The Crystal Serenity sailed right up to the edge of the Piazza Unità d’Italia, the main piazza in Trieste. We went ashore and simply walked to our hotel the Duchi D’Aosta across the street. Amazing! The piazza is larger than St Mark’s in Venice and surrounded on three sides by beautifully restored Venetian, Austrian and …
Only one day to go, and I haven’t stopped to sit and listen to the sea, even for one moment on this cruise! This morning I’m on my balcony in gown having a trimmed down breakfast of one boiled egg and a slice of brown toast with my coffee with Dubrovnik glistening over there in …
There’s something mystical and exciting about gliding silently between fjords into a strange, new land as the sun comes up. It”s so quiet and I can hear the birds on shore. They are as excited with the new day as I am to be sailing into perhaps my most anticipated port of the whole …
You can “hear the silence” in these cloisters. We”ve had a lovely sunny day in Taormina. I talked my way into the very private San Domenico Palace Hotel, an old Convent that is closed to all but guests. How wonderful it would be to sit in the cloisters – it gives new meaning to ‘peace …
Sunshine on my portholes makes me happy Taormina and Mt Etna make me cry Sunshine on the water looks so lovely Sunshine almost always makes me high Why has John Denver reared his head this morning? I suppose that sunshine and clear skies for the first time in six days at sea is reason enough …