Iberia & the Bay of Biscay, 17 May 2030

Cruise overview

Starting in Lisbon, tiles and golden light giving way to Porto, where the Dom Luis bridge leads to Vila Nova de Gaia’s cool port-wine cellars and the Douro’s tumbling terraces. Sail up the Garonne into Bordeaux, a UNESCO city of honey-stone facades, for lunch among Saint-Emilion’s medieval lanes and a tasting at the futuristic Cite du Vin. La Rochelle’s twin stone towers guard a bustling old port of oysters and Cognac, before Guernsey’s granite cliffs and Victor Hugo’s Hauteville House offer a secret the Channel keeps well. Anchor off Cowes, spiritual home of yachting since Queen Victoria’s day, its racing fleets and Osborne House rounding out a quintessentially English day ashore. Your voyages ends docked in London, sailing up the Thames as Tower Bridge raises its bascules to welcome you into the Upper Pool beside HMS Belfast, one of the rarest arrivals in world cruising, the Tower’s ramparts and Borough Market close at hand.