Above is the Town of Positano Italy as seen from the beach The ship arrived in Sorrento Italy in the morning and we were on tender early to be on our way for another adventure and this time is started by very small bus as they are the only kind that can navigate the narrow roads and switch backs of the area. We made our way from Sorrento along the Amalfi Coast of Italy and arrived at the little cliff side town of Positano. This town is literally perched on the side of a cli

Many people have added great experiences to our world cruise including in not any list of order Harry and Peggy from the east coast and Miss boot camp herself Karen who left because of an eye issue and Miss Marry K from Ontario because of a broken femur. People come and go and one of the greatest has just gone in Athens. Sir Wolfie as he is known by some crew members decided to fly the coop with Ms. Mary to attend to some Berry Important things at home though nothing of gre

One of several charming islands just off the coast of Sicily we stopped this morning in Lipari and anchored off shore to be tendered in for our shore excursion that consisted of walking and boating, NO buses thank you! We have been on many really nice buses the best which hands down was Cambodia of all places but one becomes bus weary after riding for thousands of miles over countless days on a bus. We could be considered bus experts at this point able to recognize a two do

Not far from Malta the Island of Sicily as part of Italy was only 60 miles away so we left at 10:30 pm at night from Malta. We are tendering in Siracusa only the third time on the whole world cruise to tender but we will tender in the next four or so ports, a pain compared to docking. Our destination today was the old city of Noto south of Siracusa. Noto is an old city that was totally destroyed by an earth quake in 1690 and rebuilt by the Catholic Church as a planned city

The fabled walled nation of Malta. Malta is a nation of about 450,000 people only and 350,000 cars and is developing a traffic problem. It is an outgoing and growing industrial nation and their main power plant switched from oil to natural gas just yesterday to be cleaner. We had a walking tour of the three cities of Malta, can't tell you the names but it was really good and the guide set a blistering pace which we like but some didn't. We took a bus from the ship to the

A nice little town on a Greek Island with narrow streets and a long walkway along the ocean. Lots of restaurants and shops and a great place to just walk around which is what we did. Only a high of about 68 today but glad I wore shorts anyway. We first strolled down the ocean front walk way and then wandered around town. We found the start of the steps up to the Palamidi Fortress which is WAY UP on a mountain. The stairway is reportedly about 1,000 steps. Dawn decided t

We docked at the Port of Piraeus for the City of Athens and had a tour booked to see the Acropolis of Athens. After all the scorching hot places we have been to we are now done with hot and into Spring in Europe where the lows and highs are similar to home. Our one full bus took us to the base of the Acropolis and we walked up many steps to the top. It is very noticeable that where Egypt has lost tourism Greece has not despite their monetary crisis they are not blowing peo

We passed through the Suez Canal without incident, docked at Port Said at the mouth of the canal for a few hours to load some people and then arrived the next morning in the Port of Alexandria and got on another bus bound for Giza right next to Cairo and saw the Great Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx. We had Arab dress up night last night and there were some wonderful costumes. Emma Lee sat down with us for a photo op Rommel posed with us Sultans by the pool Dear dining staff

We have been traveling through the canal since about midnight last night. Sometime during the night we anchored and waited for our northbound slot at the canal. Typical Egypt there are guard towers every quarter mile and a large wall along the Sinai even though it's Egypt on both sides. We are due to arrive at Port Said in Egypt before too long to dock for a couple hours to pick up Fernando the cruise director who has been off for the second time getting the new ship Muse

Sharm as it is commonly called is a major resort town. It was voted several years in a row as the #1 tourist destination in the whole world according to our guide. It would be more accurate to say the Sharm USED to be a resort town. Mostly it is just deserted like a desert. There are hundreds of hotels and shops and bars all geared towards tourists but no tourists come anymore because of the unrest. After the westerners stopped coming because of the unrest the Russians w