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Hi Everyone
It’s nearly two weeks since I wrote & what a great time we’ve been having.
We left Florence and stayed two nights in Verona – the city of Romeo & Juliette. A cute little town with an awesome outdoor amphitheatre that was built before the Collossieum. Rod Stewart is due to perform there so I think that would be awesome. Have any of you out there been to a concert there??
After Verona we caught the train to Venice and arrived in pouring rain & had to make our way to our cruise ship. I won’t bore you with the details but the whole experience was not pleasant. Thankfully finally getting onto the MSC Magnifica made up for it.
For the first cruise for both of us I don’t think we could have had a better introduction to cruising. It was fantastic. I felt very flash with our cabin even having it’s own balcony. We went to dinner the first night and found that we were seated with 6 others mostly antiquies as Amy called them!!But it turned out we really clicked with them & they actually made our trip. Well with four of them – all Aussies but the other two that we just tolerated were from New Plymouth & were so snobby we were embarrassed they were kiwis!!
Anyway ….back to the cruise. We went on a seven night cruise and called into ports every day except one which was a day at sea. We called into Katakolon in Greece & did an excursion to Olympia which was pretty awesome to see the ruins of the first Olympics but then called into Izmir in Turkey & did an excursion to Ephesus to see the ruins of the oldest city in the world & that was even more amazing as the picture on this blog shows. Our highlight of ports was Istanbul & the grand bazaar!! Amy really loved it & definitely wants to go back but it was too busy for me – 13million population & that’s just the locals without tourists!! We also called into Dubrovnik on the way back to Venice so certainly had a variety of stopovers. The cruise was everything & more than we had imagined – the food was so good & the shows & entertainment & of course the bingo!!!
After arriving back in Venice we stayed for two nights which was three full days but that seemed to be enough time. I arrived from the cruise all blocked up with a head cold so sounds like I was actually lucky cause Amy said it stunk everywhere we went which thankfully I couldn’t smell!! Venice was amazingly more than I had imagined. I loved it. The weather was awesome – apparently we were there for the first weekend it hadn’t rained for a month so that was lucky.
We are now in Slovenia heading to Budapest to meet up with Mum. It was crazy getting here because there is only one train from Venice to Ljubljana the capital and that leaves at 9.30pm & doesn’t arrive in Ljubljana till 2am in the morning. OMG….if we’d gone to sleep & missed our stop we would’ve ended up in Budapest a week early!!! But we got here & it’s a quaint little place.
Our journey is slowly coming to an end but the positives are only one more train ride. As the time has gone on I have got even worse at lugging my suitcase on & off the trains & up & down the stairs at train stations. Also, by now I have not only my suitcase & handbag but also a backpack & large shoulder bag!!
Well that's all for now - lucky you got all those places in one blog or I would be on here for ages haha. Hope alls good back in NZ & will blog from Budapest next week xxxx
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