We had a day at sea that we assumed would be uneventful however there was a medical emergency on board and someone had to be airlifted by helicopter off the ship, it took about an hour of the helicopter hovering and circling around the boat. The next day we docked in Naples and travelled to Pompeii was another day that just amazed. To see intact exactly how people lived so many centuries ago is hard to comprehend. We drove past mount Vesuvius to get to Pompe...

Florence & Pisa We got off the boat at Livorno and travelled about an hour & a half by bus to get to Florence. We had a guided waking tour of Florence. The political & artistic history is just amazing, I think you would have to do at least a 4 year history degree to get your head around it all!! The Cathedral was amazing made of local white, green & pink marble. These structures took years to build of course and most workers didn't live to s...

Rome was amazing, the short time that we spent there we knew wasn't going to be enough, but we saw some spectaclar sites. St Peter's Basilica was oputlant with ornanent features at every turn, and there were many turns, it felt like it went on forever, I was expecting it to be so huge. We walked the Spanish steps and the trevi fountain from were we were staying both were surreal, the whole of Rome felt like you were in a movie set the who;e time, from ancie...