Rome
Rome, they say, wasn’t built in a day, and it can’t be seen in a day either. We ping-ponged from … Continue reading Rome
Rome, they say, wasn’t built in a day, and it can’t be seen in a day either. We ping-ponged from … Continue reading Rome
Cruise ships make a lot of money on port tours, contracting with local operators to show large groups (several busloads … Continue reading Naples: Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast
Mykonos is a storybook Greek island. Blindingly white houses whose shutters match the impossibly blue sea dot the island’s gently sloping hills. As … Continue reading Mykonos and Delos
Temporarily leaving Greece, we docked next in Kusadasi (KOOSH-uh-das-uh), a port on the Aegean coast of Turkey south of Izmir (ancient … Continue reading Kusadasi and Ephesus
Poor Athens. Suffering along with the rest of Greece, some of its modern buildings are nearly as dilapidated as the … Continue reading Athens
Our second port, Dubrovnik, clings to hills overlooking the Adriatic. With no ship’s tour lined up, we cabbed into the … Continue reading Dubrovnik