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Venice, Italy 🇮🇹
Disembarkation from the cruise ship was an absolute cluster. People everywhere. Lines, lines, more lines. No one seemed to know which line to stand in, or why. Taxis and vans were not allowed in port today because . . . Italy. So, the taxi I reserved to take us back to Venice was stuck somewhere…
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Dubrovnik, Croatia 🇭🇷
Ship docked in Dubrovnik at 7am. Didn’t have to tender – yaaay!! Grabbed a taxi and headed to the old town. Quite a bit of Game of Thrones was filmed in Old Dubrovnik. You can buy ANY GoT tchotchke your heart desires here. My heart desires zero. Had breakfast next to King’s Landing. Walked through…
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The Ionian Sea 🌊
We’re all still upset we didn’t get to go to Fanis’ party. We really wanted to break plates. More breakfast singing. This time: “If you’re happy and you know it, wash your hands.” The Ionian Sea is a little angry today. Grateful for the motion sickness patches I brought. My legs are sore from the…
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Mykonos, Greece 🇬🇷
We loved Mykonos! No funicular, no switchbacks, no donkeys. No donkey shit. Still had to tender ashore. Still don’t like that process. Grabbed another delicious Greek coffee. Did some shopping. Took another 7,827 pictures of the girls. They will actually like/approve of 6 of them. Mykonos is breathtaking. The bougainvillea are so striking they look…
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Santorni, Greece 🇬🇷
Everyone has decided that tendering off the ship (going from big boat to little boat to go ashore) has jumped the shark. We’re over it. Santorini is one of those places that always looks perfect in the brochure. But what they don’t tell you is that Santorini is built on TOP of the island, not…
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Corfu, Greece 🇬🇷
Had ourselves an ADVENTURE today in Corfu. Stress-tested our motion sickness patches. We took a tour from the port up to Mount Pantokratoras, the highest point on the island of Corfu. Our 4×4 was driven by a gregarious Greek man named Nicos, who told us Corfu is beautiful and unique, but Crete is the best…
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Kotor, Montenegro 🇲🇪
Slept in a bit this morning and discovered I’d missed both fab abs class and the big screen sudoku challenge on board. Egad. I cannot with all the activities on board this ship. Went to breakfast and got serenaded by a flock of waitresses singing, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”. If I’m ever…
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Trieste, Italy 🇮🇹
Woke up to a bit of a situation this morning. We were supposed to take the Venice city water bus to our meeting point near the bus station (on the outskirts of Venice, where cars can actually go) to catch our shuttle van to the port of Trieste, for cruise departure. But the city busses…
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Venice, Italy 🇮🇹
After a two-year Covid delay, we are finally on the girls’ high school graduation cruise! Arrived in Venice after getting a restorative 1.5 hours of sleep on the plane. There is a 100% percent chance you will get lost in Venice if you have all your wits about you. Navigating the alleys of Venice on…