Day 1 - Sunday 9 July - Rijeka

We arrived a Rijeka Airport to beautiful weather and the Rivages du Monde representatives holding signs to welcome us and show us the transfer buses. These representatives were very helpful throughout the holiday and each spoke between 2 and 5 languages, with English often being spoken. There was a good mixture of French, Italians, Dutch and English holidaymakers on our cruise with the majority being French. The ages ranged from a baby to one 87-year-old lady. The majority were older but there were some children (as it was the summer holidays) and a number of young childless couples as well as a number of single people who enjoyed the opportunity to make new friends on the excursions and in the restaurant. MS Arion is a medium sized ship taking around 300 passengers with around 120 crewmembers. My cabin was neat with a square window with unobstructed view. For two people the space in the wardrobe may have been a little limited but there was plenty of space under the bed to store items in suitcases.