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 […]

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(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 […]

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(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 […]

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(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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Today was a beach day in Ibiza, Spain.  We simply drove to a beach and spent a couple of hours lounging in the Spanish sun before heading back to the ship.  The day was quite windy, however, so the surf was quite a bit rougher than it likely would have been otherwise. Ibiza is a […]

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We arrived in the port of Cartagena today, planning to explore the city on our own.  We’d seen online prior to arriving that there was another Moorish fortress castle here…Castillo Concepcion…so we planned to find that.  We’d also read that there was a Spanish Civil War museum, and we thought it’d be cool for the […]

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We were back in Spain today, visiting the beautiful seaside city of Malaga, which is situated on the famous Costa del Sol.  The beaches along this area are considered some of the best in Europe, but we chose to do a little sightseeing instead (had we realized how close a beach was to our ship, […]

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