Our last day on the cruise was at sea. It hurt to say goodbye to all the pleasures: the new friends, our wonderful waiters, the many activities, the fine dining... And so much more. Our first day off the cruise we spent an hour on the train, heading from Citaveccia, Italy to Rome, Italy. We spent the rest of the day in Rome checking into our hotel and visiting the colosseum. The monuments and history wears on you; it's hard to keep it in perspective that every ti...

The cruise is a week long, and has been very entertaining so far. Our first night we met our table group: Tiffany and Derek from Canada/Ohio, Michael and Laura from England, and last but not least, Peter and Lyn from Tasmania. All of these people are absolutely amazing and have interesting stories, but we decided our table would be blog free. Our first stop was Messina, Sicily, Italy. There, we just walked around the city. So, not too exciting, but di...

Nice is a very international city with great transportation possibilities. All of their buses are 1€. The people we met from Ireland spend their holiday traveling Europe from their base in Nice. The cliffs and the Mediterranian come together nicely for spectacular scenery. We had sometime to run along the coast and climb some stone steps to what was left of a castle, beautiful views still surrounded by lots of green foliage. Although we d...

This morning we had to check out of our hostel and into a neighboring hotel. It was really nice to have a tv and a private room, not that we watch tv and haven't enjoyed meeting the other travelers. Just nice, that's all. CeAnn was adamant on seeing Notre Dame and despite not wanting to figure out public transportation, how can you argue with that. I wanted to take the bus, tired of the metro in London (we rode it a lot), but the clerk said...

We spent much time of the standing in line at the EuroRail ticket place, which was where we would buy tickets to get to Rome. It was definitely NOT convenient. Everything was booked, our route down to Rome will be more adventurous and we have an extra day in Paris. Then, we spent some time looking in shops on the way back to our hostel. Back at our hostel, we asked the guy at the reception desk for another night, but they were booked. So, we needed good priced ...