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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Posted in Italy, Nieuw Amsterdam on Jul 13th, 2010
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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Posted in Nieuw Amsterdam on Jul 13th, 2010
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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Posted in Italy, Nieuw Amsterdam, Slovenia, Taxi on Jul 13th, 2010
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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Posted in Croatia, Nieuw Amsterdam on Jul 12th, 2010
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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