Our final port of call on the inaugural Carnival Horizon voyage brought us into Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. After sixteen days out of the country, twelve days of cruising, eight countries and seven ports of call, our trip was winding to a close and we had reached our final port day. I wasn’t ready. Read more
Leave the gun, take the cannoli. Before our Carnival Horizon arrived in Messina, my knowledge of Sicily was limited to the following references: The above quote from the Godfather, via You’ve Got Mail Picture it. Sicily, 1922 (via the Golden Girls) That’s it. I knew nothing about Sicily. Our previous travels to Italy took us Read more
We don’t often repeat tours in ports we’ve been to before. We’ve done it before, a handful of times, where the tour was something truly spectacular. The beach escape to Seaquarium Beach in Curacao. The Brimstone Fortress in St. Kitts. Daytrips up to Montserrat. There aren’t many instances, but where we’ve done it, it’s been Read more
Legend has it that if you throw a coin with your right hand, over your left shoulder, into the Trevi fountain, it will ensure that you return to Rome. On our first trip to Rome in 2015, we made it a point to take a tour that would take us to the fountain. We returned Read more
There’s this scene in Eat, Pray, Love that has always resonated with me. I used to have this appetite for food, for my life, and now it’s just gone. I want to go some place where I can marvel at something. Language. Gelato. Spaghetti. Something. And then she books a flight to Florence and begins Read more
