I’ll be honest – I had no real desire to visit Kusadasi. Istanbul, absolutely (which was part of the allure of the Norwegian Spirit cruise we’d been contemplating). But if you’d asked me to give you a list of the 100 places I had to visit before I die, you wouldn’t find Kusadasi on that Read more
We were already docked in Athens when I was waking up, and as much rest as I’d gotten over the previous two sea days, I still had trouble rubbing the sleep out of my eyes when the alarm went off. Our excursion didn’t meet super early (our call time on our tickets was 8:00 am), Read more
In preparation for our arrival in Greece, the clocks moved forward an hour in between Sea Day #1 and Sea Day #2, which meant we were losing an hour of sleep. Except all we had ahead of us was another sea day where my plans involved napping, sunbathing and snacking in between naps and sunbathing, Read more
In the previous seven days, we had absolutely fallen irrevocably in love with Spain, France and Italy. Each day we spent exploring a new place was better than the last and every time I wondered to myself if it could get any better, it did. But we were a week into our adventure at this Read more
Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam. “A thousand roads lead men forever to Rome.” All roads lead to Rome. We didn’t follow a road to Rome, per se – we sailed in on a very large ship – but this entire adventure was centered on this port for me. Of all of the places Read more
