Mediterranean Adventure

May - June 2022

To celebrate Dawn's half century we enjoyed a week in the Mediterrean with some Italian adventures on either side of it. Read more

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- May 28, 2022, 9:30am
- ☁️ 70 °F
- Altitude: 33 ft
- Italy Veneto Venice Rialto Campo San Luca 45.437191, 12.3345945°26’14” N 12°20’5” E
Day 2
Venice
May 28, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Arrived in Venice and got to our adventures using GPSMyCity app to guide us to all the highlights. You can see Venice on tv and in movies a million times, but walking the streets, crossing the many bridges, looking at these ancient buildings hovering over the water... it's magical.

It was rather cold and windy and we actually got caught in a downpour at dinner but it was still stunning.Read more
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- May 29, 2022, 10:43am
- ☁️ 61 °F
- Altitude: 46 ft
- Italy Friuli Venezia Giulia Trieste Città Vecchia Parco della Rimembranza 45.649649, 13.77727845°38’59” N 13°46’38” E
Day 3
Trieste
May 29, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F
Headed to Trieste to board our ship. The weather was COLD and we were wondering if we were going to have to purchase sweatshirts! Definitely not what we had planned!
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- May 30, 2022, 2:00pm
- ⛅ 75 °F
- Altitude: 36 ft
- Montenegro Kotor Gurdić 42.424852, 18.77104442°25’29” N 18°46’16” E
Day 4
Kotor
May 30, 2022 in Montenegro ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
Montenegro! What a beautiful arrival. We loved watching the tv in our room to see how we approached through all these inlets. We were mesmerized on the deck for the whole arrival watching little villages, churches, racing cars, along the waters edge.
Kotor is stunning! Built right up to the mountain, with wall leading up to the look out high above the city (we wimped out on the 1300 steps to get up there!). It's a beautiful, medieval, walled city, alive with commerce and great food.
We went on a food and history tour and our guide was amazing. He is born and raised in Kotor and explained the whole history of Yugoslavia to us in a better way than ever heard before, we talked about the tradition of Slavs and the food history that connects us all. He was so proud of his home and so gracious in sharing it. It was fun walking through the city and people calling out to him and vice versa.
The departure and watching the sunset from the deck was equally beautiful!Read more
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- May 31, 2022, 10:00am
- ☀️ 72 °F
- Altitude: 62 ft
- Greece Ionian Islands Corfu 39.623657, 19.92343639°37’25” N 19°55’24” E
Day 5
Corfu, Greece
May 31, 2022 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Corfu! The first of our Greek Isles.
We chose to do a hop on hop off so we could get around to see a little more of the island than just the port.
We got to this area with a really long, low bridge over the water I would have loved to have walked but we didn't have a ton of time.
In town, we browsed and wandered and walked a lot just to take in the stunning views.
The water was so clear and there were so many boats.
Bill bought Dawn a beautiful silver bracelet and earrings to remember the island.Read more
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- Jun 1, 2022, 1:30pm
- 🌬 77 °F
- Altitude: 315 ft
- Greece South Aegean Santorini Éxo Goniá Santorini 36.407112, 25.45666336°24’26” N 25°27’24” E
Day 6
Santorini
June 1, 2022 in Greece ⋅ 🌬 77 °F
Santorini!
There is a reason this is the iconic Greek Island - it is stunning! It's rich and stark and captivating. Everywhere you look is something else beautiful.
We decided on a tour that would get us each end of the long island and give us a little more perspective. Plus, it included an awesome plate-breaking lunch, so how could that be wrong?
The island was crowded, not just with our ship, but others and I think we would love to come back and spend more time really exploring. This was a great scratch the surface trip!Read more
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- Jun 2, 2022, 7:00am
- 🌬 72 °F
- Altitude: 285 ft
- Greece South Aegean Mykonos Ano Mera 37.451394, 25.39231537°27’5” N 25°23’32” E
Day 7
Mykonos
June 2, 2022 in Greece ⋅ 🌬 72 °F
Mykonos is apparently the party island and back in the day was a gay hang out. Now it is pretty much all touristy, but the tiny, cobble, winding roads were so charming and the water is absolutely stunning.Read more
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- Jun 2, 2022, 9:00am
- 🌬 73 °F
- Altitude: 16 ft
- Greece South Aegean Mykonos Aleomantra Archaeological Site of Delos 37.399746, 25.2682637°23’59” N 25°16’6” E
Day 7
Delos
June 2, 2022 in Greece ⋅ 🌬 73 °F
We took an excursion from Mykonos over to Delos to see the ruins from 3000 BC that are amazingly intact in many places.
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- Jun 4, 2022, 11:00am
- ⛅ 82 °F
- Altitude: 33 ft
- Croatia Zadarska Županija Brodarica Uvala Gizi 44.116859, 15.23532644°7’1” N 15°14’7” E
Day 9
Zadar, Croatia
June 4, 2022 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Zadar, Croatia. We were originally supposed to go to Drubrovnik but I am so glad we got shifted. Zadar was beautiful. Charming streets, beautiful views, friendly people. Cherries are a thing and our guide bought a bag and fed us throughout the walk.
The sea organ is amazing.. we could have just sat there enjoying the view and listening to the organ for hours.Read more
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- Jun 5, 2022, 8:00am
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 46 ft
- Italy Friuli Venezia Giulia Trieste Città Vecchia Parco della Rimembranza 45.649649, 13.77727845°38’59” N 13°46’38” E
Day 10
Trieste
June 5, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Rude ending to our cruise. Rather than docking in town, the ship docked at this industrial yard and we had to get bussed back to the heart of town. It felt like "well, we got all we could out of you - now off with you!"

We finally got a taxi to get us to the airport where we were picking up our rental car. However, the rental place wasn't open yet and it wasn't really clear if it was actually GOING to open. Eventually it did and Bill dusted off his manual driving skills and tackled approximately 14000 traffic circles over the next many days.

While waiting for the taxi there were all these lamborghinis that we were hoping we got to drive!Read more
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- Jun 5, 2022, 2:00pm
- ☁️ 90 °F
- Altitude: 217 ft
- Italy Tuscany Florence Fontana del Nettuno 43.769871, 11.25557643°46’12” N 11°15’20” E
Day 10
Florence
June 5, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 90 °F
We did Florence like a boss! Dawn had found a parking garage near St. Mark's, navigated us there and then over the next 4 - 5 hours, we did as much of Florence as you possibly could in such a short timeframe!
It was sooo hot that day, but we powered through and saw so many amazing places, and also sat with a beer in awe of St. Mark's. Definitely need to go back!Read more
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