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I'm just packing everything up for my cruise. Eeeee! I am so excited. And I've actually planned ahead and have four nights post-cruise booked. Look at me being on top of stuff. However, it's another budget airline situation to get me to Sicily, but at least this time I am prepared. Which I think is half the battle? At least I thought that's what GI Joe always said.

It is FREEZING in Venice. Granted, I probably don't have the right attire, but still it is cold, cold, cold ...

... with acts of all kinds to entertain it was a great night we always finished our night off with Cocktail at the pool bar and then walked around the deck talking about all the fun we have had so far we were now heading for Dubrovnik and with another tour booked we were not sure what to expect and would our lack of language skills get us into trouble again .

We went anyway with open minds and we are very happy the people there were fantastic and the old ...

... The evening was spent exploring the city streets and trying to find a place that had good food, was near the canal and was not terribly expensive....nothing like that existed so we settled for an expensive meal of pizza which turned out to be worth all the money we spent. We stayed out until about 2am exploring and arrived back at our hostel, weary and ready for sleep.
Yesterday we woke up fairly late (about 930am or so) and after eating a free breakfast at the hostel (such ...

... it is amazing… no roads.. Some little footpaths and only boats of all shapes and sizes zipping around. We then went to San Marco.. The main square in Venice .. I would think on a fine day lots of tourists sipping cappuccino and feeding millions of pigeons… however as it was raining we took shelter and found a place to have the world’s most expensive coffee and tea while being serenaded by a 4 string quartet…. Very posh.. The ADRs ...

After the wedding we spent a few days in Venice before flying home. This is one of the cities I wish I could walk around without anyone else there. I am sure it is much more beautiful without the hundreds of people on every little bridge. It was a lot of fun wandering around, getting lost and then finding a place to enjoy a glass of wine.

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... in Venice we met a young lady who happened to be a doctor specialized in physiotherapy. She was staying in Venice after having been to a seminar on thermal therapy in Abano Terme, near Padua. She described with much pleasure the cures which are performed in that area. We were fascinated since the beginning. We had a long talk together and decided that relax would have been what we were looking for from our holiday. From Venice we caught the ...

... walks or takes the gondola's. We arrived in San Marco Square which was huge and filled with Pigeons. I hung out with Marc and Char during out short free time before heading to the glass blowing demostration. That was pretty cool, we got to see how a horse and a wine bottle were made in mere seconds. I bought a glass dolphin and a neckolace for mom. The dolphin is for me. And for mom, I finally got to go on ...

per favore - please grazie mille - thanks much 3 June I never realized just how different Venice would feel. There have been several cities I've visited in Europe now. They are different but certain similarities unite each in some way to something I know. But there are things here in Venice that I'm not used to. No cars, for one. It's amazing ...

... will give it to them to though they rolled out of bed and made there flight out. So onto Sunday night and we thought we would take it easier as we really did have to leave Venice the next day. So back down the bar and in the beer garden they had live band till midnight and more bus loads of Contiki dudes rocked in. So i wasn't as quiet as we where thinking but we did leave the next day. So it was then onto Switzerland and then the French Alps none of this was planned but well worth it.

... the end of the piazza Bridge of Sighs A large number of people converge to the middle of the Rialto, all holding reservations for the ghost walk. Fortunately, after everyone has verified their reservations, the group is split into two, and the ghost walk begins. It isn't really much of a ghost walk, more like legends and superstitions walk. Some of the stories the guide ...