Category: Mediterranean
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Travels With a Wine Focus
There are four pillars to our travels: food, wine, land and sea. This article is all about the wine and why it is part of our travel philosophy. As we began to travel more and more, we noticed that each place we visited we would learn, almost by accident, about…
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A Day in Athens
The cruise portion of this adventure came to an end in Athens. After getting to our hotel super early, we strolled through the national garden and saw the official guards. And found ourselves at a church! All leading up to meeting for our food tour. After a rest…the Acropolis. Not…
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Mykonos
Our last full day of our cruise portion was spent on Mykonos. This small rock of a. Island covered in the iconic white washed buildings in the Agean Sea was as magical as anticipated. With a lovely evening sail away…
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Istanbul
This part of our journey started yesterday afternoon sailing through the Dardanelles Straight. Very interesting as the European side to the left was more mountainous and covered in trees while the Asian side to the right flat and as green as Ireland. Then this morning we woke to a magnificent…
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Crete, Greece
I barely know where to start. This is the views as we approached Crete this morning when we woke up. We were picked up by Anna Maria our Sommelier for the day who took us to the Dourakis Winery in the mountains. A family owned vineyard for a tour, tasting…
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Old Napoli
First port day is Naples. We booked a food tour and started our day walking through old town through the Galleria Umberto to get to breakfast. As we strolled though more of old town we stopped in the Church of San Ferdinando…simply nothing from the outside but wow. Then more…
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A slow and relaxing afternoon is Rome
Today was our afternoon/night layover in Rome connecting our land adventure with our sea adventure. Arrived around noon via train from Bologna, had lunch, relaxed on the rooftop lounge overlooking the city and had some true roman pasta for dinner. Off to the ship in the morning!
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May Day in Bologna
Well this is our second holiday in Italy on this trip. Who knew May day (here it’s their labor day) was such a massive holiday? Concerts, labor unions recruiting, people everywhere crowding the streets. It was a good day to stay low key or at least try. Started early with…
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Bologna…a day of food
We participated in a small group food tour with Delicious Bologna. We hit all the major dishes and traditions of Bologna starting with a propr espresso and cornett. Next up was watching the traditional tortellini making. Stunning craftsmanship by these ladies. Then into the street markets for a view of…
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Bologna
La Rossa (the red), La Dotta (the learned) and La Grassa (the fat). Let’s explore. The learned is the easiest with the first and oldest university in Italy located here. The red is for all the buildings/ roofs. See from our hotel room. And the fat…well we had to try…
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A Farwell day in Verona
A nice sunny day from strolling and churches. First up was a morning walk to the Basilica San Zeno. Then a stroll along the Adige to the Church of San Anastasia. And finally to the Duomo of Verona. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Verona…off to Bologna!!
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Strolling on Sunday
Spent the morning strolling and exploring the city of Verona. We also found our way to the Giusti Gardens for a longer stroll and climb to their viewpoint. Followed by a lazy afternoon.
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Lago di Garda & Valpolicella wine valley
Had a full day private tour with Alessandro which was really quite perfect. First off took us to the castle above Verona for the views. We then drove through the valley to a very small village, San Giorgio di Valpolicella for views over the wine valley. Next up was Torri…
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And onto Verona
Training our way to Verona today on what we now know is Liberation Day (the day Italy was liberated from Nazi occupation). This is a lovely small city. We skipped “town” due to holiday festivities and took a long stroll along the Adige River. We stopped to have lunch at…
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Back in Italy…Milan
Arrived today and spent the afternoon touring the Duomo and seeing few of the sites. It was nice to not rush and simply lean in this first day as our travel day. Capped the day off with a nice dinner at a local trattoria for some regional dishes such as…
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