Today was the first and only time that the Disney Cruise Line made a stop in Corfu, Greece this year. We had a later excursion today so we didn't meet until 8:45 in Cabanas. We then met in the Walt Disney Theater for our excursion. The island of Corfu is very close to both the mainland of Greece and also Albania and both of those could be seen just across the water. We boarded our bus and headed to Paleokastritsa Bay on the north west side of the island. Ou...

Today we were in Catania, Sicily. We had an early excursion time at 7:00 am so we met in Cabanas early once again then we were off to the Walt Disney Theater. Our day started out with a 45 minute drive to Taormina. This is a medieval town that was built in Greek times and, like much of Italy, taken over by the Romans. The name means between two mountains. It is about 230 meters above the sea. It is beautiful. We walked down the main street of town, past two ch...

A Day At Sea. Finally a day to relax!!! Except I was awake at 5:45 and gave up and got out of bed at 6:00. I did laundry and sat on the verandah until Nikki woke up. Then we spent the morning just lying around the stateroom until we needed to head up to Palo for brunch. Regan met us up there and we were seated. Kat, our server, soon came to meet us and take us on a tour of the buffet. We had a nice table by the window and had a great meal as always. During ...

Today we were awakened by the sound of thunder. There was no rain at the time but there were clouds and noise. We arrived in Naples shortly after we got out of bed. We met in Cabanas again before our excursion. Then off to the Walt Disney Theater for our meeting time. We then boarded our bus and rode to the base of Mt Vesuvius where we switched to 4 wheel drive vehicles that took us up a bumpy, windy dirt road to 1000 feet where we hiked an additional 1000 fee...

Today we ported in Civitavecchia which is the port of Rome. We had a little later start since we were meeting our guide at 8:00. We had arranged for a private driver to take us around Rome today. His name was Claudio and he was from Rome. He took us to his car and we started on what was supposed to be a 45 minute drive to Rome. We made it to the outskirts of town in no time but encountered a traffic jam (that later we found out had been caused by an overturned...