Our last adventure of the summer wasn’t originally on the books, but we decided to tag along with our best friends on their trip to Georgetown, Grand Cayman (and then they had to cancel their trip to move). Once on the books, our kids’ best friends (and their family) decided to join us for the […]
Read more "Turquoise water, endless laughs and back to school…"We’ve been home for about a week and I just realized I’m almost 60 days into my sabbatical. I promised myself and the family I wouldn’t think about a job until September but I’ve started to have some interesting conversations that might shape my decision on my future plans. But first it’s time to plan […]
Read more "What’s next…"When I decided to take a break from American and decided to take the family on a Mediterranean tour this summer, we ended up looking at just about every cruise line that existed trying to find an itinerary that we liked. We’ve been on over 20 cruises in the last 15 years, and have tried […]
Read more "Reflections on the Reflection"The stop that we were most looking forward to was the very last stop of our European adventure. We’ve all been interested to visit Pompeii for as long as we can remember (well, except Belinda, who hadn’t ever really thought about it before, haha). It did not disappoint, and, in fact, was even more impressive […]
Read more "Last but not least…Sorrento and Pompeii (and a birthday)!"(Disclaimer: We were writing blog posts daily during our cruise, but the wifi was so abysmally slow, it would take 5 or 6 hours to upload 10 photos or so. Now that we’re home, we’re adding the photos and posting…) Oh, Athens…I’ve loved you ever since I visited for the first time when I was […]
Read more "Amazing Athens…and Corinth"(Disclaimer: We were writing blog posts daily during our cruise, but the wifi was so abysmally slow, it would take 5 or 6 hours to upload 10 photos or so. Now that we’re home, we’re adding the photos and posting…) We were all excited to visit Santorini on this trip since none of us had […]
Read more "Santorini…Ancient Ruins, Wine, and Breathtaking Views"(Disclaimer: We were writing blog posts daily during our cruise, but the wifi was so abysmally slow, it would take 5 or 6 hours to upload 10 photos or so. Now that we’re home, we’re adding the photos and posting…) We last visited Rhodes three years ago, and loved our short time there. So, we […]
Read more "Rodos…our favorite Greek isle"Today is the second time that we’ve all visited Mykonos. The first time, we really didn’t like it at all. We had tried to just get a taxi to visit a beach, and we waited nearly an hour and were still unsuccessful. That time, we ended up taking the public bus, which was a terrible […]
Read more "Mykonos and the 4th of July"Many of the cruise ships that used to call on Kusadasi, Turkey (Ephesus) changed itineraries after all the turmoil in the country to call on Valletta, Malta instead. We weren’t entirely sure what to expect from this port of call as we hadn’t been here before. We had been told that that sail in was […]
Read more "Magical Malta"Ah, Sicily…you have such a reputation from The Godfather and other mob stories over the years. Whether this reputation is deserved or not is unclear…but the Sicily we saw today was so beautiful, so perfect, so charming that we didn’t want to leave. Any of you that are as old as we are may recognize […]
Read more "Picture it…Sicily, 2017…"