Whatever I expected of Valletta it didn’t measure up, what a beautiful city! There must be a planning law that everything has to either be constructed from the local limestone, or painted to look as if it is. Build a city from such a flexible substance and ship in all the artists from neighbouring Italy and you have an ornate, decorative city that begs you to wander the streets.We took a walking tour around Valletta itself for the morning stopping at both B...

If all those Bascilicas can inspire you to god, all these Greek views can inspire you to paint. With 3 or 4 liners in the port today the tenders and cable car to the top of Santorini's town of Fira were set to be full all day. We got off the boat crazy early and made it straight to the top in time for a morning Coffee at the peak.We hired a driver to run us out to Oia via Firostefani & Imerovigli for the morning. He tried to tell us the top income stream for ...

We failed at trivia in O'Gills after dinner, but before long it was 9:30 and nearly party time.By 9:45 it didn't look like there was going to be much of a pirate party on deck, by 10:05 the whole boat had come out to join us on deck for an awesome send off to the Mediterranean. The party was just as grand as the Carribbean version I remember from 2012 even better this time perhaps because we were down on the main deck dancing through the whole thing. Jack...

With no-one in bed before 11 last night the kids slept in late. The rocky pull into Mykonos had Gab awake at 3am while the rest of us slept until a cruisy 9am. We had a bus across the port and started a stroll around the foreshore. We bumped into the rest of our party on a little beach where the cousins had a little play seeing if they could reach the big expensive boats with their rocks - healthy game!We did nothing - we got lost in LIttle Venice, it's not h...

It's too easy for these years to roll off your tongue without understanding them. As the time of Julius Ceasar is to us so the time of King Minos was to Julius Ceasar. Four thousand years ago the Minoan people built the Palace of Knossos from soft local stone. They built the hydraulic system to pipe fresh spring water six miles through terracotta pipes into their palace. They built a palace of 1400 rooms, so large, complex and unique that we still use their n...