CRUISE OF THE WEEK
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Beat the rain and sail into the sun and warmth. Unpack once, then wake up somewhere new each morning for thirty-one nights. Skip the stress of multiple flights and airport queues and enjoy a seamless journey where you travel in comfort, see more destinations and experience exceptional value all in one effortless holiday.

In November, the Mediterranean does something no one tells you about: it becomes itself again. The streets that were crowded in August are now open, walkable, genuinely enjoyable. The temperatures across Greece and Croatia and the western Mediterranean remain warm - properly warm, pleasantly warm, the kind that makes an afternoon in a Corfiot café feel like the best decision you've made all year.

This voyage from London Tilbury takes you deep into that world. You can ride a cable car above the terracotta rooftops of Dubrovnik at the hour when the city looks most impossibly beautiful. You can row a small boat across an underground lake in Cephalonia, with shafts of daylight cutting down through a collapsed cave roof and bouncing off water so clear it seems lit from within. You can walk through the UNESCO-listed medina of Tetouan in Morocco, past stalls of spice and pastry and handmade leather. You can eat your way through Corfu's Old Town on a gastronomy walk that covers freshly baked savoury pies, honey-soaked loukoumades and kumquat liqueur. You can stand at the edge of Krka's waterfalls in Croatia, listening to the sound of the river, entirely at peace.

CRUISE HIGHLIGHTS

Ceuta, Morocco  
Forty kilometres into Morocco, Tetouan waits. The Gem of the Rif Mountains.

One of the most beautiful and most authentic towns in the country, its UNESCO-listed Medina is a living document of Moroccan culture: narrow alleyways that twist and open and twist again; markets heaped with produce harvested that morning - figs and cumin and orange blossom and cinnamon in quantities that fill the air; stalls of handmade leather, embroidered fabric and spiced pastry. 

La Goulette, Tunisia 
Head to the spectacular Roman ruins of Carthage — once a powerful rival to Rome, later destroyed, rebuilt, and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Spread across a hillside above the Gulf of Tunis, it’s one of the Mediterranean’s greatest archaeological treasures. Explore the Tophet, one of the ancient world’s most sacred sites, and the vast Antonine Baths, built between 145 and 165 AD and still impressive even in partial ruin. Don’t miss Byrsa Hill, where ancient streets and remains reveal a history on a scale that’s hard to comprehend. 

From Carthage, it’s just a 15-minute drive to Sidi Bou Said — one of Tunisia’s most enchanting villages. Famous for its whitewashed houses and vivid blue shutters, it sits perched high on a cliff overlooking the gulf.

Argostoli, Cephalonia  
Among the most beautiful of Greece's islands, travel north from Argostoli, winding through the island’s lush interior before emerging at the clifftop viewpoint above Myrtos Beach — consistently ranked among the most spectacular in Europe. Towering white limestone cliffs plunge into water that shifts from bright turquoise to deep cobalt blue. The view looks almost unreal. It isn’t. 

Next comes Assos, a postcard-perfect village set on a narrow peninsula, where pastel-coloured houses sit beneath cypress and pine trees, framed by the glittering sea. Enjoy free time to wander the waterfront, pause for a coffee, or simply sit and take in the calm.

Or visit the extraordinary Melissani Lake. Enter through a tunnel and step into a hidden underground world: a cave lake partially open to the sky, where sunlight pours through the collapsed roof and turns the water into shimmering glass.

Corfu, Greece
The Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for reasons that become immediately apparent when you walk through the Bonati Arch: Venetian façades, stone arcades, narrow lanes that open unexpectedly into elegant squares, centuries of Hellenic, Venetian, French and British influence layered into a townscape unlike anywhere else in Greece. 

This gastronomy walk is the best possible introduction to what the island actually tastes like. At a local delicatessen: noumboulo, Corfu's extraordinary aromatic cured pork, alongside regional cheeses, olives and savoury specialities. At a traditional bakery: freshly baked pies filled with cheese, spinach or vegetables. Then warm honey-soaked loukoumades - a Greek dessert that is simultaneously humble and irresistible. Then a tasting of kumquat liqueur, one of the island's most distinctive products and one that rewards patient attention. 

Dubrovnik, Croatia
The view from the top of Mount Srđ - above Dubrovnik, accessible by cable car - belongs on any list of the great European vistas. The city below: terracotta rooftops, the ancient walls, the Stradun running its course through the Old Town, and beyond it the Adriatic in shades that shift between green and blue depending on the light and the hour.

After the cable car descent, a walk brings you to the gates of the Old Town itself. A guided orientation tour introduces the walls, the Rector's Palace, the Franciscan monastery and the particular story of Dubrovnik - a city that was an independent republic for centuries, and that carries itself with the quiet confidence of somewhere that knows its own worth.  

Split, Croatia
Krka National Park is one of those places that earns its reputation entirely on its own terms. Named after the river that cuts through it, the park is a landscape of cascading waterfalls, crystal-clear pools, lush riverbank vegetation and the particular quality of silence that only really exists in places where the only sound is moving water. 

The journey from Split passes through the Dalmatian countryside - coastal hills, stone villages, the Adriatic appearing and disappearing through the trees - before the park opens up around you. Skradinski Buk, the centrepiece waterfall, is where crystal-clear water tumbles over a long series of limestone steps in a display that is simultaneously powerful and extraordinarily delicate. A traditional watermill and the Ethnological Museum add cultural depth to a day.