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Yearly Archive for 2010

We’re currently at the Venice Marco Polo airport, awaiting our outbound flight to Tampa. We should be boarding in about 60 minutes. Disembarkation was very smooth this morning. We took a taxi to the airport, which was both cheap (45 euro vs. HAL’s $79 per person charge) and easy (we went from our cabin on […]

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We arrived back in Venice tonight. It’s a very warm and humid evening (getting us ready for home). As we’d been in Venice already and had to pack (etc.), I couldn’t have imagined venturing out into the sweltering, sticky heat. I plan to write my cruise review on the plane tomorrow and also organize most […]

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Cruise Day #7 — Lunch

Since our good friend Dick does such a great job of describing his culinary adventures when traveling, I thought I’d provide some snaps of my lunch today in the Pinnacle Grill. I had the five onion soup, antipasto platter, blue cheese crusted filet mignon, and orange-lime panna cotta (not nearly as good as Dick’s). Given […]

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This morning we awoke by 5:30 with a plan to “touch base” in Slovenia by taking a taxi to and from the small town of Sezana. Clearly, in doing so, we won’t be doing Slovenia justice. But, at the same time, this wasn’t our original plan, and I fully expect we will return. At present, […]

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This morning we dropped anchor offshore of Split, Croatia. Tendering operations began around 8am, and Libby and I were ashore by 9:00. On the tender, we met a couple of nice people from Texas… one of whom was also disappointed about missing San Marino (she’s also interested in hitting 100 countries, current count = 68). […]

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