ITINERARY & AGENDA

Welcome Back, which means you’re still as curious as we remember, or else you would have rolled your eyes at the last post and begun binge-watching reruns of the Breaking Bad, or continued your game of Ma Jong, or whatever.

So, here’s the Deal about when, what, how and more importantly what to wear… where. 

Since you can never get enough of Venice [or so they say] we all fly into Venice 2 days ahead of the Cruise to tour around and catch up on what we didn't get to the last time around. What we don’t see then we'll fill in on the layover between cruises.

Chucky found a GREAT AirBnB “Family Suite” {2Br/2Ba } for We4 on the mainland in Mestre. 

Much less expensive for 2 nights than two rooms in an over-priced aging property on the island and much easier to get in and out of. 

Dragging LUG-gage on and off a vaporetto and through Venice, over stepped bridges etc. is a pain, not to mention trying to get it all to the Venice Cruise Terminal which ain't easy either.

Transportation in and out of Venice will be a snap.  The bus stop for a €1.50/15 minute ride to the vaporetto docks at Piazzale Roma {P.le Roma} is right on the corner which makes this apartment at Via Milano 15 an ideal spot. 

And since we'll be there for 2 days, we plan on buying a €20/24hr or €30/48hr Transport Card. With these you can ride the bus and vaporettos as much as you need, for way less than individual one-way tickets for each.  An alternative is the {Venezia Unica} pass that, for an additional fee, includes transportation and entrance to any number of museums and attractions, AND Free Wi-Fi via the city-wide hot spots. Both passes are available online or at various kiosks around town.

While in Venice, we have also booked a half day walking tour with Nadia Danesin, whose business name is Friend in Venice, the same guide we used in NOWAT TOSCANA who was wonderful.  

The rest we'll figure out on the fly.

Rather than itemize each stops agenda including tours, etc., we'll save it for that stops post.

{As usual, to save space in all posts, more in-depth details about whatever, is highlighted and can be had by Clicking the Blue Links in each post}

As mentioned in the first post, this will be two back to back {B2B} 7 day cruises  from Venice on:

Royal Caribbean Rhapsody of the Seas

{most European routes are on the older, smaller vessels - they save the Floating Palaces for the more lucrative Caribbean routes]

ITINERARY 

8-15 September

VENICE - out 5PM

KOTOR, MONTENEGRO {we're here on both trips}

CORFU, 2^nd largest of the Ionian islands

ATHENS We’ve been here, Tempelshifs haven’t.

Mykonos

Argostoli {Kefalonia, Largest Ionian island}

Sea Day

VENICE - in 7AM

15-22 September

VENICE - out 5PM

SEA DAY

KATAKOLON {Olympia}

SANTORINI {Donkeys?!?}

SEA DAY

KOTOR [See above}

SPLIT, CROATIA  {Game of Thrones}

VENICE -  In 7AM

Depending on the stop, and how many other ships are in port that day, if we have plenty of time in port, we'll be booking private tours. Otherwise we'll book ship sponsored excursions when we need to insure we won't miss the boat, particularly on the stops where we anchor off-shore and TENDER in. 

We've already been warned that Santorini can be challenging, more on that later.

Keeping it short for now, HE has to get on with checking the rest of the tour offerings in Santorini and Split before the pre-cruise discounts dry up.  

Hmmm, looks like we didn’t get to the part about "What to Wear… where", probably ‘cause she’s still working on it so that'll have to be another post, maybe the Packing Ballet, after, of course, HE locates a “fill in” DSW Outlet.

Hey, it's after 5PM so you know what that means... 

It's Dewar's Time!!!

Ciao 4 Now

Uncle Chuck &The already sorting wardrobe,

Dragon Lady