - courteous, attentive service of the English-speaking personnel and glamorous evenings filled with costume balls along with intimate parties with new-found friends. In a word, a ship with all the ingredients to assure your having the time of your life on Cunard's Spring Cruise to the Mediterranean.

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