We were up early and off the boat by 8am. We met our driver but, for some reason, their van wasn't big enough for 16 so we had to wait while they exchanged it. Losing about 45 minutes, we headed out to visit Pompeii. Turns out it is located about a half hour away so we got there early enough and started our tour with a special Pompeii guide. Very interesting. The town has been under excavation for over 150 years and very well preserved because of the 20&#...

We are touring Rome today. It's like the most important city in Italy with tons of history and so many neat attractions to see. We left on our tour with the group from dinner last night. The driver met us at 8 in the morning and we left Civitavecchia, Italy. This is the closest port to Rome and where all the cruise ships dock. Unfortunately, it's a 90 minute drive into Rome and another 90 back again with lots of traffic at both ends. Our ship is in p...

Today is a scheduled sea day and Mom was looking forward to organizing her luggage, taking a nap, a latte, good book, whatever. Well, she got all that. We just hung out on the ship. I wrote some on the blog. As planned, we met Rod & Corrina and her parents for a nice dinner in the dining room. Tonight the featured Baked Alaska. Then we all left and went to the Dancing with the Stars show. Here is where guests are invited to dance with ship show dancers and ...

So we went to the island of Corfu. We got there at the usual time of around 8am and they started disembarking soon after. We had no official tour set up for this port so we just took the ship shuttle offered and went to the town. The bus dropped us off right next to an old fort sitting on a point offering some sort of protection to the town in days past. You could walk all the way to the top for a great vantage point of the town but Mom said no to that. So I...

With a quick breakfast , just cereal and coffee for me and eggs and oatmeal for Mom, we headed out at 8 am on the tender for a tour of Kotor and Budva in the country of Montenegro. This country along with Serbia and Croatia all used to be part of the old country of Yugoslavia. Our tour begins with a half hour drive to the old town of Budva, right on the Mediterranean. It's an old walled city dating back over a thousand years. We arrived by bus, then enter...