Tony greeted us with a "Kalimera" almost as warm as the morning Rhodes sun. What a beautiful place! We drove around the bay to the marina where we saw the site of our second wonder of the ancient world this trip, the foot rests of the Colossus. Today the home of the two mascots of the Rodos people, the Male and Female Deer. Its also the home of the largest church in Rhodes with such an impressive interior the kids converted to catholicism on the spot! While Gab a...

I felt proud for getting the kids into bed by 9:30 last night but that still wasn't enough, I Had to drag Emerson from her oillow at 7:30 this morning. We entered Kusadasi early so had time for a Turksih tea before kicking off our tour. We met up with our guide and driver in a huge 15 seater just for the four of us, the kids loved the sprawling space :)We headed straight to the House of the Virgin Mary, passing the Adapark (Wet 'n Wild) where we had to fe...

We docked early this morning but after too much fun last night the kids had to be dragged out of bed. Our guide George, of George's Taxis (I'm guessing there are a few George's that work there) picked us up at the gate and gave us a quick tour of the Port of Zea before heading up to the Acropolis. Once at the foot of the Acropolis we met our tour guide, Dora. A teacher who has gone on to do her doctorate in Greek history we couldn't have been in b...

We woke late to a thundery grey and raining Venice. By the time we'd packed up and got our gear to the courtyard rain had stopped so we headed to Florian for a final breakfast. Delicious and the perfect way to farewell Venice - we were there to 12pm so I even got to have a final Venician bier.The vaporetto ride was bumpy enough to be exciting on it's own, add in the Disney anticipation and we were all jumping out of our skin. In no time we were clutching ...

Smashing weather again allowed us to have breakfast overlooking a canal in the morning, followed by a Gondola ride around the Rialto side of the island The kids and I headed off to check out the Campanile tower while Gab had some shipping time only to see a massive queue 5 times larger than the day before. We flipped our plans and queued for the Bascilica. With the Sunday morning service going on we headed up the STEEP steps to the museum halls and terraces.Above...