Category Mediterranean 2015

We arrived at the Catania Airport after about 14 hours of travel. We had to claim our bags in Rome, and go through customs, which was a hallway where there were no agents or really anyone checking anything. We then…

Our first full day in Messina was Thursday. We hadn’t set an alarm and so we slept very late. When we woke we had breakfast. At the airport Rino had met us with a food called Arancini which Conrad loves.…

Before we went to bed last night we took some pictures of the town from the house at night. View from the house at night. When we got up this morning we went into town to have some Granita and…

Our cruise ship started in Rome, but we are joining on the second day in Messina. This allowed us to go a little early and visit with Conrad’s family. It was beautiful and very fun to get to see them…

Today is a day at sea so we took the opportunity to catch up on the blog, and to edit some pictures and get some other things done. Not a lot of pictures or other interesting things for today. We…

Today we woke up just before the sun came up over the hills of Mykonos and we watched the boat dock in the harbor. You could see all of the white houses and hotels dotting the hills above the water…

We pulled into the port city of Kusadasi Turkey this morning. Here’s a picture before sunrise.   Port city of Kusadasi Turkey We then took a bus to the ancient city of Ephesus. Here is the Wikipedia description of the…

Today we pulled into Rhodes Greece just as the sun was coming up.   Sunrise over Rhodes We had an early wake up to join an excursion to the ancient town of Lindos where there is a large site of…

We went to Santorini today. We decided that instead of taking the cruise ship excursions we would instead book a trip on our own. Conrad worked with a team called Santorini Sea Kayak to book a fantastic excursion that had…

On Friday morning we pulled into the port of Piraeus the harbor for the city of Athens. We docked just before sunrise.   The port of Piraeus, City of Athens We had an early start to the morning as we…

Today was a day at sea and we spent it doing lots of errands like getting cash to tip the waiters and housekeeping folks, straightening out our airport transfers that were wrong when we got them, and collecting our passports.…

This morning we arrived in Naples for our last full cruise day. It’s very nice to be able to go back to your room and go to sleep and wake up in a new place. No packing and unpacking, same…